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Research report
British Library Research Report 2020–21
This fifth annual research report has a particular emphasis on digital research, with features on crowdsourcing, international collaborations in digital scholarship and digitising our collections. A highlight this year was the return of exhibitions at our St Pancras site in London. You can read about the research that informed three...British Library
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United States and Canadian Holdings in the British Library Newspaper Library
A guide to historic US and Canadian newspapers held in print and on microform. Titles are listed alphabetically and are also indexed by state/province and town.Kemble, Jean ; Das, Pam
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The American Civil Rights Movement: A Guide to Materials in the British Library
This guide includes coverage of phases of the movement, civil rights organisations, participants in the movement, and the Federal Government, alongside a section organised by States.Kemble, Jean
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A chronological check-list of works held in the British Library in or about the Eastern Algonquian languages, 1643-1851
Covers the British Library's early eastern Algonquian language books.Edwards, Adrian S.
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A chronological checklist of works held at the British Library in or about the Northern Iroquoian Languages, 1545-1900
Covers the British Library's antiquarian materials in or about Northern Iroquoian languages.Edwards, Adrian S.
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United States government policies toward Native Americans, 1787-1990: A Guide to Materials in the British Library
This guide explores topics related to interactions between the US government and Native Americans, covering periods of conflict, segregation, removal and assimilation, through to the rights campaigns of the 1960s and policies of self-determination.Whittaker, David J.
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American women in the twentieth century: A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
A bibliographic guide providing an introduction to the lives of American women in the twentieth century, covering most aspects of women’s experience and culture, including education, work, family life, politics, ethnicity, and sexuality.Kemble, Jean
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‘For Myself, For My Children, For Money’: Selective Biographies Of Early American Women Writers
Select biographies of American women writers who published single volumes under their own name by 1850.Petrovic, Jean
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The American City in the Twentieth Century: A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
A select guide to monographs on the American city in the twentieth century, covering city government, crime and urban unrest, education, housing and African Americans; works on particular geographic regions and individual major American cities.Petrovic, Jean
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The United States and the 1930s: A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
This selective guide to material on America in the 1930s includes coverage of government and politics, economics, cultural and intellectual history and foreign relations as well as section organised by region.Sharp Wells, Anne
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The Anglo-American 'special relationship' during the Second World War: A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
This selective guide focuses on the high-level diplomatic and military relations between the US and the UK between 1939 and 1945. It also covers the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union and touches on relationships with other allies.Sharp Wells, Anne
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The United States and the Vietnam War: A Selective Guide to Materials at the British Library
It would be difficult to overstate the impact on the United States of the war in Vietnam. Not only did it expose the limits of U.S. military power and destroy the consensus over post-World War II foreign policy, but it acted as a catalyst for enormous social, cultural and political...Kemble, Jean ; Sarvia, Illa
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An Era of Change. Contemporary UK-US-West European Relations: A Bibliography of Materials held at the British Library
A guide to works concerning relationships between the UK, US and Western Europe at the end of the Cold War, covering politics, economics and strategic relations.David and Mary Eccles Centre for American Studies ; Kemble, Jean
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United States Immigration, 1941-2001: A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
A select guide to monographs on immigration to the United States between 1941 and 2001. Topics covered include work, illegal immigration, education, and public opinion. There are sections on specific immigrant groups and geographic breakdown by state (although not all states are represented).Kemble, Jean
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U.S. Politics and the Media: A Selective Guide to Materials at the British Library
During the past fifty years an on-going media revolution has transformed political communication in the United States. Yet, despite potential access to political information being at an all-time high, many observers believe that the culture of ‘infotainment’ is preventing a corresponding increase in either levels of political knowledge or political...Petrovic, Jean
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Mormon Americana: A Bibliographical Guide to Printed Material in the British Library relating to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
This guide explores works concerning the Mormon church in America, including sacred texts, histories and cultural topics.Whittaker, David J.
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Imagining the West: A Guide to Printed Materials in The British Library on The Literature of The American West
This guide explores fiction works about the American West and its place in the popular imagination.Whittaker, David J.
