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Showing posts with label British Library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Library. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

What does +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ mean?

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The British Library is looking for help trying to solve an inscription on a medieval sword... [ View the story "What does +NDXOXCHWDR...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Trying to find Harold, reading the Magna Carta, and going 3D: Medieval News Roundup

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This week we take a look at some stories about the search for King Harold (sigh), some interesting medieval archaeological discoveries, and ...
Monday, February 11, 2013

The Pope Resigns, the British Library digitizing medieval manuscripts, and more Richard III

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Beginning today, we will be changing how the Medieval News blog is presented. We hope to bring you a new post every day or two, which wil...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Medieval Arabic manuscripts, East India Company papers, to go online

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The British Library and Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development have unveiled an ambitious partnership to transfo...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

British Library purchases the St Cuthbert Gospel for £9 million

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The British Library has announced that it has successfully acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel, a miraculously well-preserved 7th century manus...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012

BBC show on The Private Lives Of The Medieval Kings to begin airing next week

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In Illuminations: The Private Lives of the Medieval Kings BBC Four will tell the story of the Medieval monarchy as preserved through stunnin...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

The Brilliance of Medieval England

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The historian David Horspool says that we are wrong to think of medieval England as backward. It produced art, architecture and books - on d...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Queen opens British Library manuscripts exhibition

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The Queen has opened a British Library exhibition featuring manuscripts which belonged to medieval kings and queens. The Royal Manuscripts: ...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Might be worth a look, Wills: The medieval manuscripts that told England's monarchs how to be a king

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If the Duke of Cambridge is looking for a little guidance on how to behave once he inherits the throne, he should head straight to the Briti...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

British Library launches new Medieval and Renaissance images app

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In conjunction with their exhibition Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination, the British Library has created a Royal Manuscripts app ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

British Library hosts Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination

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Beginning on November 11th, the British Library will be hosting a new exhibition entitled Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination. It ...
Monday, February 14, 2011

First Valentine: Lasting legacy of 500-year-old love

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Love it or hate it, even the most hardened anti-Romeo will be hard pressed to avoid Valentine's Day this year. But as an exhibit at the ...
Monday, September 27, 2010

British Library digitises Greek manuscripts

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The British Library has digitised over a quarter of its Greek manuscripts (284 volumes) for the first time and made them freely available on...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Macclesfield Alphabet Book bought by British Library

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A rare medieval alphabet book will remain in Great Britain, after the British Library announced that it had raised the £600,000 needed to pu...