BL European

Newly restored online: Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook, (Arundel MS 263), written in his characteristic mirror-writing with diagrams, drawings, brief texts, and personal notes. You can consult the entire manuscript online now: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-00…

Fully funded AHRC CDP Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanitie…

The German Studies Library Group is offering a bursary for an early career library professional/library para-professional/library assistant to attend its 40th anniversary conference in Switzerland, from 15-19 September 2026. Details & how to apply here gslg.org.uk/2026/03/05/40t…

A British Library Chevening Fellowship focused on our Southeast European collections is open to applications. The project will examine our historic Balkan collections using datasets records to enhance metadata, uncover rare texts and promote Balkan history tinyurl.com/58x447t8

P.R. Harris's comprehensive history of the British Museum Library from 1753-1973 has been digitised and is now freely available online - all 883 pages of it! More info and link here: bl.uk/stories/blogs/…

Want to level up your library career this year? We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme. Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026

Explore #French-language materials from the #IndiaOfficeRecords on the #QatarDigitalLibrary, in our new two-part series. The first part covers records relating to #France. Now on the #QDL bit.ly/49zCpRf

Planning or starting a PhD? Join us and our colleagues from @BL_EcclesInst and @LondonU's Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies on 28 November for a Doctoral Training Day focusing on Europe, the Americas and Oceania events.bl.uk/events/doctora…

We're looking for academic partners for a Collaborative Doctoral Project on post-war Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement. Details here bl.uk/stories/blogs/…

Then @sureed67 and Hanna Dettlaff-Kuznicka will be talking about propaganda in Nazi- and Soviet-era children's books leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/talk-a-…

Three of our team are giving presentations on 10 November as part of the Leeds City of Languages festival. First, Katya Rogatchevskaia offers an Alphabet Adventure for 7-11 year olds (and their grown-ups) leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/an-alph…

Join us in November for a 2-day event looking at how materials created and shared in times of conflict are selected, collected and preserved. Details and booking here events.bl.uk/events/curatin…

Our blogs have a new look: bit.ly/BL-Blogs All previously published blogs will be available in our archive, launching in coming weeks. Watch this space for an update on when that goes live.

As there was no room for garden gnomes in the current BL 'Unearthed' exhibition, we've given them a blog post to compensate blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

The 7th GSLG/BL Graham Nattrass Lecture is on 24 June at 6pm. Prof. Roger Paulin will speak on Anna Katharina Emmerich’s "Das bittere Leiden unseres Herrn Jesu Christi". Attendance free but booking required. Contact details here gslg.org.uk/2025/06/03/rem…

Co-curator of the current @britishlibrary exhibition "Unearthed: the Power of Gardening", @miravale, finds books from our Italian collections to complement some of the exhibits in today's blog post blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

Our annual Seminar on Textual Bibliography is on 9 June! Programme and booking details here blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

To mark #veday2025 we look at liberation and remembrance in the Netherlands and among the UK's Dutch community blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

This week we're joining @GermanEmbassy, @GI_London1 and @DAAD_UK_Ireland in giving a #shoutoutforgerman as we take a look at over three centuries resources for lucky British learners of German blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…

Our #MedievalWomen exhibition has now closed, but in today's blog post you can read about St Lidwina, one of the extraordinary women who featured in it (and discover why she might be blessing Dutch ice-skaters!) blogs.bl.uk/european/2025/…