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Collections Within Collections: An Analysis of Tipu Sultan’s Library
The library of Tipu Sultan of Mysore is one of the most important in the history of South Asian Islamic collections. Unlike many collections which can be regarded as dynastic libraries, Tipu’s was relatively newly-formed. Most of the books had not been acquired before the mid-eighteenth century but nevertheless came...Sims-Williams, Ursula
Tipu Sultan, Islamic seals, manuscript studies, and Deccan India
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Journal article
Sovereign Signs: Titles of Kingship on Malay Seals
The recent publication of a new catalogue of over 2,000 Malay seals—defined as seals from Southeast Asia, with inscriptions in Arabic script—makes available for the first time a substantial corpus of primary source material from the Malay archipelago, dating from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. The main function...Gallop, Annabel Teh
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‘How soon was now?’: A retrospective on the popularity of nouveau vintage
Fashion is a product and reflection of time and tantamount to modernity. The promise of which rests in the future, thus fashion is forever looking forward in the ambition to be ‘new’. Vintage fashion, namely clothes from past periods apprehend this perpetual cycle, often adopted by alternative groups of consumers...Brett, Rachel
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Qur’an manuscripts from Mindanao: collecting histories, art and materiality
The study of the writing traditions of the Malay world of maritime South East Asia has been both shaped and distorted by the differing colonial experiences within the region. In particular, a chasmic disconnect can be discerned between the western swathe occupied by the modern nations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei...Gallop, Annabel Teh
Maranao, Islamic art, Qur'an manuscripts, manuscript illumination, Maguindanao, and Mindanao
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Poster (published)
Creating and Archiving Electronic Literature During the Pandemic
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on the way cultural heritage organisations engage with their audiences. At a time when public exhibitions and events have to be postponed indefinitely or cancelled, many GLAM institutions have chosen to increase their online presence instead, looking at virtual platforms as...Rossi, Giulia Carla
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Trusting in God: Religious Inscriptions on Malay Seals
Malay seals – which can be defined as seals from Southeast Asia with inscriptions in Arabic script – date from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and originate from all parts of Nusantara. The inscriptions on Malay seals serve to identify the seal owner through his (or her) name or...Gallop, Annabel Teh
Malay seals, sigillography, Islamic seals, and religious inscriptions
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The Croatian Collections in the British Library
The paper discusses Croatian historic collections acquired by the British Museum Library in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The results of previous research into the collection are mentioned and the new findings are presented. The paper considers the growth of the Croatian collection to...Grba, Milan
Glagolitic, Slavic, academic publications, Croatia, Croatian books and collections, British Museum Library, manuscript, and Eastern European
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Book
The Harlem Renaissance: A selective guide to materials at the British Library (revised)
The rich surge in African American arts and letters that took place in 1920s was not limited to Harlem, nor even to New York City. However, the intensity of the movement in that city, and the sheer number of black writers, musicians, and scholars who lived and worked in Harlem...Petrovic, Jean
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The Federal Writers’ Project: A guide to materials held at the British Library
The Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 27 July 1935 as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As with so many of the New Deal programmes, the remit of the FWP – and its sister projects in art, music and theatre, known collectively...Petrovic, Jean
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'For Myself, For My Children, For Money': A bibliography of early American women’s writings at the British Library
This bibliography offers readers a guide to writings by American women in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Each of the women listed here had their first work published as a single volume, under their name alone, by 1850. The works include novels, collections of poetry, historical monographs, biographies,...Petrovic, Jean
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Early American Science: a selective guide to materials at the British Library
By the early eighteenth century the American colonies were well established along the eastern seaboard. In many respects, their economic development until this point had been remarkable. So, too, were the advances they had made in self-government. By the 1720s trade between the colonies was increasing; transport links were improving;...Petrovic, Jean
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Research report
New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) Collection Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of a thematic website collection initiated as part of the CDAS Emerging Formats work. This collection has been given the working title “New Media Writing Prize Collection”. The New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) was established in the UK in 2010 by Bournemouth University,...Rossi, Giulia Carla
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The Papers of Edward Scott, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum 1888-1904
Edward Scott (1840-1918) was a member of the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum for just over forty years, 1863-1904. From 1888 until his retirement he was Keeper of Manuscripts and yet he is not as well remembered as his predecessors or successors. In 2014 the British Library acquired a small...Wright, C.J.
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From popular to rare: Acquisition and preservation policies at the British Museum Library in Panizzi’s time
Large quantities of Italian early modern books were dispersed on a vast scale mainly from the 1760s onwards as a consequence of the decline of the local aristocracy, the French Revolution and the suppressions of religious libraries. Increasing interest in the Italian Renaissance and its historical importance strongly influenced the...Carnelos, Laura
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The Formation, development and curation of the Tapling Collection at the British Museum Library in the Nineteenth Century
In 1891 Thomas Keay Tapling bequeathed his near complete, worldwide collection of stamps and postal stationery to the British Museum Library. To celebrate the 130th anniversary of this event which created the British Library's Philatelic Collections, this article provides an overview of the Tapling Collection's formation, development and early curation...Morel, Richard Scott
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Technical report
Supporting documents for selected '14-18 NOW' project websites in the UK Web Archive
This series of PDFs was created by Anisa Hawes, independent researcher and archivist, to accompany a collection of archived websites produced for the '14-18 NOW' project, by the Imperial War Museum between 2018 and 2019. The PDFs provide metadata and contextual information to support navigation of the archived websites, which...Hawes, Anisa
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A Guide to Open Access
Find out what open access means, how to publish research on an open access basis, and discover the resources and tools that enable free, online access to publications.British Library
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A Guide to Copyright and Creative Commons in Research
Learn the basics of copyright and licensing, find out what to consider when publishing your work and how to make use of published materials in your own research.British Library