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Item type:Learning object, Climate change at the British Library - reader guide(2026-10-27)Eagle, PhilipThis document describes key climate change resources held by the British Library and links to significant websites and online resources that are freely accessible to all. The content includes multiple types of publication for audiences from the general public to practitioners and researchers.43 15 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Book, Political appetites: the power of food in revolutionary America(2026-10-13)Siegel, NancyThe book that inspired the WMHT Public Media original documentary, Feeding the American Revolution. Food has long carried political meaning, and revolutionary America was no exception. In Political Appetites, art and culinary historian Nancy Siegel uncovers a richly layered story in which meals, ingredients, and even kitchenware helped Americans define what democracy should look—and taste—like. From tea boycotts and homemade "Liberty Tea" to Washington Pie, Election Cake, and Mammoth Cheese, Siegel shows how ordinary foods became vehicles for protest, persuasion, and celebration during the years surrounding the Revolution and the Early Republic. The book moves from the Stamp Act crisis of 1765 through the 1830s, revealing how practices as simple as cooking, planting a garden, or setting a table could carry distinctly political weight. Imported luxuries symbolized ties to Britain, patriotic ceramics and satirical prints circulated new ideas about citizenship, and the cultivation of native plants signaled pride in American abundance. Women, enslaved cooks, Indigenous herbalists, artisans, and political satirists all helped shape this shared culinary vocabulary, making food an arena where people without formal political rights could still participate in nation-building. Examining visual culture, broadsides, recipes, horticultural writings, and domestic artifacts, Political Appetites offers a vivid portrait of a society learning to express its ideals through the everyday acts of eating and preparing food. Siegel includes historical recipes—short, evocative, and workable for modern kitchens—inviting readers to experience these early flavors firsthand. Engaging and original, Political Appetites reframes familiar stories of revolution and independence by tracing the political meanings embedded in the meals people cooked, the gardens they nurtured, and the tableware they used. It reminds us that long before debates about fast food chains or "freedom fries," Americans were already shaping their politics at the table.12 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Book, Illustrating India: The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie (1784-1821)(2010)Howes, Jennifer14 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Book, Literary Networks and the Transmission of German Literature and Ideas in Britain, 1756-1806(2026-06)Angerson, CatherineLiterary groups and publishing networks played a crucial role in the transmission of German literature and ideas in Britain during a period of political upheaval, from the Seven Years’ War (1756–63) to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Drawing on a range of printed and manuscript sources, Catherine Angerson examines how different groups responded to German authors, their motivations for translating or promoting German texts and the ways in which ideas were debated and disseminated. Rational Dissenters in England turned to German authors for philosophical arguments supporting their own demands for political reform and religious freedom, while Scottish lawyers engaged with linguistic affinities and moral-philosophical questions posed by German dramatists such as Friedrich Schiller. A third group, the arch-conservative Anti-Jacobins, opposed the cosmopolitanism of Dissenting publishers, translators and reviewers who promoted German literature and philosophy to the journal-reading public. The book reveals new aspects of the varied reception, translation and mediation of German texts among Anglophone audiences in the late Enlightenment and early Romantic period.5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Book, The Transactioneer: Hans Sloane and the Rise of Public Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Britain(2026-12-08)Marples, AliceThe history of how transactions built Britain's empire of public science. Hans Sloane is often remembered as the founding collector of the British Museum. In The Transactioneer, Alice Marples offers a different portrait: not a heroic architect of Enlightenment progress, but a skilled manager of transactions—of specimens, correspondence, credit, and trust—whose practices helped redefine how natural knowledge was made public in eighteenth-century Britain. The book examines how this knowledge was amassed and managed at the turn of the eighteenth century, tracing the daily labor of collecting...7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Research report, National Life Stories Annual Review 2025-26(2026)National Life StoriesAn overview of the work of National Life Stories in 2025. Contains updates on all major NLS projects, including a spotlight feature on An Oral History of the Royal Academy of Music, which concluded this year. Also features articles on a capsule project celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Landmark Trust; 30 years of Architects' Lives; Alan Dein revisiting the 102 interviews recorded for Lives in Steel; an archivist's perspective on the NLS archive behind-the-scenes; and a Funder Spotlight on the Jerwood Foundation. The Review also showcases the work of five partner projects: 'An Oral History of British Nuclear Test Veterans'; 'Our Life Stories', a pioneering peer-to-peer project by people with learning disabilities and autism supported by United Response; 'An Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK 1970-2020'; 'South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories'; and Annalise Taylor's interviews with members of the UK's home education community.32 13 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Magazine article, What Became of the Black Loyalists?(2026-07-07)Lock, AlexanderHoping to weaken the rebels’ cause, Britain offered freedom to enslaved people who joined the British army. At the end of the American Revolutionary War that promised freedom had to be honoured – but how and where?4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Book chapter, Twin statues of Robert Clive and the long history of imperial narratives in London and Calcutta(2026)3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Book chapter, 6 Leveraging public health to prevent homelessness systemically(2026-08-27)Black, CarolDrawing on decades of leadership in medicine and public health, Carol Black explores how lessons from successful public health reform can be applied to ending homelessness. The chapter argues for a systemic, evidence-led approach that prioritises upstream prevention, cross-sector coordination and implementation fidelity. Black shows how major policy wins – such as the UK’s smoking ban or drug treatment reform – were achieved through strong data, political alignment and public sentiment shifts. She makes the case that homelessness is preventable and should be tackled with the same urgency and strategy. Black ends with a hopeful challenge: if governments can now link employment to health, they can also link housing to health – and this shift in thinking could be the key to ending homelessness for good.9 5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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