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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War

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Sayaka Murata – Convenience Store Woman (cover)

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From The Gospels of Jakov of Serres, Jakov of Serres (detail). Add. MS 39626, 1355

The Serbian Collections in the British Library

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Gentleman Jack: Anne Lister and her Diaries

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

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‘For Jean on her Birthday’: Vaughan Williams’s String Quartet in A minor

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Collaboration key for advancing open research: repository progress for Jisc and the British Library

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