Following its recent migration to the latest version of WordPress, the blog is getting a makeover tomorrow! Soon we will have all the beautifications we used to enjoy before something fell over and took them all away just as Covid-19 …
What is interesting? Follow the short historical trail from the Interesting Thing of the Day blog, through the early incarnation of this blog, to a new app that helps you capture what interests you.
There are lots of lovely new books coming into the library at the moment but Brent Luvaas’ Street Style: An ethnography of fashion blogging seemed an appropriate choice. If you’re reading this at home, you’ll be pleased to know that …
www.independent.co.uk With the news that the Independent and the Independent on Sunday is to close down, it has prompted the British Library to publish a very interesting blog about the future of the newspaper. Read it here: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/thenewsroom/2016/02/from-print-to-digital.html
Magna Carta, ‘The Great Charter’, paved the way for modern government by establishing in 1225 the principal that no-one, not even the monarch, was above the law and giving all “free men” the right to justice and a fair trial. While only three clauses are …
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Welcome to the new Library blog “Liblog”. This replaces (but includes) our old “Thing of the Day” and is intended to provide a wider range of posts covering activities, services and people within the Library as well as matters of …
