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Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award 2020

Granta 40th editions

British Library acquires Granta’s archive: marking 40 years since the UK literary magazine was relaunched

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Recording of the week: securing the right to read

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Practical and Reasonable – A history of the Association of Disabled Professionals

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Three letters relating to the Charge of the Light Brigade [folio: 1r]

Discover these three letters relating to the Charge of the Light Brigade, written by British troops

A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear [page: front cover]

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British Accents and Dialects: Listen to the UK’s rich landscape of spoken English

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Playtimes: Explore a century of children's games and rhymes

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