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Presentation
"...with the Software in the Library": Best practices for research software management and citation
A presentation given at the University College London Knowledge Quarter KQ Codes Tech Social on July 17, 2019. Outlines the research data landscape, data services and collections at the British Library and best practices for research software management and citation including software management planning, licensing resources for open source software... -
Book chapter
Russian revolutionaries in London, 1853-70: Alexander Herzen and the free Russian press
The opening passage of the section of Alexander Herzen's memoirs which describes his life in Britain reads: 'When at daybreak on the 25th August 1852, I passed along a wet plank on to the shore of England and looked at its dirty white promontories, I was very far from imagining...Rahman, Kate Sealey
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Book chapter
Early Italian printing in London
Despite the statement by the author Petruccio Ubaldini in the preface to the second edition of his Life of Charlemagne, Vita di Carlo Magno, printed in London by G. Wolfio, that is to say John Wolf, in 1581 (British Library pressmark G.9987) that this was the first book in Italian...Reidy, Denis V.
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Book chapter
Poetry and polemics: the Polish book trade in London, 1836-67
When invited to participate in the seminar on foreign printing in London, I had no idea of the wealth of Polish material to be studied and the many fascinating themes which would emerge. Initially, I experienced some disappointment at how little material in Polish had been printed in London before...Zmroczek, Janet
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Book chapter
Italian printing in London 1553-1900
Although the number of books published in London in the Italian language over the course of the 350 years of this survey (1553 - the date of the appearance of the first book in Italian - and the end of the nineteenth century) is substantial, as revealed by a preliminary...Parkin, Stephen
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Book chapter
Printers, publishers and proletarians: some aspects of German book trades in nineteenth-century London
To come to the history of German book trades in nineteenth-century London with any preconceptions is to see those preconceptions, if not dashed, then strangely distorted. Knowing that by the late nineteenth century Germans formed London's biggest immigrant community, with a wide range of clubs, societies and religious and educatiorial...Reed, Susan
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Book chapter
Greek printing in England, 1500-1900. 1. A survey. II. Stephanos Xenos, a Greek publisher in nineteenth-century London
Unlike Venice, Florence, or Paris, London has never been one of the major centres of Greek printing. The vast majority of Greek books printed in England during this period were devoted to the classical Greek writers, the Bible, the Church Fathers, Church history or religious controversy. There were, however, two...Michaelides, Chris
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Book chapter
Scandinavian printing in London in the eighteenth century and its social background
A mere twenty-five items in Scandinavian languages have so far been identified as printed in London during the eighteenth century. Nine of these are in Danish, published between 1705 and 1793; one is in Icelandic, printed in 1788; while the rest are ephemera in Swedish that appeared during the years...Hogg, Peter
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Book chapter
A king's last days: true and false memoirs of Louis XVI's valet
In the 1790s English society enjoyed the frisson of horror at events across the Channel. There were of course more serious concerns over the war with France, the high price of food and, among the upper classes, fears that Republicanism would spread to England. Emigres crowded into London. In such...Daniels, Morna
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Book chapter
The beginnings of Hungarian printing in London
Cultural contacts between Hungary and England go back to the second half of the sixteenth century, a time when visitors' interests and preoccupations already varied considerably. As Protestant clergymen or theologians, Hungarians studied in Wittenberg and Heidelberg and arrived in England via Leiden. Their peregrinations included London, Oxford, and Cambridge,...Guzner, Bridget
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Book chapter
Dutch printing in London. I. A survey. II. The strange case of Double-Dutch double vision: bilingual pamphlets of 1615
Printing in Dutch arose in London following the persecution of Protestants in the Low Countries in the early sixteenth century. Britain in general and London in particular, then as now, became a place of refuge for the exiles. These refugees then clung together for mutual support, they created their own...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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Book
Foreign-Language Printing in London 1500-1900
The fourteen essays in this volume represent the first systematic attempt to document and to analyse the tradition of foreign language printing in London during the period 1500 to 1900. The surveys and case studies use a variety of approaches to document and describe this particular aspect of London printing...Taylor, Barry
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Book chapter
The Satow Collection of Japanese Books in the British Library: its history and significance
The aim of this article is to outline the history and importance of the collection of Japanese books which were acquired by the British Museum from the diplomat and scholar Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929) and which passed to the stewardship of the British Library on its creation in 1973....Todd, Hamish
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Journal article
The novels of Tahar Wattar: command or critique?
