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Asbāb va ṣuvar-i ibhām dar dāstān'hā-yi Bizhan Najdī
بيژن نجدي، داستان نويسي است که در داستان هايش- به خصوص در داستان هاي مجموعه دوباره از همان خيابان ها- به مبهم کردن فضاي داستان توجه و علاقه دارد. اين ابهام علاوه بر عدم برقراري رابطه طبيعي ميان دال و مدلول، علل متعدد ديگري نيز مي تواند داشته باشد. اين...Sedighi, Alireza
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Āshiyānah-i Simurgh az dirakht-i Vispubīsh tā kūh-i Alborz
به سبب شباهتهای متعددی که میان درخت و کوه وجود دارد، سیمرغ شاهنامه از درخت ویسپوبیش به کوه البرز نقل مکان می کند. سیمرغ، سئن یا مرغو سئن اوستا در شاهنامه نیز حضور خود را با تفاوتهایی حفظ کرده است. اگر سیمرغ اوستا چهره ای آیینی و پذیرفته دارد. شاهنامه...Sedighi, Alireza
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Muqāyasah-i sākhtārī-i khvaishāvankushī va khvaishāvanāzārī dar Shāhnāmah va Mahābahārāt
این پژوهش در صدد است تا با بررسی قصه های دو حماسه ایرانی و هندی، یعنی شاهنامه و مهابهارت، نشان دهد، ساختار این قصه ها تا چه اندازه از نظر طرح و محدوده، شبیه به هم است. بنابراین بخشی از قصه ها با موضوع «خویشاوند کشی خویشاوند آزاری» انتخاب گردید...Sedighi, Alireza
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Nāhamkhvānī-i nazariyah va nivishtār(barrisī va naqd-i romān-i Gonjishkhā bihisht rā mīfahmand)
رمان گنجشک ها بهشت را می فهمند مطابق با آموزه های پسامدرنیستی نوشته شده است. توجه به آشفتگی در روایت و به تبع آن زمان داستان، ویژگی های فراداستانی، ایجاد دور باطل با استفاده از شخصیت های تاریخی در کنار شخصیت های داستانی و حضور نویسنده در داستان برای به...Sedighi, Alireza
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Nawrūz va Jamshīd
Sedighi, Alireza
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Libros religiosos coloniales de la British Library: libros impresos en México, Perú, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador y Guatemala, 1543/4-1800
El propósito del presente artículo no es otro que poner en manos del lector una lista clasificada de libros sobre religión impresos en Hispanoamérica en los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII y actualmente conservados en la British Library. Se excluyen : pleitos en los que participan religiosos ; documentos sobre...Taylor, Barry ; West, Geoffrey
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Colecciones latinoamericanas especiales – colecciones desconocidas en el Reino Unido
El portal del "National Register of Archives" (http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/) brinda acceso a muchos materiales de posible interés para investigadores sobre Iberoamérica, aunque su enfoque lo constituyen los documentos relacionados estrictamente con la historia del Reino Unido y con personajes británicos. Desafortunadamente, no permite la búsqueda por materia; los índices están basados...West, Geoffrey ; Cazzasa, Julio ; Millum, Danny ; Topp Fargion, Janet
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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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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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Your name is not good enough: introducing the ORCID researcher identifier at Imperial College London
The ORCID researcher identifier ensures that research outputs can always reliably be traced back to their authors. ORCID also makes it possible to automate the sharing of research information, thereby increasing data quality, reducing duplication of effort for academics and saving institutions money. In 2014, Imperial College London created ORCID...Reimer, Torsten
ORCID, scholarly communications, research information management, identifier, and Imperial College London
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Participation in heritage crowdsourcing
This paper draws upon the experience of several years of running a multi-application crowdsourcing platform, as well as a longitudinal evaluation of participant profiles, motivations and behaviour, to argue that heritage crowdsourcing cannot straightforwardly be considered a democratising form of cultural participation. While we agree that crowdsourcing helps expand public...Bonacchi, Chiara ; Bevan, Andrew ; Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi ; Pett, Daniel ; Wexler, Jennifer
audience development, crowdsourcing, cultural participation, GLAM, representation, and heritage
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Where are we now? A review of research on the history of women's soccer in Ireland
It is a common fact that women's sport and leisure history, especially in male dominated spheres, and more specifically football, have been ignored by many academics. However, in recent years there have been major developments in digital technology that have changed the nature of the type of research that can...Byrne, Helena
indoor football, digital resources, women's soccer, women's football, oral history, and Ireland
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Communication, collaboration, and enhancing the learning experience: developing a collaborative virtual enquiry service in university libraries in the north of England
This article uses the case study of developing a collaborative “out-of-hours” virtual enquiry service by members of the Northern Collaboration Group of academic libraries in the north of England to explore the importance of communication and collaboration between academic library services in enhancing student learning. Set within the context of...Jolly, Liz ; White, Sue
