tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-78092446019131148 2012-05-15T10:22:56+01:00 The blog is about the British Library's German collection, and German culture, politics and literature. Written by Clemens Gresser, Susan Reed and Dorothea Miehe TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef01676680d7be970b 2012-05-15T10:22:56+01:00 2012-05-15T10:22:56+01:00 Susan Reed The opening of our new "Writing Britain" exhibition, and the accompanying interactive map where website visitors can mark their favourite literary places, has made me think about German books I've...<br/> <br/> (From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dachblog/~4/hh38Z-DgAF0" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/dach/2012/05/a-sense-of-place.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168ea379349970c 2012-04-16T17:29:24+01:00 2012-04-16T17:29:24+01:00 Susan Reed Every year the trade magazine The Bookseller awards its "Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year". One of the small joys of working at the BL is the occasional serendipitous...<br/> <br/> (From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dachblog/~4/u-Qp3WxEjNk" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/dach/2012/04/weird-and-wonderful.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef016302eac321970d 2012-03-16T17:22:11+00:00 2012-03-16T17:22:11+00:00 Susan Reed Last week my eye was caught by a newspaper article about a collection of 500 previously unknown fairy tales discovered in a German archive. The story was picked up in various countries and on Radio...<br/> <br/> (From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dachblog/~4/JtIFgMzfxVg" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/dach/2012/03/a-news-story-and-some-fairy-stories.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168e7c8662d970c 2012-02-22T09:08:00+00:00 2012-02-22T09:08:00+00:00 Susan Reed Last Thursday evening I attended an event at the German Ambassador's Residence to introduce the German Resources in Britain (GRiB) project. The aim of this project is to create a website which will...<br/> <br/> (From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dachblog/~4/DpWbS-j88S0" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/dach/2012/02/networking-for-a-network.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef015438934d5c970c 2011-12-20T12:37:58+00:00 2011-12-20T12:37:58+00:00 Susan Reed 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,...<br/> <br/> (From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dachblog/~4/f8AINh_QSoE" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/dach/2011/12/german-christmas-gifts-to-britain.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef015392cd4a62970b 2011-11-04T12:17:32+00:00 2011-11-04T12:17:32+00:00 Susan Reed 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...<br/> <br/> (From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dachblog/~4/AM-b8oaXe98" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/dach/2011/11/broadening-the-focus.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef015435b9a22e970c 2011-09-27T10:00:29+01:00 2011-09-27T10:00:29+01:00 Susan Reed 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...<br/> <br/> (From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dachblog/~4/fmmZXV4lgK0" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/dach/2011/09/in-past-years-weve-blogged-about-joint-wesline-conferences-in-durhamand-manchester-this-year-however-the-german-studies.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef01539164bbf7970b 2011-09-07T10:47:50+01:00 2011-09-07T10:47:50+01:00 Susan Reed 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...<br/> <br/> (From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dachblog/~4/1B7fevzn9W4" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/dach/2011/09/a-cow-and-a-comedian.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef015434a536ee970c 2011-08-19T12:37:54+01:00 2011-08-19T12:41:02+01:00 Susan Reed 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...<br/> <br/> (From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dachblog/~4/HnATWBfgKFs" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/dach/2011/08/the-man-who-would-be-emperor-2.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef015390a2d55e970b 2011-08-12T15:07:41+01:00 2011-08-12T15:07:41+01:00 Susan Reed 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...<br/> <br/> (From DACH-blog: What we're talking about in German collections today)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dachblog/~4/k7-gsKovgGw" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/dach/2011/08/when-the-wall-went-up.html