Articles about 'British Library'

How will history tell our stories?

24 March 2025

Historian Helen McCarthy helps us make sense of our recent past. She infuses her subjects – from working mothers to modern retirees – with urgency and personality.

Kirstie Stage in the gardens at Christ's College

The graduate student rewriting Deaf histories and disability histories

05 January 2024

When Kirstie Stage was diagnosed with hearing loss, she realised that the experiences of Deaf and disabled people were missing from the history books. Kirstie is determined to bring these narratives to the fore.

Earliest-known children’s adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library

14 June 2017

A chance discovery in the British Library has led to the discovery and reproduction of the earliest-known children’s adaptation of one of Japan’s greatest works of literature.

Buildings for books: the complete story of the library

13 November 2013

For 20 years architectural historian Dr James Campbell waited for someone to write a definitive book about libraries. When he decided to write one himself, his research took him to 82 libraries in 21 countries. The Library: A World History is much overdue but well worth waiting for.

Graphic showing worldwide Internet usage

Click to save the nation’s digital memory

05 April 2013

Billions of web pages from millions of websites, as well as public Facebook posts and tweets, will be preserved for time immemorial from tomorrow by Cambridge University Library and five other major libraries.

Extract from the New Testament in Syriac from the sixth century

The riddle of the Syriac double dot: it’s the world’s earliest question mark

21 July 2011

Manuscripts written in Syriac, an ancient language of the Middle East, are peppered with mysterious dots. Among them is the vertical double dot or zagwa elaya. A Cambridge academic thinks that the zagwa elaya is the world’s earliest question mark.

Articles about 'British Library'

How will history tell our stories?

The graduate student rewriting Deaf histories and disability histories

Earliest-known children’s adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library

Buildings for books: the complete story of the library

Click to save the nation’s digital memory

The riddle of the Syriac double dot: it’s the world’s earliest question mark

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