Latest blog posts from The British Library

German Christmas gifts to Britain

Susan Reed — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:37:58 +0000

Everybody knows that the Christmas tree came to Britain from Germany. These days a lot of know-it-alls like me will also smugly point out that it wasn't introduced by Prince Albert as is often said,...

(From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)

Broken Black Arrow

Elspeth Millar — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:23:56 +0000

Tom Lean, interviewer for Made in Britain, writes: Forty years ago, on October 28th 1971, Britain took a small step of its own into joining the space race with the launch of Prospero X-3, a 66kg...

History of Science blog: from the Oral History of British Science project team at the British Library

Broadening the Focus

Susan Reed — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:17:32 +0000

Go into any public library or bookshop in the UK to look for works on German history, and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the books on display cover the Nazi period. Likewise, we’re all...

(From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)

Oral History of British Science Interviewees and the Holocaust

Elspeth Millar — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:39:34 +0000

Dr Sally Horrocks, Senior Academic Consultant for An Oral History of British Science, writes: My Leicester colleagues Olaf Jensen and Alex Korb, who run the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and...

History of Science blog: from the Oral History of British Science project team at the British Library

Guest Blogger: Charlotte Walter, MSc student

Elspeth Millar — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:36:42 +0000

We have a 'guest blogger' this week: Charlotte Walter, a History of Science student at Imperial College London and UCL. We are very keen to hear from researchers who have used OHBS material (or...

History of Science blog: from the Oral History of British Science project team at the British Library

Anglo-Saxons in Sachsen-Anhalt - GSLG Conference 2011

Susan Reed — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:00:29 +0000

In past years we’ve blogged about joint Wesline conferences in Durham and Manchester. This year, however, the German Studies Library Group celebrated its 25th anniversary independently with a...

(From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)

A cow and a comedian

Susan Reed — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:47:50 +0000

Outside the financial pages, the main news story from Germany to feature in the British media this summer was that of Yvonne the cow. Yvonne escaped from a Bavarian farm in May and spent over three...

(From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)

Raiders of the lost archive

Luke McKernan — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:45:00 +0000

Miguel Mera Well, I don't know - this blog publishes nothing in over three months, and then we get three posts in the space of three hours. Where might all this giddiness end? Here's news of an event...

Blog about moving images and the British Library. Written by Luke McKernan.

Film, copyright and the internet: a guide for producers

Luke McKernan — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:56:00 +0000

More filmy things going on at the British Library in September, with this event taking place in our business and IP Centre: Film, copyright and the internet: a guide for producers Wed 07 September...

Blog about moving images and the British Library. Written by Luke McKernan.

Sheffield Doc/Fest Meet-up

Luke McKernan — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:54:17 +0000

It's been a little on the quiet side here at the Moving Image blog of late, but that's not to say that things are quiet at the British Library. Our moving image plans are pressing ahead in all sorts...

Blog about moving images and the British Library. Written by Luke McKernan.

The man who would be Emperor - 2

Susan Reed — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:37:54 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the eventful life of the Habsburg monarchy's last Crown Prince, Otto, who died in July aged 98. Paradoxically, it was announced that the man who had not been...

(From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)

When the Wall went up

Susan Reed — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:07:41 +0000

The Berlin Wall was the most potent physical symbol of the Cold War. With exuberant graffiti art on its western face and heavily guarded "death strips" on the eastern side, it represented the...

(From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)

The BFI and the British Library

Luke McKernan — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:37:02 +0000

I'm delighted to be able to report the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the British Film Institute and the British Library. The objective of the MoU is to increase public,...

Blog about moving images and the British Library. Written by Luke McKernan.

Searching video, growing knowledge 2

Luke McKernan — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:39:59 +0000

Audio Search results page OK, as promised, here's part two of the guide to the moving image applications available for testing at the British Library's Growing Knowledge exhibition. In the last post...

Blog about moving images and the British Library. Written by Luke McKernan.

Searching video, growing knowledge

Luke McKernan — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:24:18 +0000

It's taken a while, but at long last we've been able to go public with our first digital video service. From today the British Library is showcasing its digital video management system, or Video...

Blog about moving images and the British Library. Written by Luke McKernan.

The Lindgren manifesto

Luke McKernan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:37:28 +0000

Yesterday evening the BFI Southbank hosted the Ernest Lindgren Memorial Lecture. Ernest Lindgren was the founding curator of what in 1935 was named the National Film Library and which is now known as...

Blog about moving images and the British Library. Written by Luke McKernan.