I chose this interview with the war photographer Don McCullin to gain a deeper understanding of photography as a profession and, more specifically, photojournalism. From Finsbury Park, London, Don McCullin has collaborated with many national and intern… read more
Lifecycle of the Death’s-head hawk-moth in Elizabeth Anne Kemp, Drawings and watercolours of English insects. 1803–25. Add Ms 17696-17698. On Monday 22 May, I was listening to BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week. It was on ‘birds and moths’ and featured the B… read more
For this week’s ‘Recording of the Week’ the Library’s Schools Team celebrates Windrush Day. Windrush Day is this week on June 22nd, the date in 1948 when the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. This week, and all year round, the British Library Schools … read more
An illustration of a person hanging from the gallows; a witch burning a sleeping couple while a demon carries off a child. Woodcut, 1790. Death and murder are hardly rare events in British folksong, but there’s something uniquely disturbing about the i… read more
A northern gannet, a seabird with a white body, beige head and blue eyes, sits on a pile of blue and red fishing rope and holds a clump of it in its beak. Photo credit: Thomas Haeusler. Today is World Environment Day 2023. This year, it is hosted by Cô… read more