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Writing: Making Your Mark

Writing: Making Your Mark

Fri 26 Apr - Tue 27 Aug 2019

30 June Shubbak Literature Festival

Shubbak Literature Festival - Full Day Pass

Sun 30 Jun 2019

Writing Curator Talk

Curator's Lunchtime Talk: Writing

Mon 1 Jul 2019

Artistic image showing Leonardo's double helix and handwritten notes.

Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion

Fri 7 Jun - Sun 8 Sep 2019

LDV

Leonardo da Vinci's Scientific Impact: Domenico Laurenza

Tue 2 Jul 2019

05 - 07 July Africa Writes

Africa Writes Weekend Pass

Sat 6 Jul 2019

Leather and wood photo album, with black and white photographs.

Life Writing Study Day

Sat 13 Jul 2019

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Anything But Silent

Anything But Silent

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Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion

New exhibition now open – Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion

See inside the mind of Leonardo through his extraordinary notebooks

Eduardo Paolozzi statue

Eccles British Library Writer’s Award

Find out how you can use our collections to write your book

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Medieval manuscripts blog from the British Library

History Today Trustees' Award 2019

Sound and Vision blog from the British Library

Michael Ryle and the development of the House of Commons select committee system

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

Naskhi-divani: a little-recognized sultanate script

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The remarkable life of Dr. Faustus [page: fold-out frontispiece and title page]

The Rural Life of England by William Howitt [page: 219]

'The Rural Life of England' by William Howitt, is a survey of the rural English countryside

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Gender in the 19th century

Images of Black British writers and their work depicting Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Una Marson and James Berry,

Twilight CPD for teachers: A Celebration of Black British Literature

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Da Vinci Foot Pocket Mirror

Leonardo da Vinci Foot Pocket Mirror

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Recycled Leather Perpetual Motion Notebook

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Leonardo da Vinci Bridge Kit

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Perpetual Motion Necklace

Perpetual Motion Necklace

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