Liz White

Bookplate of daffodils by Anne Pratt

🌼 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!🌼Happy St. David's Day!🌼

Daffodils have been a national symbol of Wales since the 19th century.

This bookplate of daffodils is from ‘Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain’ by the botanical illustrator Anne Pratt (1806-1893).

The British Library from the Manuscripts Room

Visiting The Good Place.

A small tan and white Lhasa Apso is perched on someone’s legs. The person is lying on a sofa, with a copy of “The Stone Book” by Alan Garner

Saturday reading.

we have that within which passes show on the post-literate world, the crassness of language and why Hamnet was always going to be hard to film. plus! what is 'just enough internet'? and the stationery renaissance

this is not about current events.

it's a bit about Hamnet and a lot about how hard it is to write about things that are too tender and sacred for language, and how the internet of video might make harder.

it's just about art, if you want some art today.

naomialderman.substack.com/p/we-have-th...

O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast by Robert Burns - read by Professor Peter Mackay, Scotland's Makar – our national poet. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Happy #BurnsNight from everyone at the University of St Andrews.

#EverToExcel

Our latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February.

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It turns out that readers in the UK still love libraries. Authors love libraries and readers because they get a small payment - Public Lending Right - every time a book is borrowed. Thank you, libraries and readers, you've made my day! #libraries #PLR #TinyJoys

Public Lending Right (PLR) - authors, illustrators - British Library Published authors, illustrators, editors, translators or audiobook narrators could could receive up to £6,600 per year from public library loans.

It's PLR statement day! Reminder that if you have a book in libraries in the UK and Ireland you can sign up to get your Public Lending Right - a little bit of money every time someone borrows one of your books! www.bl.uk/services/plr

H/t to @mayfaircynic.bsky.social who suggested the Secret Maps exhibit at the British Library.

Where else would you see a beautiful map of the world, an Enigma Machine, an AirTag and Lady Mountbatten’s underpants.

I went to the Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library last night, and it was GREAT. Hurry along before it closes in a week or so!

This submarine cable linked Cornwall to India, in 1870. Usually I'm too interested in the ancient world to be impressed by the modern one, but that is pretty cool

A copy of “The Dark is Rising” by Susan Cooper. A cartoon image of a boy with a mysterious rider behind him and a full moon.

“This night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.” #TheDarkIsRising.

Today's Lines at Lunchtime is 'Another Night Before Christmas' by Carol Ann Duffy!

#LinesAtLunchtime #Libraries #BookSky #CarolAnnDuffy #Poetry

A very delicate, finely-detailed mixed-media illustration looking down through winter trees passed a herd of deer towards a wooded valley and golden winter sunrise

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 20
‘Winter Sunrise’
Artist: SR Badmin

OMG. this is art

a living room with a fireplace and the words cozy time on the bottom Alt: a cartoon style living room with a fireplace, 2 comfortable chairs, 2 sleeping cats, a bookshelf and the words cozy time.

Wishing you a cozy warm spot to read, watch movies, and enjoy a quiet moment of peace.

A big warm hug of a thread, plus amazing artwork, cats, cultural history and a happy ending. 🧑‍🍳’s kiss.

Person viewing an exhibition related to Jane Austen, featuring displays of historical clothing and documents.

Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today ✨

Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels.

Now on display at the Weston Library.

#JaneAusten

British Library catalogue search page displaying the new main catalogue, designed to make finding and requesting published items easier.

We’re excited to share our new main catalogue, making it easier for you to find and request the majority of our published collection. We’ve also launched an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Find out how to start searching and requesting on our website bit.ly/BLNewCatalogues

75 Years of the BNB (and bewitching Narnia books) Marking 75 years of the British National Bibliography (BNB).

British Library: 75 Years of the British National Bibliography / BNB (and bewitching Narnia books)

https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/75-years-of-the-bnb

I’m sorry to hear the studio is closing, but this is an incredibly thoughtful, honest and values-driven post, which sums up what I admire about your work!

The very modern, red brick with red and green trim, British Library alongside the opulent red and green St Pancras hotel.

The very modern, red brick with red and green trim, British Library alongside the opulent red and green St Pancras hotel.

I always mean to take photos of this, but always forget - I rather like the design of the British Library and how it compares and contrasts to the fabulously opulent St Pancras hotel...

Always makes me smile when I come out of Kings Cross St Pancras station.

Rainbow over The Crick, The British Library and St Pancras station. 🌈

Grey October Sky
Frank Johnston
n.d.

All the best Steve!

Connections
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Print featuring three bottles of different shapes in a row all filled with blue flowers and resting on a surface with a busy pattern in blue

'Cool blues' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

A collage of images including a person with headphones on working at a desk, a person weaving straw together and someone in a lab holding a bottle. A open padlock graphic is laid over each image and text reads Open and Engaged 2025. Who owns our knowledge? Monday 20th, Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd October, online conference..

Don't miss our free, online Open and Engaged Conference 2025, as part of #InternationaOpenAccessWeek.

This year we're exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.

Register for free: bit.ly/BLEngagedCon...

Blogs and updates from curators, staff and guests - British Library Get the latest stories and updates from our curators, cataloguers, reference staff and guest contributors. Find out more about amazing items in our collection.

British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social‬:
Our blogs have a new look: https://bit.ly/BL-Blogs

All previously published blog posts will be available in our archive, launching in coming weeks. Watch this space for an update on when that goes live.

Doctoral Open Days | British Library oin one of our Doctoral Open Days for an introduction into the areas of our collection which may be relevant to you, alongside practical tips for using the

New & aspiring MA/PhD students! Join us to learn how we can help you with your research at the first of our Doctoral Open Days 2025:

16 Oct - 'Getting Started at The British Library' (online)
31 Oct - 'Music, Sound and Vision' (in person)

More info, events & tickets: events.bl.uk/whats-on/doc...

It's all happening for us train enthusiasts (or is it just me?) as today marks 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 - the birth of the modern railway.
So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