British Library

Help needed to enrich and expand FIBIS’s name-database. Volunteers to photograph name-rich sources at the British Library (Kings Cross, London […]

GENERAL INDEXES TO ADMINISTRATIONS, WILLS, AND INVENTORIES OF DECEASED ESTATES BENGAL, MADRAS AND BOMBAY 1704-1783 IN THE INDIA OFFICE RECORDS

An important source of biographical information within the India Office records held by the British Library in London are the […]

The British Library are holding a series of interesting workshops from May to August 2025 related to family history and British India.

British Library Update

A couple of updates from the British Library which may be of interest to the FIBIS community. Adam Matthew ‘East […]

South Asia Series image

Some of our readers may be interested in the following announcement from the British Library about the ‘South Asia Series’ […]

Notes and Tags facility in the Explore the British Library online catalogue

Those of you that use the ‘Notes and Tags’ facility in the Explore the British Library Catalogue may be interested […]

using Introduction to family history sources in Asian and African Studies

Unfortunately the British Library Asian and African Studies Reading Room has to close for essential engineering work to be carried […]