This week my finds from around the web feature Tolkien, DNA, catsup, a rhinoceros, and a chimpanzee!

Listen to this rare recording of Tolkien reading from The Hobbit in 1952.

Grant Museum of Zoology asks public to help name their rhinoceros skeleton.

New British stamps celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s longest reign.

What Your DNA Says About Medieval History: “a new study uses genetic data from living people to trace millennia-old migration patterns.”

A crowded presidential race is nothing new. Check out these political cartoons from the 1880s.

An archivist at State Records NSW (Australia) tests a tomato catsup recipe from a 1901 manuscript cookbook.

At the Smithsonian a conveyor belt and 80-megapixel imaging system are used to digitize thousands of artefacts in mere hours.

Newly-released photos from the U.K. National Archives tell the story of Josephine, the chimp who went to war in 1915.

The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library is now accepting grant applications.

British Library declines Taliban archive “due to issues of copyright compliance and concerns on the library’s part that, by hosting the collection, it could be in violation of counter-terrorism laws,” but several institutions in the U.K., USA, and Europe express interest in hosting the collection.

Why are web archives so important? This article discusses the work of Ian Milligan, Assistant Professor of Digital and Canadian History at the University of Waterloo.

According to this review, “British Museum exhibition seems intended to bury the Celts but ends up reviving them in all their misty splendor.”

An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society features photographs of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March. If you can’t get to New York, at least check out some of the photos online. (I also recommend the movie Selma.)

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