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Women in the trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1900: A Guide to Materials in the British Library
Few regions, in any country, at any time, have so indelibly shaped their nation’s identity and its international image as the late nineteenth century American West. For nearly a century this West was portrayed in fiction, film, folklore and art as a vast arena of mythic struggles between rugged individuals,...Kemble, Jean
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Mining the American West: A Bibliographical Guide to Printed Materials on American Mining Frontiers in the British Library
This bibliography provides a basic guide to the printed materials on this important topic in American History as reflected in the holdings of the British Library. It does not claim to be comprehensive, but it will provide the serious student with a window to the literature on Western American mining...Whittaker, David J.
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The American Colonies, 1584-1688. A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library
A guide to works concerning the European colonization of the areas of North America that later became the United States of America, focusing on the fifteen states bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Topics include politics and government, economy, society, and cultural and intellectual life.Sharp Wells, Anne
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Conserving America: A Bibliographical Guide to Printed Material in the British Library Relating to American Environmental History and Thought
The purpose of this bibliography is to list the significant studies of American Environment History found in the British Library. Because no clear line can be drawn between conservation, reclamation, ecology and natural history, each is included. This bibliography does not contain references to all the holdings on the topic...Whittaker, David J.
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Caribbean Publishing: A Selective Bibliography of British Library Holdings, 1800-1974
This bibliography includes British Library holdings of books that were published in Barbados, British Guiana, Grenada, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, between 1800 and their respective independences: 1966, 1970, 1974, 1962 and 1962. A selective bibliography, there were some important exclusions, crucially, anything that was published by a ‘government printing...Oppenheim, Naomi
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Journal article
The International Standard Name Identifier: extending identity management across the global metadata supply chain
This article describes how ISNI is being adopted as a common identifier across disparate sectors of publishing. Whether publishing and distributing recorded music, film or text ISNI is making good identity management a staple element in the global metadata supply chain. As the content creation industries become more engaged with...MacEwan, Andrew
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Journal article
Islamic Manuscripts from Aceh in the British Library
Aceh has long been renowned as a centre of Islamic scholarship, and some of the most famous Malay texts were composed in this area of north Sumatra. However, despite an abundance of philological and literary studies of texts from Aceh, little attention has yet been paid to the materiality of...Acehnese, Aceh, manuscripts, binding, Malay, Arabic, illumination, and Southeast Asia
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Wikimedia Commons: A Beginner's Guide
A guide written for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, instructing users how to upload their images to Wikimedia Commons.Hinnie, Lucy R.
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Journal article
Orwell’s Political Pamphlet ‘Solar System’: A Network Interpretation of a British Library Collection
This article examines the network of publishers, authors and topics included in George Orwell’s Collection of Political Pamphlets at the British Library (shelfmark 1899.ss.1-49.), some of which were catalogued as part of a Ph.D. placement in 2019. It explores how the pamphlets came to be held at the British Library,...Treacher, Claudia
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Dataset
Frederick May's London Press Dictionary and Advertiser's Handbook (1883-1911)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Frederick May and successors, containing information on newspapers, magazines and periodicals and arranged in alphabetical and sometimes tabular order. Information for each title included price publisher office political and religious leaningFrederick May & Son ; British Library
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The Newspaper Press Directory (1881-1920)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Charles Mitchell. Newspapers listed primarily listed in alphabetical order of the town the newspaper where the title was published. Information for each title included: features connected with the district such as population and trade; principal towns in...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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Abstract
Historic machines from 'prams' to 'Parliament': new avenues for collaborative linguistic research
Research in computational linguistics has made successful attempts at modelling word meaning at scale, but much remains to be done to put these computational models to the test of historical scholarship (see e.g. Beelen et al. 2021). More importantly, a lot of computational research looks at texts in a historical...Ridge, Mia ; Tolfo, Giorgia ; Westerling, Kalle ; Pedrazzini, Nilo ; McGillivray, Barbara
crowdsourcing, computational linguistics, and digital humanities
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Journal article
'I Renounced my Children as Aforesaid': A Consensual Divorce of 369
This article offers the edition of a divorce settlement of 369 housed in the British Library. The papyrus is one of the few fourth-century deeds of divorce. In addition to the standard clauses found in such settlements, provisions for the care of the minor children of the ex-couple are also...Micucci, Federica
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Book chapter
Tibet
Rinpoche, Lama Chime Radha
