Beethoven's Legacy

Letters: When Documents Contain a Surprise

Letters from the Garrod children to their father

The Nomadic Chemist: Alfred Sercombe Griffin (1878-1943) and Burma

A 2000-year-old postcard

Hugh Danby – JMW Turner’s Phantom Son

Georgian Slave to Safavid Master: Additions to the Corpus of Siyavush Beg Gurji

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Our top most unusual collection items

Reframing the Tin Book

Discovering Boccaccio Manuscripts Online

Deciphering an English Exorcism Manual

Revealing Prints at the British Library

A Silver Clasp

The Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Digitisation Project

The Basilikon Doron of King James VI and I

Reach for the Stars: Marcus Tullius Cicero and the Classical Constellations

Merlin the magician: from devil’s son to King Arthur’s trusted advisor

‘So Long’ from King Naimbanna II – Manuscripts from an 18th Century African King

Who reads digitised Malay manuscripts?

Epic Iran: Some Zoroastrian Treasures

Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens

A mariner's handbook from the library of Sir Walter Raleigh

The King, the Queen, his mistress, and the dead Emperor

A comparison between Rustam and Arjuna

Recording of the week: A Yanomami ceremonial dialogue

An Elegant Sufficiency, or the Curious Case of a Victorian Meme (2018)

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections

Elizabeth Blackwell to Hans Sloane

The View from a Hill: Making Sense of Ras Dharbat Ali in the Archive

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