Medieval History
The British Library and Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development have unveiled an ambitious partnership to transform people?s understanding of the history of the Middle East, and the region?s relationship with Britain and the rest of the world.
The £8.7 million project was announced this morning at the British Library?s flagship building in St Pancras, London. Its plans will digitise more than 500,000 pages from the archives of the East India Company and India Office, in addition to 25,000 pages of medieval Arabic manuscripts ? all of which will be made freely available online for the first time.
The digitisation will take place over the next three years at the British Library, in close cooperation with the new Qatar National Library, and much information will be available in both Arabic and English. Once live, the site will also offer users the opportunity to add their own Gulf-related stories and memories, enabling them to contribute to the online resource, whether by sharing images of mementoes and old photographs, or by recounting the stories their grandparents once told them. In this way, historical items from living memory will be added to the archive of items dating back several centuries.
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Medieval History
Medieval Arabic manuscripts, East India Company papers, to go online
The British Library and Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development have unveiled an ambitious partnership to transform people?s understanding of the history of the Middle East, and the region?s relationship with Britain and the rest of the world.
The £8.7 million project was announced this morning at the British Library?s flagship building in St Pancras, London. Its plans will digitise more than 500,000 pages from the archives of the East India Company and India Office, in addition to 25,000 pages of medieval Arabic manuscripts ? all of which will be made freely available online for the first time.
The digitisation will take place over the next three years at the British Library, in close cooperation with the new Qatar National Library, and much information will be available in both Arabic and English. Once live, the site will also offer users the opportunity to add their own Gulf-related stories and memories, enabling them to contribute to the online resource, whether by sharing images of mementoes and old photographs, or by recounting the stories their grandparents once told them. In this way, historical items from living memory will be added to the archive of items dating back several centuries.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
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A collaboration between the University of Oxford?s Bodleian Library and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana at the Vatican will bring historical texts dating back to the Middle Ages into the digital era. 1.5 million pages from both collections will be...
- Gale Adds Medieval And Renaissance Works To British Literary Manuscripts Online
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