tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-95759833279469324 2012-05-28T07:00:00+01:00 Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections, particularly those looked after by the History and Classics Department. We will provide fresh insights into history and our collections, ideas for research through highlighting under-exploited resources, news about interesting acquisitions, glimpses of the curatorial activities of the British Library and information about events. Writen by Penny Brook, Margaret Makepeace and colleagues TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168eab2705c970c 2012-05-28T07:00:00+01:00 2012-05-29T14:10:21+01:00 Margaret.Makepeace There is a popular misconception that Indigenous Australians had no contact with the outside world before European settlement. Yet Australian Aborigines along Australia’s northern tropical coast had...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef016766894ced970b 2012-05-21T07:00:00+01:00 2012-05-16T14:46:29+01:00 Margaret.Makepeace 'Royaume Uni, Douze Points’ This is what all patriotic British viewers will be hoping to hear during the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest, which this year takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 26...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168eb5b2904970c 2012-05-17T07:00:00+01:00 2012-05-17T07:00:00+01:00 Margaret.Makepeace We left our group of refugees on their way to be interrogated by Polish Consul Banasinski… IOR/L/PS/12/318 After detailed interviews in August 1940 Banasinski came to the conclusion that • Stolyhwo...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef01676658ff7c970b 2012-05-14T07:00:00+01:00 2012-05-14T07:00:00+01:00 Margaret.Makepeace Here is a story which could become a blockbuster if put on screen! A fascinating account of escapes from Soviet Russia during World War II has lain buried in the files of the India Office Records....<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168eafa026b970c 2012-05-08T07:00:00+01:00 2012-05-01T15:05:24+01:00 Margaret.Makepeace To commemorate VE Day on 8 May 1945, we have a story from guest blogger Dr Florian Stadtler - The contribution made by South Asians living in Britain to the war effort on the Home Front in World War...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0167646218ff970b 2012-04-30T07:00:00+01:00 2012-04-11T12:54:30+01:00 Margaret.Makepeace A guest blog from Raymond Howgego whose work featured in Hedley Sutton's last post - In 1936 the normally staid London publisher, Chatto &amp; Windus, published a stirring account of two women...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0163036d5277970d 2012-04-23T07:00:00+01:00 2012-03-30T12:11:54+01:00 Margaret.Makepeace Some lives are untold for a good reason. Several years ago Asian and African Studies added to the stock of their Reading Room a four-volume Encyclopaedia of Exploration compiled by Raymond Howgego...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168ea71d5b5970c 2012-04-20T14:23:15+01:00 2012-04-20T14:41:53+01:00 Penny Brook RHS National Gardening Week seems a good time to highlight the work of East India Company botanists such as John Forbes Royle who from 1823 was Superintendent of Saharanpur Botanic Garden, located...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168e9aefb33970c 2012-04-16T07:00:00+01:00 2012-04-11T12:39:22+01:00 Margaret.Makepeace One hundred years ago William Thomas Stead died in the Titanic disaster aged 62. He had enjoyed a long career as a journalist and newspaper editor, campaigning on political and social issues. W T...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef01675ecda1d8970b 2012-04-09T07:00:00+01:00 2012-03-29T14:55:14+01:00 Margaret.Makepeace Doctor Dolittle, in the novels by Hugh Lofting, had ‘rabbits in the pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar’. It could almost be a description of...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168e62fe416970c 2012-04-02T07:00:00+01:00 2012-01-31T17:13:47+00:00 Margaret.Makepeace A recent enquiry about the papers of Yvonne FitzRoy [IOPP/ Mss Eur E312] led to the discovery of the letters of Victor Sassoon – a legendary figure in 1930s Shanghai. Yvonne FitzRoy (1891-1971), was...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef014e8be76272970d 2012-03-26T07:00:00+01:00 2012-01-31T17:04:43+00:00 Margaret.Makepeace Prince Adolphus Frederick, first Duke of Cambridge, (1774-1850), son of George III, was a patron of many good causes and benevolent institutions. One of the associations he supported was the London...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168e8c88940970c 2012-03-19T07:00:00+00:00 2012-03-14T15:14:57+00:00 Margaret.Makepeace There are many 'untold lives' to be found in the pages of the biographical compilations in the Asian &amp; African Studies Reading Room, one of which is Lives of the officers of the Bengal Army, 1758...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef016762420e5f970b 2012-03-12T07:00:00+00:00 2012-03-08T16:15:56+00:00 Margaret.Makepeace Captain Michael Anthony Shrapnel Biddulph was posted to Turkey in 1854, and shortly afterwards to the Crimea, where he served with distinction as assistant engineer of the Royal Artillery, and later...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef01630039519f970d 2012-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 2012-02-29T16:27:59+00:00 Margaret.Makepeace The mercantile classes have long been associated with acts of charity within the communities in which they live and the records of the East India Company provide ample evidence of numerous...<br/> <br/> Untold Lives draws out from the shadows little-known stories of individuals or groups of people. It showcases the richness and diversity of the British Library’s collections.