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Writing: Making Your Mark

Writing: Making Your Mark

Fri 26 Apr - Tue 27 Aug 2019

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Xu Bing in Conversation

Fri 26 Apr 2019

27 April Family Workshop Create a map

Family Workshop: Create a Map

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Sat 27 Apr 2019

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Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion

Fri 7 Jun - Sun 8 Sep 2019

29 April Plaiting Knotting Weaving The Translator in Motion

Plaiting, Knotting, Weaving: the Translator in Motion

Mon 29 Apr 2019

30 April The Kitchen Cabinet Live at the Food Season

BBC Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet at the Food Season

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Tue 30 Apr 2019

Expressive Writing and Calligraphy course

Expressive Writing and Calligraphy

Tue 21 May 2019

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UKRR The next chapter for the UK Research Reserve

The next chapter for the UK Research Reserve

The UK Research Reserve (UKRR) has transitioned from a project to a service now run by the British Library. To mark the milestone,…

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Computing course being developed for the Cultural Heritage Sector

A project to develop a new postgraduate certificate, Computing for Cultural Heritage, with The National Archives and Birkbeck…

A selection of diaries from the Tony Benn Archive. Photo credit: British Library.

Archive of Tony Benn acquired for the nation

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English Recusants in Portugal, 1638

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Two recent flight-related additions to the Map Collection

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Two new PhD opportunities for Web Comics

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A defence of Oscar Wilde by Dalhousie Young

A firsthand account of the Black Death written at the Cathedral of Rochester

Explore a firsthand account of the Black Death written at the Cathedral of Rochester

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Discover 100 years of children’s songs, rhymes and games at www.bl.uk/playtimes

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

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