BL Modern Manuscripts

FUNDED PHD: Four years of AHRC funding for a project on the suppression of the underground press in Restoration England, in collaboration with the Stationers' Company. Please pass on to any interested MA students or grads. jobs.ac.uk/job/DEW494/ahr…

All our upcoming public events are going ahead as planned. If you would like to purchase tickets for this weekend’s events, online booking is now available for: • Black to the Future presents Genre Marauders (in person): bit.ly/BLGenreMaraude… • Black to the Future presents Genre Marauders (online): bit.ly/BLGenreMaraude… • Late at the Library, Drexciyan Realms (in person): bit.ly/BLDrexciyanRea… • Festival of the Accused (in person/online): bit.ly/BLFestivalofth… Tickets for future events will be available again soon – thank you for bearing with us and we'll update as soon as we can.

How long does it take to rebind a book? 📕 You might remember Roger, one of our talented conservators (affectionately nicknamed ‘the Book Doctor’) from a video post a few months ago. Join him again as he shares how he’s ‘bringing items back to life’: bit.ly/46KcYYx

"Mapping the Dining Culture at Holland House, 1798–1806." Introducing the Dined Project, a database of the dinner book kept at Holland House, Kensington, between 1799 and 1806. (Add MS 51950). blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/20…

📚Call for Academic Partner! Explore the intersection of Creative Writing and Atlantic Slavery with @britishlibrary Join us for a groundbreaking PhD studentship, delving into the Library's extensive collections. Deadline: Nov 24, 2023. Details here: rb.gy/sm3hr

A masterclass for secondary English teachers with John Bowen at the 'Becoming the Brontës' exhibition at the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery, Leeds, Tue 19 Sep 2023, 16:15. bl.uk/events/becomin… Image: Mark Webster Photography / University of Leeds.

Harley MS 790, now added to the online catalogue, is a 17th century Dutch account of the Mughal emperors Humayun, Akbar and Jehangir, translated into English searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79… #BLHarley #HiddenCollections #Cataloguing

Hidden among some heraldic MSS - a delicious sounding cure for the gout, made with "best English honey" (plus a rather nice stag) searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79… #BLHarley #HiddenCollections #Cataloguing

17th century arms painter John Saunders was a dab hand at drawing exotic beasts, as this “dromedary” reveals searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79… MS 1100 #BLHarley #HiddenCollections

Upbeat heraldic stag for the weekend from an Irish heraldry manuscript painted by James Terry, Athlone Herald, exiled in France with King James II #BLHarley #HiddenCollections Harley MS 4039 searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79…

Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Orléans and sister to King Charles II, was a key negotiator of an important diplomatic agreement between England and France in 1670. blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/20…

Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Orléans, and the Secret Treaty of Dover (1670). New blogpost for @UntoldLives by @BL_ModernMSS PhD placement student Isabel Maloney. @BL_European shar.es/afNWn6

New blogpost about papers relating to Abdullah Quilliam (Add MS 89684), the Victorian solicitor who established Britain's first mosque. blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/20… This ceremonial trowel was presented by the United Methodist Free Churches to Quilliam’s mother, Harriet.

A knight in armour on his splendid steed painted in the friendship album of Dr John Hasfurt, a German doctor working in 17th-century Dorset: Harley MS 933 searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79… #BLHarley #HarleyMSS #HiddenCollections

A 17th-century arms painter takes a break from his accounts to sketch a boar in Harley MS 1045: Heraldry book of John Saunders searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79… #BLHarley #HiddenCollections

Our new exhibition Becoming the Brontës is now open in Leeds! Get the full scoop about the display and the treasures you can see here: bit.ly/3rcCXIq Co-curated by University of Leeds, the British Library and the Brontë Parsonage Museum #TheBrontes #FreeExhibition

We are heading to Leeds tomorrow for the opening of ‘Becoming the Brontës’. It has been a pleasure to work with colleagues at the Brotherton Library and the Brontë Parsonage Museum to tell the story of the Brontës through the remarkable items in the Blavatnik Honresfield Library.

Have you recently started your PhD? Curious about the British Library, its unique collections and how to find what you need? Discover our research resources and explore the practicalities of using the Library at our annual series of Doctoral Open Days: t.ly/9cqtH

@UntoldLives The motives behind Thornton’s writing four versions of her life are being tackled by an AHRC-funded project, ‘Alice Thornton’s Books’, which will also make freely available an online edition of all four manuscripts. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk

'Bringing up a chicken to peck out their eye': A niece's betrayal. Alice Thornton made sure that her life didn’t go untold by writing at least four versions of it in the 1660s to 1690s. New post @UntoldLives blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/20…