“‘Save our Sounds‘“ is the British Library’s programme to preserve the nation’s sound heritage.” With this statement, the British Library is addressing one of the most pressing conservatory issues of our times – how...
Google’s ‘Autocomplete’ function is meant to be a useful tool when searching for anything on the internet. The idea is to suggest search combinations most relevant to what you are looking for, in a...
On 7 October 2008 the University of Oxford launched its podcast site and has since then published more than 6,000 podcasts equalling more than 5,000 hours of amazing lectures by over 4,000 speakers from...
All over the world fans of J.R.R. Tolkien meet up, have a chat, discuss and interact on all things Middle-earth. In this installment of my fandom series we will visit New York City and...
If you have visited London recently you may have paid a substantial amount of money to have an outstanding view of London, offered via the topmost levels of the Shard, the highest skyscraper in...
The world premiere of ‘The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies” took place on December 1st and tomorrow 13 new countries will see the film come to the big screen, among them the USA, Canada,...
It is great to see that J.R.R. Tolkien is finally coming into his own – not only as one of the most popular authors of all times but also as a subject of serious...
In December 2013 the British Library released a million pictures into Flickr Commons, supported by the help of Microsoft, which are now available in the Public Domain. These pictures were mostly taken from books...
YouTube artist Sparky Sweets, PhD, has set himself one of the toughest tasks out there: Explaining literary classics in five minutes offering both a summary and an analysis people need to listen to! Luckily...
A half hour documentary on Tolkien’s experiences during the First World War has recently been published by King Edward’s School, Birmingham, where J.R.R. Tolkien went to school. Old Edwardians Zander and Elliot Weaver have...