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Working paper
An Introduction to AI for GLAM
There is a growing interest in utilising Machine Learning (ML) techniques within Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM), and a corresponding demand for training to enable practitioners to engage confidently in this area. Staff at these institutions are seeking practical knowledge and skills in ML concepts and methods specific to...van Strien, Daniel ; Bell, Mark ; McGregor, Nora Rose ; Trizna, Michael
ICML, GLAM, and Machine Learning
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Working paper
Documenting Geographically and Contextually Diverse Data Sources: The BigScience Catalogue of Language Data and Resources
In recent years, large-scale data collection efforts have prioritized the amount of data collected in order to improve the modeling capabilities of large language models. This prioritization, however, has resulted in concerns with respect to the rights of data subjects represented in data collections, particularly when considering the difficulty in... -
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Entities, Dates, and Languages: Zero-Shot on Historical Texts with T0
In this work, we explore whether the recently demonstrated zero-shot abilities of the T0 model extend to Named Entity Recognition for out-of-distribution languages and time periods. Using a historical newspaper corpus in 3 languages as test-bed, we use prompts to extract possible named entities. Our results show that a naive...De Toni, Francesco ; Akiki, Christopher ; de la Rosa, Javier ; Fourrier, Clémentine ; Manjavacas, Enrique …
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Dataset
UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/kvwc-ty06. If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
thesis, student, UK, dissertations, PhD, theses, doctoral, EThOS, higher education, and research
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Journal article
American Political Pamphlets 1917-1945 at the British Library
The twentieth century was a golden age of pamphleteering in America, especially during the period between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945. Pamphlets were vital tools for radical organizations in educating and communicating with their own members and persuading the public...Collins, Jodie
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Research report
Bunnyfoot British Library Emerging Formats Report
Bunnyfoot undertook an exploratory study for the British Library to investigate users’ perspectives on the preservation and use of Emerging Formats in the Library context. These findings are intended to help inform requirements for the collection, preservation, discovery and use of these materials at legal deposit libraries.Tope, Andrew ; Kayukala, Mila
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Dataset
British Library Newspaper Title-level List: A list of catalogued newspaper titles held by the British Library
A title-level list of catalogued newspapers held by the British Library.British Library
datasets, catalogues, media, newspapers, periodicals, and metadata
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Research report
Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014 Collection Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of the web archive collection for the Commonwealth Games to be held in Glasgow. The proposed collection has been given the working title “Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014". Collection of internet sites relating to the XX Commonwealth Games which were held in Glasgow, Scotland,...MacGlone, Eilidh
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Journal article
Selected English Masonic Bookbindings
Books as artefacts, as well as the texts that they contain, play a fundamental role in English freemasonry. The esteem in which they were held is shown in paintings. This detail comes from a portrait of freemason Dr Robert Crucefix (1797-1850) who is shown with significant items of regalia as...Marks, P. J. M.
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Other
In the Spotlight Participants Survey
In summer 2018, the LibCrowds project at the British Library ran a survey designed to help us understand who our participants were. The 22 question survey was based on earlier surveys run by the Galaxy Zoo and Art UK Tagger projects, to allow comparison with other crowdsourcing projects. It was...British Library
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Exhibition object labels
West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
Fargion , Janet Topp ; Wallace, Marion
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Exhibition object labels
‘Sounds of Africa’, part of the Africa ’05 season
Wallace, Marion
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Other
Digital Sources in Europe for African History
There are copious resources for the study of African history on the internet. They include manuscripts and documentary archives, maps, museum collections, newspapers, printed books, picture collections, and sound and moving images. The websites of European institutions provide a good proportion of this content, reflecting the long, entangled, and troubled... -
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Author of his own fate? The eighteenth-century writings of Ayuba Sulayman Diallo
The life of Ayuba Sulayman Diallo (also known as Job ben Solomon) receives a fresh examination in this article, based primarily on his own writings. The son of an Imam from Bundu in Senegambia, Diallo was enslaved in 1731 and transported to America. He survived to gain his freedom, make...Naylor, Paul ; Wallace, Marion
Atlantic World, biography, Islam , scholarship, Senegal , Senegambia , slave narratives, West Africa , emancipation, slavery, archives, and Gambia
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Locating a National Collection/Research Bods quantitative findings summary
The National Trust and The British Library, along with several cultural heritage partners, commissioned an audience research project to inform the development of an online history and heritage platform to provide broader access to the wealth of artefacts and resources from across the entire network of information providers. This slide...Strachan, Peter
Quantitative, Audience Research, Geography, Location, and Cultural Heritage