Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌍🌏

Here's a nice picture from a project which digitised the historical botanical collections in the East African Herbarium Library at the National Museums of Kenya (EAP923)
eap.bl.uk/project/EAP923

Our blog is back in action! Discover the rare Serbian material from the Lazic family archive, digitised by Endangered Archives Programme blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

We have a new blog post! Read about EAP1430 project in Guinea and Senegal digitising 50,000 pages of Arabic and Ajami manuscripts on our site.

📢 Final call for applications! Apply now before time runs out.

Deadline: Monday, 13 November (12:00 PM London time)

One week left to the EAP Grant application deadline! Apply now before Monday, 13 November (12:00 PM London time).

Fortunately, the EAP website and application portal have not been affected by the outage and can still be accessed.

We're still experiencing a technology outage, affecting all our technology services including our website, phone lines, and services on site in London and Yorkshire. 

Our Reading Rooms will be open for personal study but with very limited access to collection items and no access

There is still time to submit an EAP Grant application! The deadline is fast approaching. Less than three weeks to go...

Deadline: November 13th, 2023 @ 12PM GMT
More Info: eap.bl.uk/index.php/gran…

The EAP website will have some updates on Monday 9 October. This may mean it is unavailable for a short amount of time. We would like to apologise, in advance, if this causes any inconvenience.

Manaki Brothers' Archival Collection Declared Cultural Heritage in North Macedonia
Find out more on EAP blog: blogs.bl.uk/endangeredarch…

Applications are open for the next round of EAP grants! Don't forget our webinars next Wednesday 27th at 11am and 3pm London time. Register via our website to secure a place.

The call for applications to Round 19 is now open! Apply online via the EAP portal by Monday 13 Nov for grants starting in summer 2024. Check out the Grants pages of our website for more information.

Our list of webinars and autumn events organised with our hub partners is now available. Please go to our website to find out more. eap.bl.uk/regional-hubs

We have a new blog post 'Stampa Migrante: a Window on Multi-Lingual Egypt' written by Dr Lucia Carminati (EAP1474), which we are excited to make available. It is our first blog to be written in English, Arabic and Italian!
blogs.bl.uk/endangeredarch…

Grants Assistant vacancy in the Endangered Archives Programme:
ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_webre…

We’re looking for someone super-organised to help us with the annual competition, supporting the applicants and project teams.

The below includes over 1000 records scanned from from convents in Lima, Peru, namely: Convent of Santa Rosa de Santa María (1600-1999) and the Convents of San Jesus, María y José (the Clarisas Capuchinas) (1600-1899) eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1299

🔝❤️ 'Libro de las profesiones y recibimientos de las religiosas de este monasterio y convento real de Santa Rosa de Santa María, patrona de todas las Indias, nuestra madre...' (s. XVIII).

Monasterio de Santa Rosa de Santa María (Lima, Perú) eap.bl.uk/archive-file/E… Endangered Archives Programme

New collections online:

🟢Eastern Salient Manuscripts of Java (Indonesia)
🟢Documents in the Sufi shrine at Dhar (India)
🟢Archives of cloistered nuns in colonial Lima (Peru)
🟢Zoological archival material in the National Museums of Kenya

blogs.bl.uk/endangeredarch…

Photograph collection of the State Silk Museum in Georgia

Photos depict process of silk production, ethnography, portraits, natural environment, architecture, etc.

eap.bl.uk/project/EAP130…