Tahar Wattar is among the most important and highly acclaimed Arabic novelists and short story writers in Algeria and perhaps the best known Algerian Arabic writer in most Arab countries. His two novels published in 1974 were among the first novels published in Arabic in post-independence Algeria, following Bin Haduqah's...Cox, Debbie
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Journal article
Whose history, which novel?: Neil M. Gunn and the Gaelic Idea
This article examines the radical approach to narrative that the novelist Neil M. Gunn takes in his 1930s novel of the Highland Clearances, Butcher's Broom. It places Gunn's aesthetics in the context of the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid's conceptual "Gaelic Idea" and suggests that Gunn is also engaging with a...Price, Richard
Neil M. Gunn, Scottish literature, Highland clearances, Hugh MacDiarmid, leadership, thirties, English literature, and narrative
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Journal article
Gaps in the record: hidden internationalisms
The true subtitle of this lecture is a question: why was George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion first produced in German, in Vienna? And the lecture as a whole is about a number of such questions that I can't answer. It is less about gaps in the material record - that is...Summers, Anne
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Book chapter
Fat truck tyres: the notebook as relay
Bury, Stephen
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Conference paper (published)
Issues raised by a 'rap' translation of a poem by Velimir Khlebnikov 'Kamennaia baba'
Chadwick, Brian
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The sound of artists' books
Artists’ books – any books – are capable of sound, whether dropped, as in Keith Godard’s otherwise text-less and image-less Sounds (1972), or, fluttering noisily, drying out, in the chill spring wind, on the monastery roof in Sergo Paradjanov’s film, The Colour of Pomegranates (1969).Bury, Stephen
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Structuring curatorial responsibilities to incorporate sabbaticals, research etc
A.W. Pollard, a keeper of printed books at the British Museum at the beginning of last century and an important Shakespearean scholar in his own right, remarked that one of the incentives to his career as a published writer was the low pay of the curator. So the simple way...Bury, Stephen
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Lecture
The William Dyce and Edward Machell Cox collections of art sale catalogues in the British Library
In the flyer for this talk I called sale catalogues ‘unassuming’ and ‘half-hidden’. ‘Unassuming’ because they often are simple lists of works, ‘half-hidden’ because, in the British Library at least, they are not always catalogued separately and therefore are easy to miss. They are, however, extremely important for the study...Michaelides, Chris
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Journal article
Was Elizabeth interested in maps - and did it really matter?
It tends to be assumed that Queen Elizabeth was interested in maps and globes, not least because she was frequently depicted in their vicinity. Investigation strongly suggests that this was not the case. It is argued that this did matter. By depriving her of an independent source of spatial information,...Barber, Peter
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Journal article
Philatelic research at the British Library
The three key elements of the Curator’s job are: to collect, to preserve and to make available. In many ways that of making available is the most difficult to achieve and so I welcome this opportunity to describe the considerable resources available to researchers in philately and postal history at...Beech, David R.
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Journal article
Evaluating the impact of People's Network
The People's Network (PN) was launched in 2002. Its main aims were to connect all public libraries to the internet as part of a UK government commitment to provide universal access to the net by 2005, and to ensure that all citizens were able to benefit from the new opportunities...Halper, Sally
public libraries, evaluation, government policy, and People's Network
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Translating the enemy
This paper has three sources or “causes”, two of them “prior”, the third “final”. These are: firstly, the translation by the present writer of a fairly large group of poems and texts by the poet Velimir Khlebnikov (b1885, d1922), intended as a contribution to an anthology of English language translations...Chadwick, Brian
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The epic unwriting of Empire: a case study. Khlebnikov -nash edinstvennyi poet-epik XX veka
I was discussing with a friend the problems I was having in introducing my topic or theme. The friend in question is one of the artists who has been working on the film which I will show later. He had read through my text, which was, I thought, mainly finished,...Chadwick, Brian
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Conference paper (unpublished)
How to look after your Collection - A basic guide
Many philatelists understand that they are the guardians of the material in their collections for themselves and for future owners. It is unfortunate when some collectors show a disregard for looking after their collection and dismiss comment with a remark like “it will be OK in my life time”. It...Beech, David R.
