Digitising certain types of material can cause great difficulty when it comes to clearing their copyright. [read more...]

Digitised manuscripts bring immense new research possibilities for scholars. [read more...]

ike many political movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Suffragettes and Suffragists made great use of colourful banners in their marches and parades. [read more...]

Besides their chosen professions of naturalist and painter, two great figures of the Victorian era, Charles Darwin and James McNeill Whistler, were both prolific letter writers. [read more...]

Dr James Ginther, of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds, sees similarities in the process of creating medieval manuscripts and electronic texts. [read more...]

A common problem for university librarians can be the sudden demand for a number of texts when those texts are filed are under 'essential reading' on a first-year reading list. Mrs. Susan Lake, of the Theology Faculty Library at the University of Oxford, faces such a problem on a regular basis. [read more...]

The Virtual Vellum project provides distributed access to research-quality digitisations of folios from the Chronicles of Jean Froissart, the principal historical source for the first phase of the 100 Years War between England and France. Images are digitally photographed and stored as TIFFs. [read more...]