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Digital Scholarship @ British Library
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Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators were at https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/

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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is the largest library in the world, with an estimated collection of over 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit library, it receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the United Kingdom. The library operates as a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. .. more

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We’re delighted to announce Dr Paul Bate as the British Library’s new Chief Executive

Joining us from the UK Space Agency, Paul brings experience supporting world-class research communities.
We look forward to welcoming his expertise at the Library.

Read the full announcement here
link.bl.uk/fc6

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Seal impressions can reveal ownership, reading practices, and the journeys of manuscripts across collections. A new DFG-funded project is creating a database of seals from manuscripts in the Islamic world. It will link images and descriptions and develop tools for automated recognition
New DFG Project for Exploring Seal Impressions
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The Humanities and Data Science (HaDS, or H&DS), formerly known as Turing's Humanities and Data Science group, is delighted to be among the new UK-IE DH groups!

Find out more, join, at our work in progress site: had-uk.github.io

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#GreenLibraries Week 2026 is one month away! Look at this incredibly rich programme coordinated by Head of Sustainability, Catherine Ross @britishlibrary.bsky.social lnkd.in/eqSjUiF4
I'm contributing to a session on setting up a staff sustainability network: lnkd.in/efEMPV83 -- free registration!
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🎉 We're excited to welcome 6 new Community Interest Groups to the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association!

From #webarchives, #pedagogy, and #openknowledge, our CIG network now includes 10 active groups.

🔗 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/21/2... #DH #DigitalHumanities
Announcement: New CIGs | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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