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Time of Place: Louis-Sebastien Mercier and the hours of the day
I was recently reading The White Cities, Joseph Roth’s reports from France, 1925–1939, when, amongst many other moments, I was struck by the following passage: The manufacturers have their villas on the other side of the Rhône. That’s where the workers live – not in villas, alas, but in tenements....Shaw, Matthew J.
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Journal article
New Zealand Philately at the British Library
The British Library Philatelic Collections are the National Philatelic Collections of the United Kingdom. These collections, estimated to be over eight million items, include postage and revenue stamps, artwork, essays, proofs, covers and entires, cinderella material, specimen issues, airmails, some postal history materials, official and private posts, etc., for almost...Beech, David R.
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The British Library Philatelic Collections 1998 to 2005
This Paper is the third in a series that has reported to the Society and the philatelic world on the activities of the British Library Philatelic Collections. The first was given on 1st December, 1988 by my predecessor R F “Bob” Schoolley-West FRPSL and the second I gave on 9th...Beech, David R.
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Book chapter
George III and his geographical collection
Barber, Peter
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Philately of the Edwardian era as shown in its literature
As this Paper is being given in 2006 no one can be alive who has any meaningful experience of philately in the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII. To discover virtually anything at all the researcher must examine the literature and the archives of the period. As far as...Beech, David R.
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Journal article
Hejaz: the first postage stamps of 1916 and T. E. Lawrence
Hejaz, more correctly spelt Hijaz, is a region in the Arabian Peninsular that includes both the Red Sea littoral and the holy Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina. It had been part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire since 1517. In 1845 the Ottomans strengthened their influence by taking greater control...Beech, David R.
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Collective intelligence or intelligent collecting: alternative survival strategies for audiovisual archives in the Information Age
Despite the evident prescriptive statement in the sub-title to this presentation, this sketch of the way things appear to me to be is intended to generate collaborative inquiry within IASA and its institutional members rather than present strategic actions that can be applied on return from this Conference.Clark, Chris
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Journal article
Stamp albums in the Printed Book Collections of the British Library
The British Library, through the former Department of Printed Books of the British Museum (one of its component parts), has acquired seventy-three printed stamp albums. These were received from publishers mainly by legal deposit from the United Kingdom and Colonial territories, with a few being purchased from foreign countries. They...Beech, David R.
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Book chapter
Words in Process: Arc Editions
An account of the book artists associated with Arc Editions, a London-based collective who emerged from the artist's book press Circle PressPrice, Richard
book arts, artist's books, typography, poetry, and fine arts
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Journal article
Uses of web 2.0 by UK social science researchers and libraries
This article reports the findings of a survey of the extent and types of use UK social sciences researchers and libraries are making of a range of web 2.0 technologies. It also considers future directions.Halper, Sally
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Sylvia Pankhurst's Germinal: work and play, organisation and the organic
Sylvia Pankhurst's little-known magazine Germinal (1923-24) emerged as her socialist newspaper The Workers Dreadnought was on the verge of collapse. It is self-consciously and necessarily more of a literary production than the Dreadnought but this paper suggests that concepts of internationalism and work (and so play) are shared by both....Price, Richard
Sylvia Pankhurst, poetry, literary magazines, little magazines, Suffragettes, politics, and modernism
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Book chapter
New York
The skyscraper profile of New York was inspirational for the European avant garde, who equated New York with modernity. It was also a refuge for European artists and writers fleeing First World War conscription or, later, Nazism and Stalinism. They mixed with the New York avant garde both there and...Holden, Carole
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Journal article
Great Britain: 1840 Mulready Lord Holland facsimile
Those philatelists interested in Great Britain, especially its postal stationery, are usually aware of the “Lord Holland” facsimile or reproduction. While various references to it have appeared in literature from time to time, its story seems not have been brought together; this article attempts to do just that.Beech, David R.
