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The British Library now welcomes applications from academics of postgraduate standing currently employed at universities or HEIs in the UK and interested in joint supervision of Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Award studentships beginning in October 2027. Including one based in the Eccles Institute for the Americas and Oceania entitled, 'Collecting the Taboo: Library Practice and the J. B. Rund Collection', focusing on an extensive collection of American printed material and ephemera.

James J. Barney’s new book reassesses David Dinkins’s historic mayoralty and the multiracial coalition that elected New York City’s first African American mayor. Drawing on archival research, A Fragile Alliance examines the challenges of governing a divided city amid racial conflict, economic recession, rising crime, the AIDS epidemic, and political backlash.

Join us for the British Library's American Writers’ Week (28 September – 2 October), presented in association with Festival America, Vincennes, France. Participating writers include Alison Bechdel, Armistead Maupin, Daniel Kraus, Jeanine Cummins, Joyce Carol Oates, Katie Kitamura, Rabih Alameddine and Viet Thanh Nguyen. Each event for American Writer's Week or book two or more in person events to get 25% off.

James J. Barney’s new book reassesses David Dinkins’s historic mayoralty and the multiracial coalition that elected New York City’s first African American mayor. Drawing on archival research, A Fragile Alliance examines the challenges of governing a divided city amid racial conflict, economic recession, rising crime, the AIDS epidemic, and political backlash.

The British Library Eliot Room | Thursday 17 September, 18.30-19.30 | Free, no booking required

Uppsala University’s Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS) is offering visiting grants for 1–2 PhD students within the humanities and social sciences for a 2–4 week stay in Uppsala during autumn 2026, the exact duration and timing to be determined in consultation with SINAS. The grant covers travel and accommodation for up to 25.000 SEK. Grantees will be allocated office space and library resources.