The files in these datasets are derived from the British Library’s collection of bound volume Quarterly Lists: printed catalogue records of Indian books published quarterly and by province of British India between 1867 and 1947. The catalogues are predominantly in English language with some Indian scripts and mostly arranged in table format, capturing descriptive metadata about the books, including the name and addresses of printers and publishers, the number of copies printed and often the price, as well as much more. The catalogues have been made available through the British Library's Two Centuries of Indian Print project, which is also digitising rare Bengali books dating from 1713-1914, the datasets of which will also be made available through this website.
The India Office Medical Archives, are the records of the East India Company and India Office contain a wealth of information relating to medicine and health in India, particularly for the period 1780-1920. The scanned images are available .JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using Irfan view, read more here: https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/india-office-medical-archive-collections
Images, datasets and catalogue records of maps and topographical views. Currently, comprising the archive of manuscript maps built up and maintained by the British War Office between ca 1890 and 1940. In a project funded by Indigo Trust the British Library has catalogued, conserved and digitised a portion of the archive that relates to the former British East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and surrounding areas).
The datasets in this collection contain a number of thematic digitised collections of single sheet items or ephemera between 1628 - 1902. It includes information about portraits of actors, views of theatres, Christmas ballads and broadsides, Signs of taverns, newspaper cuttings, performances of Sir Henry Irving, pamphlets about the British Museum and portraits and biographies of officers in the South African wars.
Using Convolutional Neural Networks to explore and label 400 Years of Book Illustrations by the SherlockNet team, BL Labs competition winners for 2016.