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James Cook: The Voyages

James Cook: The Voyages

Fri 27 Apr - Tue 28 Aug 2018

David Shrigley

David Shrigley: Fully Coherent Plan

Mon 28 May 2018

PSA lecture

The PSA Lecture: Bernadette McAliskey

Tue 29 May 2018

Treasures of the British Library. Discover stories that shape the world.

Treasures of the British Library

Free

30 May writing in Spanish

Javier Cercas and Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Wed 30 May 2018

Limited places

The Pacific

The Pacific: Past, Present and Future

Fri 1 Jun 2018

Conservation in Focus

Conservation in Focus

Sat 2 Jun 2018

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Hay Festival

Hay Festival events live streamed to local libraries

Partners in the Living Knowledge Network showing events for free on Saturday 26 May

James Cook: The Voyages

James Cook: The Voyages now open

Visit our exhibition to explore the stories, art and maps of those who were there

Treasures Gallery at the British Library, credit Tony Antoniou

Treasures Gallery closed for essential maintenance

Our Treasures Gallery will be closed 4 – 7 June inclusive

Blogs

Sound and Vision blog from the British Library

Sounds from beyond the Iron Curtain: Soviet classical recordings at the British Library Sound Archive

Medieval manuscripts blog from the British Library

‘The Earth is, in fact, round’

Science blog from the British Library

World Baking Day - two British advances in baking technology

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Copy Chart of the Society Islands, by James Cook after Tupai’a.

Explore the Society Islands with this map by James Cook, a copy of an original by Tupaia

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Ophelia in Hamlet

Beowulf

Chart the evolution of Old English through the 700 years it was written and spoken

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