🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Very proud to be awarded a #QAPrize for the work of our world-leading Centre for Robert Burns Studies The Centre for Robert Burns Studies. Queen's Anniversary Prizes celebrate excellence, innovation & public benefit in work carried out by UK colleges and universities. gla.ac/3ulIiis #WorldChangingGlasgow

Explore the remarkable correspondence of music publishers George Augener acquired by British Library earlier this year: youtube.com/watch?v=gCiD4q… The Augener collection will be featured in our #BLPlaylist on 19 September. Get your tickets now! …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/new-trea…

We are looking forward to the evening of New Treasures of the British Library on 19 September. Here is the programme. Book your tickets here: …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/new-trea…

'Scholars have sought the existence of this book for hundreds of years': caburdenraremaps.com/map/the-course… Come and hear how the British Library Collections Trust helped to purchase this item. Tickets for our #BLPlaylist on 19 Sept are available here: …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/new-trea…

PSA for UK academics: when next you visit the British Library, you’ll need a new reader card. It’s part of their recovery of services after the cyber attack. So take your ID.

We have a list of every Anglo-Saxon whose name we know: it's an astonishing achievement & research tool. It took 10 years & is now available again: pase.ac.uk Reeves, moneyers, pilgrims; anchorites, assassins, archpriests; sisters, sons & seventeenth-grandfathers...

This autumn at the Library, explore hidden worlds, eerie tales and poetic wonders 🍂 Discover new treasures in our collection, nature-inspired poetry, the secrets of the Library Cave at Dunhuang, and strange, uncanny and spine-tingling stories at our Tales of the Weird Festival.

Join us British Library on Thurs 19 Sept to celebrate the work of the British Library Collections Trust in helping fund new acquisitions for the Library, from Edward III & Elizabeth I to Elizabeth Barrett Browning & James Bond, via Brahms & much else. Tickets are pay what you can

We're looking forward to this event on Friday. There is still time to register if you want to joins us. Curious Travellers

A very interesting event at the British Library on Thursday highlighting some of their new acquisitions, including very personal letters between Ian Fleming & his wife Anne that I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of & will be talking about …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/new-trea…

PhD studentship alert. Come and work with Euan Roger The National Archives and Professor Marion Turner University of Oxford on an amazing project exploring the environment and imagination of Geoffrey Chaucer. Details here: oocdtp.ac.uk/ox-cda-turner-…

Really looking forward to seeing the book of the BL Medieval Women exhibition in print (& in the BL shop!) Feel privileged to have contributed to this along with some fantastic co-authors (and fabulous editors, pictured below!)

Please FOLLOW & REPOST The Centre for Robert Burns Studies and help us reengage with followers old & new (following frustrating loss of the previous account). Don’t miss exciting research developments & public events we’re looking forward to sharing over the coming weeks & months! 👀

Next week, access to around 1,000 of our digitised manuscripts will be restored. This will be the first tranche of manuscripts to be released, making them available for the first time since the cyber-attack.

Just published. My new book on Early English texts, including The Grave; on language, history, fiction, Magna Carta, script, and the date of the Tremulous Hand. Arc Humanities Press — thank you!

We are pleased to announce the launch of a substantially updated version of Locating London's Past, the website which allows you to map a wide body of digital resources pertaining to early modern and eighteenth-century London onto John Rocque's 1746 map. locatinglondon.org

The great Bob Darnton speaking ⁦St John's College⁩ on the eve of the opening of their new library on ‘Libraries as time machines’

Our snazzy Medieval Women exhibition book is now available to pre-order at the British Library online bookshop 🤩 Can we tempt you? Read more about it on the blog: 🔗blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

The first installment of restored access to digitised manuscripts in the British Library includes 46 manuscripts from Asian and African collections, in Arabic, Chagatai, Persian, Ethiopian and Bugis blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-afri…

I went to the fantastic LambethPalaceLibrary last week to the exhibition on women's books. Take a look at this beauty! A hand-coloured book of hours of Margaret Beaufort's with a colophon referring to Margaret and her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth of York, c. 1494.