Starting the new year with a look back at the old: a review of 2024 (with added 2023) from the European Studies Blog blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

Join us on 27 January to mark #HolocaustMemorialDay 2025 with an event in collaboration with Polish Cultural Institute in London exploring Holocaust memory and its ongoing significance. blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

Explore rural life in 20th-century Yugoslavia with pioneering anthropologist Vera Stein Ehrlich in today's blog post blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

In the week leading up to #HolocaustMemorialDay we're publishing some related blog posts. Today a look at diaries, stories and drawings by children of the Terezín Ghetto blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

Today's #HolocaustMemorialDay post examines the memorialisation of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

Etty Hillesum kept diaries from 1941-43 documenting Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam & hoping that her work helping others could be 'a balm' . On this #HolocaustMemorialDay we remember her blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

The current British Library exhibition on #MedievalWomen includes work by the earliest western women printers. Find out more here blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

Delighted to be at the Society of Authors #TranslationPrizes 2025 British Library. 8 awards will be announced amongst which the Vondelprijs . Here is our colleague Sophie Defrance Sophie Defrance to open the evening.

Congratulations to all the winners of the The Society of Authors Translation Prizes, including several past contributors! The prizes celebrate translations from 7 different languages, as well as a debut translation—this year from Eastern Armenian. tinyurl.com/4r69h38h

Missed our Doctoral training days? Compensate yourself with an online dip into our wide-ranging collections here blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

One of the amazing #MedievalWomen who didn't make it into our exhibition. Read all about Queen Tamar of Georgia, Queen of Queens and King of Kings blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

On the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine we pay tribute to the city of Kharkiv and its people blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

For #LGBTQ+ History Month, we take a look at the lives of lesbian author Lída Merlínová and trans runner Zdeněk Koubek blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

Our #MedievalWomen exhibition has now closed, but in today's blog post you can read about St Lidwina, one of the extraordinary women who featured in it (and discover why she might be blessing Dutch ice-skaters!) blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

This week we're joining German Embassy London, Goethe-Institut London and DAAD_UKandIreland in giving a #shoutoutforgerman as we take a look at over three centuries resources for lucky British learners of German blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

To mark #veday2025 we look at liberation and remembrance in the Netherlands and among the UK's Dutch community blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

Our annual Seminar on Textual Bibliography is on 9 June! Programme and booking details here blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

Co-curator of the current British Library exhibition "Unearthed: the Power of Gardening", Valentina Mirabella, finds books from our Italian collections to complement some of the exhibits in today's blog post blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

The 7th GSLG/BL Graham Nattrass Lecture is on 24 June at 6pm. Prof. Roger Paulin will speak on Anna Katharina Emmerich’s "Das bittere Leiden unseres Herrn Jesu Christi". Attendance free but booking required. Contact details here gslg.org.uk/2025/06/03/rem…

As there was no room for garden gnomes in the current BL 'Unearthed' exhibition, we've given them a blog post to compensate blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…