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Karl and Eleanor Marx display

Karl and Eleanor Marx display now open in our Treasures Gallery

Discover the links between the British Library and Karl Marx and his daughter Eleanor

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

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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’

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World Baking Day - two British advances in baking technology

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Discover biologist Anne McLaren's notebook which includes her techniques that led to human IVF

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

Explore Ophelia, gender and madness in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Beowulf

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

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