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The British Library acquires Kenneth William’s personal papers

04 December 2015

The British Library is delighted to announce the acquisition of the personal archive of Kenneth Williams, including 42 personal diaries and approximately 2,000 letters spanning his entire life and career from the age of 18 until his death in 1988....

New member of the Digital Scholarship team

03 December 2015

Hello, my name’s Andrew Longworth and I’ve recently joined the Digitisation Scholarship team as a Digitisation Project Analyst so I thought I’d write a short introductory blog post. I’m here as a maternity leave sub for the next 4 months...

From Shakespeare to 20th century maps – our cultural highlights for 2016

03 December 2015

This morning I hosted our annual press preview event at St Pancras, where we offer the media a taste of the cultural highlights we have coming up over the next year. It’s always exciting for me to finally be able...

Archive of Malian Photography

03 December 2015

This is the third blog in our series celebrating West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song, the current exhibition at the British Library. This time we are delighted to have a piece written by Dr Candace Keller who was the grant holder...

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