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New Year Honour for British Library’s Head of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
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New Member appointed to the British Library Board
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Carnival costume designed by Ray Mahabir of Sunshine International Arts in 2015, based on Bele or Bel Air, a drum dance and song closely linked to Caribbean history, struggle, freedom and celebration. On display in West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song, photographed by Toby Keane
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Illustration by John Tenniel from the first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Photography courtesy of the British Library
Alice, as she grows larger.
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New PhD Placements: Greek Papyri in the British Library
Friday, January 13, 2017The British Library is offering a PhD placement opportunity for a student working on Greek papyri. This three-month placement will allow someone studying various aspects of Greek literature, papyrology, Late Antique history and religion to have first-hand experience with the...
Making hydrogen from wax
Friday, January 13, 2017Philip recently attended an event for other Oxford University chemistry alumni, and one of the speakers drew attention to a recent publication from, among others, Oxford chemists, regarding the production of hydrogen from paraffin waxes by microwave degradation using a...
A New Acquisition: Celebrating 50 years of the Graphic Studio Dublin
Friday, January 13, 2017Jerry Jenkins, Curator of Emerging Media, Contemporary British Published Collections writes: In November 2016 I had the pleasure to attend “From Yeats to Heaney: Discovering 140 Years of Literature at the National Library of Ireland” hosted by Embassy of Ireland....
Science, Art and Insects: Maria Sibylla Merian
Friday, January 13, 2017Maria Sibylla Merian, who died 300 years ago today is justly remembered both as a pioneering naturalist and an entomological and botanical artist, and as a woman who made her mark in both art and science at a time when...
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