The exhibition was complemented by a study day and a wonderful evening of readings and music from the collection and from Zweig’s own works. In February we put on a display of manuscripts from the Stefan Zweig Collection in the Library’s Treasures Gallery to mark both the 75th anniversary of Zweig’s death and the publication of the catalogue of the literary and historical manuscripts in the BL Zweig collection. The Revolution wasn’t the only anniversary we commemorated with an exhibition this year. Many blog posts in the year picked up on the exhibition’s themes, focused on particular exhibits, or mentioned items that sadly didn’t make the final exhibition shortlist.

Russia loomed large this year as European Collections were involved in one of the Library’s major exhibitions, ‘ Russian Revolution – Hope, Tragedy, Myths’, marking the centenary of the Revolution. And if you think all this nostalgia is a bad thing, we hope you will at least enjoy the pictures, which we’ve not used before, of Christmas and New Year greetings cards from our collection of Russian postcards (HS.74/2027). If you’re an established reader of our blog, you might be reminded of some favourites or spot something you missed, and if you’re new to it, we hope this will give you an idea of the range of countries and topics that we cover, and of the different voices – both staff members and guest bloggers – who contribute. As the year draws to an end, we thought we’d take a look back over our blogging activity in 2017.

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