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Journal article
Philatelic Conservation - Restoration
Carl Aage Moller in his article 3 rightly continues the long running debate within philately as to what is acceptable conservation and restoration. Most previous articles have ignored, or not taken into account, the professional paper conservator's views and experience. Good philatelic conservation is a question of what is good,...Beech, David R.
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Journal article
Philatelic Research - a basic guide
For those at the beginning of a philatelic research project it will be of much value to both themselves and the results of that research, to have a systematic approach. This article attempts to set out some basic concepts that will help the researcher. This set of guidelines should not...Beech, David R.
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Journal article
Notes for philatelic researchers
A study of research in philately will show us that the last 50 years has seen an explosion of publication. Such scholarship has been much aided by the formation of specialist philatelic societies and the bringing together of those interested in the same or similar subjects by means of meetings,...Beech, David R.
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Journal article
Hejaz: The Survey of Egypt book of 1918
Following the entry on 29th October, 1914 of the Turkish Ottoman Empire into the 1914-18 First World War on the side of the Central Powers, including Germany, it followed that war was declared between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire on the 5th November, 1914. As the territory of Britain’s...Beech, David R.
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Journal article
The Carriage of Parcels by Tramway and Omnibus in Great Britain and Ireland
The British Post Office has, until recently, enjoyed an almost complete monopoly of the carriage of letters. A letter in general terms is an item up to one pound in weight. It follows that any item that is over one pound may be termed a parcel, will not be subject...Beech, David R.
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Journal article
Hejaz: the first postage stamps of 1916 and T.E. Lawrence: additional information
Since my previous article Hejaz: The First Postage Stamps of 1916 and T.E. Lawrence in The London Philatelist (Ref.1) some further information has come to light. The Royal Philatelic Collection contains a number of imperforate proof sheets for the 1916 issue. These are listed in Wilson (Ref.2) and include the...Beech, David R.
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Technical documentation
Planets Interoperability Framework Guidelines for Service Wrapping
This document presents the first version of the Planets Service Wrapping Guidelines. It is targeted for preservation tool developers – within the Planets consortium but also third parties – who would like to integrate their tools with the Planets software environment and make use of applications for Preservation Planning, Testing,...Wilson, Carl ; Jackson, Andrew
service wrapping, interoperability, service interface, and web service
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Book chapter
Space: changing the boundaries
This chapter considers developments in collaborative approaches to the enhancement of academic library space. Brophy defined the purpose of the academic library as follows: Academic libraries are here to enable and enhance learning in all its forms – whether it be the learning of a first year undergraduate coming to...Jolly, Liz
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Doctoral thesis
'A commodity of good names' : the branding of products, c.1650-1900
Historians of consumption have perpetuated a specific reading and interpretation of early modern commodity branding, in which the relationship between proprietary interest and final consumer has been privileged. In addition, its primary goal has been portrayed as a means of differentiation in a market of homogenous goods. As such, 'branding'...Basford, Jennifer
branding, nationhood, liquid blacking trade, clay tobacco pipes, proprietary medicine, state formation, advertising, early modern British history, material culture, and packaging
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Podcast
History Workshop Podcast (episode 7 h): Marx's London - British Museum
In this audio walking tour – consisting of ten 10-minute episodes – we explore the streets of Marx’s London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain’s capital. This episode considers the Marx family's time at the British Museum. Guided by the historian Thomas...Siclovan, Diana ; Jones, Thomas
refugee, exile, London, Karl Marx, British Museum, communism, politics, audio tour, Marx, and walking tour
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Exhibition gallery text
Karl and Eleanor Marx – Life in the Reading Room (Exhibition board text)
2018 marked the birthday of political philosopher Karl Marx. In connection with the anniversary, the British Library Treasures Gallery display ‘Karl and Eleanor – Life in the Reading Room’ (1 May to 5 August 2019) explored the special relationship that Karl Marx and his youngest daughter, political activist Eleanor Marx,...Siclovan, Diana
Edward Aveling, Eleanor Marx, Communist Manifesto, Capital, Karl Marx, exhibition board, gallery text, Das Kapital, and socialism
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Podcast
Karl Marx, Capital and the British Library