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A transnational history of a writer in four packages
The novel, short story and screenplay writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died in 2013 and bequeathed her literary papers to the British Library in London. There they joined the Contemporary Collections which include the literary archives of Angela Carter, Harold Pinter, Shiva Naipaul and Hanif Kureishi. Prawer Jhabvala’s rich sixty-year contribution...McGonagle, Pauline
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An “authentic" performance?: the cultural politics of "folk" in Bengal and Bangladesh
Kabigāna is a verse-duelling/song-theatre genre practiced in West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh. Often deemed as obsolete and extinct–following from urban perceptions and the canons of literary history–the genre is found to grapple with the questions of ‘authenticity’ across its multiple spaces of performances- rural rituals, urban fairs/festivals, cinematic representations as...Basu, Priyanka
Kabigāna, cultural politics, authenticity, ritual, and folk performances
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An Englishman and a Scotsman in Vienna. ‘Tom’ and Tom Leonard in ‘The Tom Poems’ by Bob Cobbing
The Tom Poems’ originates in the chance discovery by Cobbing of a book of theoretical linguistics in a bookshop in Vienna, during a visit to the city in the company of Tom Leonard, in 1983, to perform at a sound poetry festival. Written with Leonard (implicitly) in mind, the language...Beckett, Chris
found poetry, grammar, vernacular, sound poetry, Tom Leonard, derived poetry, Bob Cobbing, and phonetic transcription
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Silsilah Raja-Raja Brunei: The Manuscript of Pengiran Kesuma Muhammad Hasyim
This article presents an edition of a manuscript of the Silsilah Raja-Raja Brunei, “Descent of the rulers of Brunei,” from the collection of Muzium Negara, Kuala Lumpur. The transliterated Malay text is accompanied by an English translation and a complete photographic record of the 14-page manuscript, with an introductory essay....Gallop, Annabel Teh
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Appraising, processing, and providing access to email in contemporary literary archives
The email of contemporary literary figures is ripe for research by scholars, and of broad interest to the general public, but can also present many challenges to cultural memory institutions that seek to appraise, process and provide access to this rich archival material. This article explores how five institutions across...Schneider, J. ; Adams, C. ; DeBauche, S. ; Echols, R. ; McKean, C. …
contemporary literary archives, machine learning, archival processing, natural language processing, and email preservation
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A manuscript of poems by Robert Sidney: some early impressions
IN January of this year the British Library, with the aid of generous grants from the Pilgrim Trust and the Radcliffe Trust, purchased from an unrevealed source through Messrs. Sotheby's an autograph manuscript, now numbered Additional MS. 58435, comprising sonnets, pastorals, songs, and epigrams composed by Robert Sidney (1563-1626), Earl...Kelliher, Hilton ; Duncan-Jones, Katherine
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The von Siebold Collection from Tokugawa Japan: 1. Dr Philipp Franz von Siebold's career in the Orient
BY 1867 the collection of Japanese printed books and manuscripts in the British Museum Numbered barely three hundred items whereas, for example, that of printed books alone in Hebrew ran to well over ten thousand. This relatively small collection of Japanese Materials in what were then two sections of the...Brown, Yu-Ying
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Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: select manuscript acquisitions January 1970 to June 1973
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Some occasional aspects of Johann Hermann Schein
IN 1973 the Department of Printed Books of the British Library, Reference Division, acquired a collection of some ninety separate pieces of occasional verse in Latin and German, mainly epithalamia, published in Leipzig between 1608 and 1630. Amongst these are four relating to the composer Johann Hermann Schein (born 1586,...Paisey, David
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Newton in the timberyard: the device of Frans Houttuyn, Amsterdam
THE use of printers' and publishers' devices is as old as the printed book. Their origin goes back even further to heraldry and medieval shop signs. Few collections of devices used in the Netherlands have been published; there is one by Nielson on those in Latin which, though quite useful...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman and the Werkmaniana in the British Library
THE city of Groningen, capital of the Dutch province of the same name, lies in the far north-east corner of the country, separated from its main cultural centres by the IJsselmeer and being reached, before the advent of air travel, only by a long journey by road or rail. Before...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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