Dance Research – let’s explore this journal online!
Calling all dance and performing arts students and staff! Are you one for making New Year’s Resolutions? Whether you are or not, now is a great time to explore the gems that are available...
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Interested in community or participatory arts?
Then check out our subscription to the Journal of Arts and Communities. The coverage of this journal encompasses active creative collaboration between artists and people across a range of communities including visual arts, media,...
Arts and health research
Are you interested in researching the interdisciplinary field of arts and health? We subscribe to the international ‘Arts and Health‘ journal which covers research, policy and practice. There is interest across the world about...
Marina Abramovic takes over Sky Arts
Did you see Marina Abramović take over the Sky Arts channel? One of our academic liaison librarians had this to say after she watched it – “What I saw was astonishing, thought provoking, deeply...
Black History Month – follow up
For this year’s Black History Month, curator of classical music at The British Library, Johnathan Summers, chose to write a short piece about Eddie South who was a black American violinist. He explores Eddie’s...
Christmas card designs
Are you someone who writes their Christmas cards early, or do you suddenly realise the last posting date has come and you haven’t even started writing them?! Do you buy your Christmas cards, or...
Musical oral history – local connections
The British Library has a collection of oral history of jazz in Britain. A local lad, James Howe, features in this archive. He was born in County Durham in 1917 and served as band boy...
Live Theatre – 5 plays of Christmas
Are you feeling Christmassy? Do you usually go to live performances around Christmas time, do you make this a tradition? What will you do this year, when the doors are closed to so many...
Free webinars for PhD students
Calling all researchers! What do you know about the British Library? Does it have anything relevant to your research? The British Library are running a series of webinars in the new year where you...
Arabic music record sleeves – what they can tell us
Do you collect vinyl? Do you get inspired by music record sleeves? Hazem Jamjourm is a Gulf History Audio Curator and Cataloguer at the British Library. He has blogged about how record sleeves have...
Ebook error on Library Catalogue – what does it mean?
The Library have received some reports from students about an error message when accessing ebooks on the Library Catalogue. Unfortunately you may see this error message when accessing a book on our Catalogue if...
Digitising Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius
Edward Elgar’s, The Dream of Gerontius, is a setting of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s poem of the same name for voices and orchestra. It is an important work of Elgar which helped identify him...
Transforming theatre from physical to digital
These are challenging times for live theatre – how do you perform to audiences with social distancing in place? Professer Aebischer and Dr Rachael Nicholas from the University of Exeter have produced a...
MA Degree show 2020 – Creativity in a time of Covid
Head over to Sunderland Creatives and explore work by students on our MA Photography, MA Photography, MA Design and MA Glass and Ceramics. Lockdown caused great challenges for these very practical subjects but our...
Live Wired…. digital programme from The Live Theatre, Newcastle
10 minutes to….call home is the first offering of the Live Theatre in Newcastle of their new digital programme, Live Wired. This innovative programme opens up the work of more artists and gives access...