Karl Marx not only used the Reading Room of the British Museum for his research on Capital, but also donated copies of his work to the Museum’s collection, now owned by the British Library. Dr Diana Siclovan (British Library), Izzy Gibbin (UCL) and Dr Pepijn Brandon (International Institute of Social...Siclovan, Diana ; Gibbin, Izzy ; Brandon, Pepijn
British Library, capital, Karl Marx, British Museum, reading room, and collection
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Dataset
Results From A 2015 Survey On Git/Distributed Version Control At Imperial College London
These are the - anonymised - results from a survey run at Imperial College London in November-December 2015. The survey was aimed at user of distributed version control systems, in particular Git. Before publishing the results I deleted all comments to avoid individuals being identified. The survey was designed to...Reimer, Torsten ; Boakye, Gifty
higher education, survey, Git, distributed version control, and software development
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Research report
A Geology of the British Library
Eric Robinson, consultant to Sir Colin Wilson, the architect of the British Library, and a former University College London lecturer and urban geologist produced a free BL booklet several years ago entitled 'A Geology of the British Library' in which he drew our attention to the beautiful geological and paleontological...Robinson, Eric
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Book
Piecing Together the Jigsaw: the framework for a national preservation strategy for libraries and archives. Proceedings of the National Preservation Office Conference 18-20 September 1995, York
The National Preservation Office (NPO) conferences have gained a reputation for their wide-ranging topics. their sincere attempt to address issues which can be at times difficult to 'pin down', and their down-to-earth approach. Such was the case with the 1995 conference 'Piecing together the jigsaw: the framework for a national...National Preservation Office
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Book
Microforms in Libraries: the Untapped Resource? Papers given at the National Preservation Office Conference held 13-15 October 1992 in Birmingham
Why hold a national conference on microfonns in libraries? (It was not, many told us, the most exciting subject for a two day debate). Since the late eighties, the National Preservation Office has been coordinating a national microfilming programme generously funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation of New York....British Library National Preservation Office
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Journal article
Managing quasi-domesticity at the roadside: Postwar female moteliers and the space of reinvention
For postwar travelers, the motel offered a convenient lodging option for a newly mobile nation looking for contemporary, relaxed and auto-friendly places to rest. In response to travelers' needs, the motel industry flourished; between 1946 and 1957 the number of motels in the United States almost tripled, growing from around...Rodway, Cara
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Journal article
Complicating the story of popular science: John Maynard Smith’s 'Little Penguin' on The Theory of Evolution
Popular science writing has received increasing interest, especially in its relation to professional science. I extend the current scholarly focus from the nineteenth to the twentieth century by providing a microhistory of the early popular writings of evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith (1920–2004). Linking them to the state of evolutionary...Piel, Helen
popular science, science communication, Neo-Darwinism, evolutionary theory, and John Maynard Smith
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Conference paper (published)
Early printed books containing Andean languages in the British Library, London
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
Atlantic crossings: the trade in Latin American books in Europe in the nineteenth century
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Atlantic crossings: the trade in Latin American books in Europe in the nineteenth century
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
Where are they now? The dispersal of Spanish printed book collections, 1810-1850
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Lost for words? The Earliest Representations of the Americas in European Sources
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Accident or by design. How and why did the British (Museum) Library acquire its holdings of Basque printed books?
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Ediciones Vigía. Handmade Books from Cuba 1985-2007
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts of Frederick William Cosens (1819-89)
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Ediciones Vigía: handmade books from Cuba
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The British Library’s collection of Basque books: whose were they and how did they get there?
West, Geoffrey
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Book
Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library’s Printed Collections
Dispersed along the shelves of the British Library today are many volumes that once stood side by side in private libraries. These essays explore some of the most important printed collections which were brought together to form the British Museum Library and cast new light on the individuals whose personal...Mandelbrote, Giles ; Taylor, Barry
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Book chapter
Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) and his books
Taylor, Barry