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Tag Archives: British Library
BBC taking Shakespeare on tour
The BBC is embracing Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary with a new project launching on Monday 21 March that focuses on the resources and stories of places all round Britain, using local BBC radio stations and the British Library. Shakespeare on Tour … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged BBC, British Library, Gregory Doran, Infant Roscius, Master Grossmith, playbills, Records of Early English Drama, REED, Royal Shakespearian Theatre, Shakespeare Club, Shakespeare on Tour, Siobhan Keenan
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Last call for Magna Carta at the British Library
2015 has been the eight-hundredth anniversary of the great document Magna Carta, one of the world’s most famous documents, which is still controversial. Is it, as the British Library’s website asks, the “foundation of democracy or rallying cry for modern … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Sources
Tagged British Library, King John, Magna Carta
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The sweet birds, O, how they sing!
Standing on the aptly-named Swallow Point, a promontory overlooking the Bristol Channel a week or so ago with some local birdwatchers, I was reminded what an exciting time this is for wildlife. They noted how many of the birds flying … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged birds, blackbird, British Library, Herball, John Gerarde, Mary Arden's Farm, Richard Morris, swallow
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Shakespeare, King John and Magna Carta in 2015
Listening to Melvyn Bragg’s series on Radio 4 celebrating the history of Magna Carta, 800 this year, I realise how little I know about the document and the historical background to Shakespeare’s play King John. By the end of 2015 … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems
Tagged British Library, King John, Lincoln, Magna Carta, Melvyn Bragg, Parliament in the Making, Royal Holloway, Salisbury, Taking Liberties, Worcester Cathedral
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The Secret Life of Shakespeare’s First Folio
Shakespeare’s First Folio is back in the news again, with a documentary presented by actor Simon Russell Beale having been broadcast on 9 September. It’s part of the series The Secret Life of Books, a fascinating look at the process of creative … Continue reading
Come, here is the map: Mercator at the British Library
Now available on the British Library’s Online Gallery of Virtual Books is the Mercator Map of Europe. You might assume from the name that it’s an early printed atlas, but this book is far more interesting than that. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged British Library, cartography, Italy, map, Map of Europe, Mercator, Ortelius
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Shakespeare, medicine and science, 450 years on
A new book is just about to be published linking Shakespeare and science, a pairing that still doesn’t happen very often in the study of Shakespeare. This is at least partly because scientific methods based on experimentation and logical enquiry were … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged astronomy, British Library, Dan Falk, medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, science, Sujata Iyengar, Thomas Digges
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Safeguarding the “first rough draft of history”
Newspapers are a relatively new invention: no character in a Shakespeare play ever reads one, news being conveyed by messenger or letter. In The Merchant of Venice Tubal brings a personal account to Shylock of the misfortunes of Antonio’s ship “I … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged British Library, Colindale, Henry IV part 2, letters, messenger, Newspaper Storage Building, newspapers, rumour, The Merchant of Venice
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Shakespeare and the Georgians
2014, it seems, is going to be the year of the Georgians, with several different exhibitions looking at different aspects of life in the period covering 1714 to 1837. At the British Library there is an exhibition Georgians Revealed: Life, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Bath Costume Museum, British Library, Georgians, map, Poets Corner, statuary, Stowe, Westminster Abbey, William Kent
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Open access and going digital in 2013
Looking back over 2013, there’s been a noticeable increase in Libraries, Museums and Archives making their digital collections available online. Organisations have been digitising their collections for years, and no wonder, since this potentially increases access to collections while simultaneously … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged British Library, Digital Public Library of America, digital strategy, digitisation, Europeana, open access, Rijksmuseum, Tate Britain
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