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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War

Fri 19 Oct 2018 - Tue 19 Feb 2019

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John Gray: Cats, Humans and the Good Life

Wed 23 Jan 2019

In Miniature

Miniature Books: A Secret History

Mon 28 Jan 2019

Cats on the Page

Cats on the Page

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Fri 23 Nov 2018 - Sun 17 Mar 2019

Digital Conversations

Digital Conversations: Data, Place and Digital Economies

Tue 29 Jan 2019

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Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw: Europe 1950 – 2017

Thu 31 Jan 2019

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Jinty Nelson: Women in Anglo-Saxon Times

Fri 1 Feb 2019

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Exhibitions at the Library in 2019

Writing, Leonardo da Vinci, Buddhism, Harold Pinter, photography and cityscapes

Annunciation to the Shepherds, twelfth century psalter – BL, MS Cotton Caligula A. vii/l, f.6v.

800 medieval manuscripts now available online

A groundbreaking collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Materials, studio of Trevor Bell. Photograph © Steve Tanner

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Endangered Archives blog from the British Library

Early photographic work of the Hamilton Studios, Bombay.

Collection care blog for the British Library

Course on Asian Papers and their Applications in Paper Conservation

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

History from Between: Global Circulations of the Past in East Asia and Europe

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Audubon's Birds of America showing a wild turkey, plate 1

Explore John James Audubon's Birds of America: the largest and most beautiful illustrated bird book

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Photograph of J B Priestley as a Lance Corporal, 1915

Illustration by Hannah Buckman

Close readings of John Agard’s ‘Checking Out Me History’, ‘Flag’ and ‘Half Caste’

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