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Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition at the British Library

Harry Potter: A History of Magic

Wed 13 Dec 2017 - Wed 28 Feb 2018

credit: Caroline Purday

Feeling Sound: Evelyn Glennie in Conversation with Colin Blakemore

Thu 14 Dec 2017

15Dec_The Transnational American Periodical

The Transnational American Periodical

Fri 15 Dec 2017

James Cook: The Voyages

James Cook: The Voyages

Fri 27 Apr - Tue 28 Aug 2018

Crick Crack Storytelling

Crick Crack Club: Masters of Hex

Fri 15 Dec 2017

The QI Christmas Quiz

Mon 18 Dec 2017

Adult Course Bombs and Birth Control

Bombs and Birth Control: Making the Modern Suffragette

Thu 1 Feb 2018

Limited places

News

James Cook The Voyages

The British Library’s programme for 2018 revealed

Highlights include major exhibitions and acquisitions

Christmas Shop

Our Christmas Shop has arrived

Celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas with us

2018 Eccles British Library Writer's Award winners Tessa McWatt and Stuart Evers (photograph by Ander McIntyre)

Eccles British Library Writer's Award 2018 winners announced

The Eccles British Library Writer's Award 2018 has been awarded to Stuart Evers and Tessa McWatt.

Blogs

Asian and African blog at the British Library, collection item detail

A handbook of Ethiopian magic incantations and talisman art

Medieval manuscripts blog from the British Library

British Library manuscripts in Glass exhibition at the Musée de Cluny

Untold Lives blog from the British Library

Journals of Albert Hastings Markham

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The Life of Buddha f.3-4. The Shakya Prince leaving his wife and child to find enlightenment

animal farm

Watch the trailer for the 1954 adaption of George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

Stephen Fry Twelfth Night

Festivity, disguise and misrule in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

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Portrait of a Murderer (Paperback)

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