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• Brian May wows audience with set of Victorian photos

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Queen guitarist unveils his new book, collecting stereographic photography from the 19th century Its not common to arrive at the British Library for an evening talk on a charming book of Victorian photographs and to be confronted by a minder roughly the size and shape of a Smeg fridge, sitting with his massive back ...
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• Mirror image? | Theo Hobson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Photography and film, once thought of as tools of rationalism, in fact reflect our fantasies and our fallenness What is the relationship between religion and photography? I pondered this as I visited the current exhibition at the British Library, Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs . ...
  2 days ago

• Voices from WWI speak again in British Library

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  "It is the business of educated people to speak so that no-one may be able to tell in what county their childhood was passed." Despite efforts by Victorians to eradicate them, dialects of English in Great Britain continue to vary greatly , much to the consternation of many traditionalists . But a recently ...
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• ‘Points of View’ at the British Library

  
  Heraclitean Fire — Authority: 118
  I just visited the slightly uninspiringly titled ‘Points of View’ exhibition at the British Library, which is an exhibition of nineteenth century photography. I’ve been very impressed with the BL’s temporary exhibitions since they moved to the new site; they obviously have an absolutely staggering amount of ...
  4 days ago

• World War I audio archive

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 625
  The British Library has acquired an audio archive of British prisoners recorded at POW camps in Germany during World War I. The World’s Patrick Cox will have more details in today’s show. (Audio available after 5PM Eastern) The World in Words podcast The British Library
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• Lost British accents uncovered

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  British Library gets recordings of PoWs, captured by a German linguist, highlighting regional accents Crackling and quavering over the distance of almost a century, the voice of George Campbell from Aberdeen still rings out sweet and cheerful. His song was the Bonnie Banks oLoch Lomond, and although on 22 July 1916 ...
  4 days ago

• The birth of photography at the British Library

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 494
  Its probably true to say that most people in the world today, with the exception of those living in very remote areas, carry in their heads certain photographic images. These pictures stay with us for various reasons - they may have a haunting beauty like the portrait of the green-eyed Afghan girl which appeared on ...
  5 days ago

• Our new business information wiki – Business Essentials on the Web

  
  In through the outfield — Authority: 110
  As part of our continuing experimination with all things Web 2.0 (Social Media) we have created a wiki for essential business information . Still currently in beta, this wiki is a designed to allow any of my British Library business information colleagues to add useful links.   But more revolutionary (for the ...
  1 week ago

• What is a CRM, and when are they best used by small business? Lucidica workshop Tuesday 3 November

  
  In through the outfield — Authority: 110
  This morning I managed to find the time to attend a workshop by one of our partners. Lucidica are a relatively new partner for the Business & IP Centre and currently provide six workshops related to IT and business . This particular half day workshop on what is a CRM (Customer Relationship Management), and ...
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• Icons : British Library Windows Complete Icon

  
  Virtual Download — Authority: 164
  British Library Windows Complete Icon 570 ICO | 570 PNG | 256х256 | 141,3 Mb Click on Link Below To Start Download Icons : British Library Windows Complete Icon
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• Britains first storytelling laureate named as Cumbrian Taffy Thomas

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Britain is set to enjoy its first storytelling laureate in the form of eccentricallyclad Cumbrian Taffy Thomas.
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• British Library, Samuel Coleridge Taylor: The Neglected Superstar 10 Nov 2009

  
  AfriClassical — Authority: 133
  [ Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto, Legend, Romance; Lorraine McAslan, violin; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor; Lyrita SRCD.317 (2007) (61:37)] The British Library in London announces: “Samuel Coleridge Taylor: The Neglected Superstar, Tuesday, ...
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• Nelsons Column under construction among old photographs exhibited by British Library

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  William Fox Talbot who helped invent the negative took images in 1840s.
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• The British Library

  
  The Punekar — Authority: 149
  Libraries represent houses of knowledge that offer an array of books to not only educate the masses but also to entertain them. The British Library is one such example that has been performing both these function to the ‘T’ over the past 50 years now. The British Library is one of the main libraries in India, with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Painting contest by British Library

  
  The India Post — Authority: 146
  Chandigarh, October 26 : The British Library in association with ArriveSAFE, a local NGO, will be organising a painting competition on road safety and the entries for the contest will be accepted till November 7. According to sources, the competition was open to all schools and colleges in the tri-city and adjoining ...
  2 weeks ago

• Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats Event at British Library, London, October 26, 2PM

  
  Serge the Concierge — Authority: 136
  In less than an hour (at 2PM London Time) the British Library is hosting an event for children of all ages celebrating the 2009 edition of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot. The poems dedicated to our furry friends are unchanged from the 1939 original. Some of them inspired the musical Cats. The ...
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• One of the Rarest Stamps in the World, the Mauritius Orange-red One Penny, to be Sold

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  One of the 12 stamps of Mauritius which are the rarest in the world will be sold for €2 million (93.5 million Mauritian Rupees). Official sources at the Mauritius Post Office indicate that one precious example, the orange-red one penny belongs to a Rumanian collector Ion Ivan, from the town of Braila in Rumania. ...
  3 weeks ago

• State-of-the-art National Film Center to be Created on London’s South Bank

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  A new state-of-the-art national film center is to be created on London’s South Bank, thanks to a Government commitment of £45 million. It is one of a number of announcements of flagship cultural projects to help secure Britain’s future as a world leader in the creative industries. They include major extensions ...
  4 weeks ago

• Antonia Fraser and me, 20 years on

  
  Helen Smith — Authority: 120
  Last night I saw Antonia Fraser again, after a break of about 20 years. She wont have missed me or thought about me in the intervening period as we werent introduced the first time round. We were in the Groucho Club - it had only just opened and was very much the place to be - and she went past me, with Harold ...
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• My blog reaches 30,000 visits

  
  In through the outfield — Authority: 110
  I don’t rate this as a ‘real’ story, but I can’t resist recording the fact that according to my free Sitemeter account the number of visitors to this blog has now reached the 30,000 mark. I am aware that many of my visitors are coming via Google, so are accidental tourists rather than regular readers, ...
  4 weeks ago

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