As of close of play today, Great Britain is third on the Olympic medal table. It’s like, it gives you a warm glow, innit.
» The advert for Olympic Cycles of Wolverhampton is from the Evanion Collection of Ephemera at the British Library.
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‘Breaking the Rules’ at the British Library
28 March 2008 – 4:50 pm
I realised that Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900 - 1937 was about to close, so I popped in today for a quick gander. As ever at the BL, the range of material was impressive: they really do own a lot of stuff. Eliot, Bretton, Man Ray, Lorca, Mayakovsky, [...]
Herba Parietis or the Wall Flower
24 March 2008 – 1:29 pm
The text reads:
Herba Parietis or the Wall Flower
As it Grew out of the Stone Chamber
Belonging to the
Metropolitan
Priſon of London Called
NEW GATE.
Being A History
Wch is Partly True
Partly Romantick
Morrally Devine
Wherby A Marriag
Betweene Reallity &
fancie is Solemnised
By Devinity
Written By: I: B: whilst he was A Prisoner therr.
Every time I start browsing the British Library collections online, I find [...]
Deletionists, Inclusionists, and the joy of the trivial.
23 March 2008 – 10:06 am
There is, I gather, an ongoing philosophical debate running behind the scenes of Wikipedia; one which will probably run forever. On the one side are the deletionists; on the other are the inclusionists. The question is how to deal with articles about less important subjects: one side generally favours deleting them, the other would prefer [...]
All Persons Visiting the Whale
5 December 2007 – 10:32 am
More from the ephemera collection at the British Library. You might also want to look at the Wonder of the Sea and American Jack, the Frog Man. Not to mention A.H. Minting, the Marvellous Spiral Ascensionist.
The Mammoth Brigade of Black Comedians
5 December 2007 – 10:25 am
More fascinating stuff from the British Library collection; this poster is from 1892.
‘Sacred’ at the British Library
19 September 2007 – 4:03 pm
I went yesterday to see Sacred at the British Library. I nearly missed it; the exhibition closes at the weekend. I’m glad I didn’t, as it was extraordinary.
It’s an exhibition of sacred texts from Islam, Christianity and Judaism, and the selection is seriously impressive. For example, the show includes the Lindisfarne Gospels and a bit [...]
More ephemera
14 July 2007 – 1:28 pm
More from the British Library’s Evanion Collection of Ephemera.
The British Library online collections
13 July 2007 – 10:46 am
The BL’s online collections are very pleasing, because there’s such a mix of stuff: English accent samples, Victorian newspapers, illuminated manuscripts, sheet music, photographs, watercolours, maps, wildlife recordings.
So when you put something into the search box, you never know what might turn up in the results.