Our latest blog post profiles Nobel-nominated Georgian author Aka Morchiladze blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

After the football, we continue our great summer of sporting blogs with the first in a series marking the #Paris2024 #OlympicGames blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

More #OlympicGames blogging today with a look at how Czech Athletes defied the communist regime on the Olympic stage blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

Our lovely colleagues in Eccles Institute for the Americas & Oceania @ BL are looking for a Programmes Curator to support and develop research projects about the Americas through Library collections. If that sounds like you, details are here nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/20377/

Our latest #OlympicGames blog post tells the strange tale of the Unified German Team of the 1950s and 60s - not quite the triumph of sport over politics that was intended blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

Latvia and Lithuania are playing in the #Olympics 3x3 basketball semis (and maybe the finals...?) today. So we're taking a look at how basketball became big in these two countries, and how they became big in basketball blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

#InternationalCatDay, you say? A good day to revisit one of our old blog posts about French author Champfleury and his bestselling anthology of all things cat blogs.bl.uk/european/2015/…

Our last #Olympics blog post looks at Poland's record in the forgotten 'pentathlon' of artistic Olympic competitions, when writers, artists and composers also fought for gold blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

Our BL and Royal Holloway History Department Collaborative Doctoral student Anthony has been looking at religious metaphors in French caricatures from 1870-71. In the 1st of 2 blog posts he shares some of his findings blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

Join us for a very special evening with historian #davidvanreybrouck and translator David Colmer. The British Library Cultural Events - Revolusi: Indonesia and the Modern World Tickets | Monday, 07 Oct 2024 at 7:00 PM (seetickets.com) #decolonisation

More from BL and Royal Holloway History Department student Anthony on French caricatures from 1870-71 in today's blog post. This time a look at how the theme of empire was used blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

Discover the fascinating story of the women who worked behind the scenes of underground anti-Communist publishing in 1980s Poland blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

Some fascinating glimpses of life in rural Bulgaria in the 20th century, from the collections of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnology, digitised by the BL's Endangered Archives project blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

Three weeks to go to Monday 7 October, when we'll welcome David van Reybrouck and David Colmer to talk about Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World in our Pigott Theatre. All are welcome! Tickets on sale via link below. …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/revolusi…

Did you know that Tolstoy's writings were an influence on Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence and that the two men corresponded until Tolstoy's death? Find out more in today's blog post blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

Congratulations to Tom Lanoye for winning the biggest literary award of the Low Countries: The Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren!