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• Sustainable Supply Chains workshop

  
  In through the outfield — Authority: 120
  Today I attended an excellent workshop on Sustainable Supply Chains. It was presented by Stephen Taiwo, who was the sustainable policy adviser and architect of the Government Office for London and Defra’s Sustainable Food Procurement project. He now works for Supply London – an LDA and European funded initiative, ...
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• Extraordinary Entrepreneurs Evening – oh what a night!

  
  Women Unlimited — Authority: 128
  What a fantastic night it was!  Women Unlimited held its first ever Extraordinary Entrepreneurs evening in the British Library last night, and judging by the fact that the women had to be asked to vacate the dining area twice, it is safe to say it was a resounding success!  What better way to celebrate Women’s ...
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• My podcast on the Guardian’s Small is Beautiful website

  
  In through the outfield — Authority: 120
  An interview I recorded a couple of weeks ago has now made it onto the Guardian’s Small is Beautiful website . The aim of the recently launched section is to show why growing firms are the economy’s best hope.  And to highlight the potential for small business to lead Britain out of recession, by focussing ...
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• Karen Blakeman likes our business essentials wiki

  
  In through the outfield — Authority: 120
  I’ve just read Karen Blakeman’s latest blog post which mentions our new  business essentials wiki in glowing terms. This is high praise indeed given Karen’s legendary knowledge and experience of all things related to business information. And the fact her website  Business Information on the Internet ...
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• Launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) at The British Library

  
  In through the outfield — Authority: 120
  Peter Jones and Priya Lakhani from Masala Masala discuss enterprise education I spent Monday morning at the launch of GEW from the comfort of The British Library conference centre. The event was well chaired by Simon Jack from the BBC , and included some light-hearted banter between him and Peter Jones (of ...
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• BL launches business essentials wiki

  
  Karen Blakeman's Blog — Authority: 447
  The British Library’s Business and IP Centre has launched a wiki: Business Essentials on the Web ( http://bl-business-essentials.wikispaces.com ). The wiki aims to provide business information that is aimed at entrepreneurs and SMEs. Topics covered currently include business planning, grants and ...
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• In conversation with Lord Sugar

  
  In through the outfield — Authority: 120
  Tonight was definitely one of the highlights of Global Entrepreneurship Week for me. Our event in the British Library conference centre In conversation with Lord Sugar was full to bursting. As time is short and it is now after midnight, I am going to post my notes of his gems and leave it at that. Is now a good ...
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• Scholars hail discovery of Rani Jhansi letter in London

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov 17 (IANS) Scholars have found a previously unknown letter written by the Rani of Jhansi in what has been termed a “hugely significant” discovery, the BBC reported Tuesday.Lakshmibai wrote the letter shortly before the 1857 Indian mutiny.The BBC said academics described the discovery of the letter as ...
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• Global Entrepreneurship Week: Small businesses SMEs economic recovery plan

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Global Entrepreneurship Week aims to show how small businesses will be the driving force behind the economic recovery reports Philip Smith.
  2 weeks ago

• British Librarys Bitter Digital Milestone

  
  open... — Authority: 558
  Oh look, the British Library thinks it has passed a milestone : The British Library has added the 500,000th item to its long-term Digital Library System. The milestone item was a digitised copy of a newspaper originally published in 1864 and scanned as part of the Librarys 19th Century British Library Newspapers ...
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• Business and IP Centre launches New Business Podcast featuring… me

  
  In through the outfield — Authority: 120
  I have to say I was somewhat nervous about being interviewed for Business Bytes . This our new monthly podcast narrated by business journalist Jamie Oliver, and designed to give inspiration and practical advice with the challenges in setting up and growing your own business. Actually, I just do the inroduction ...
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• Brian May wows audience with set of Victorian photos

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  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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• Business & IP Centre goes ‘On the Buses’

  
  In through the outfield — Authority: 120
  Although this has to be one of the most culturally embarassing references I have used in this blog, I couldn’t resist – now that we are advertising on London buses (see my YouTube link below if you are in need of a cringefest). This is part of our promotional activities around Global Entrepreneurship Week , for ...
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• Mirror image? | Theo Hobson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  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 . ...
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• Voices from WWI speak again in British Library

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 747
  "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 ...
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• World War I audio archive

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 591
  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: 987
  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 ...
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• The birth of photography at the British Library

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 490
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  In through the outfield — Authority: 120
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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