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Over a million book illustrations released to the commons
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 4:55 pm | British Library
We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, ... More >>
‘Lost’ Nelson Mandela Court Recordings
Tuesday, 13 February 2001, 12:30 am | British Library
Astonishing court recordings of the last speech that Nelson Mandela made before he was sentenced to life imprisonment can be heard for the first time thanks to the intervention of the British Library’s National Sound Archive. More >>