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Creative for Writing: Making Your Mark. A boy standing on a mountain of letters and characters.

Writing: Making Your Mark

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The Art/Science of the Polymath

Mon 2 Sep 2019

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Mark Radcliffe: In Search for the Moments that Changed Music

Tue 3 Sep 2019

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Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion

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From Buggery to Bridalshowers: LGBTQ+ Human Rights Post-Stonewall

Thu 5 Sep 2019

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Ramachandra Guha: Why a new Life of Gandhi?

Tue 10 Sep 2019

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Leonardo da Vinci: Drawing with Water

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Granta 40th editions

British Library acquires Granta’s archive: marking 40 years since the UK literary magazine was relaunched

A key source for understanding late 20th-century writing and publishing

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The Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award 2020

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‘C’est un détournement’: Mezioud Ouldamer’s copy of Guy Debord and Asger Jorn’s Mémoires

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Eisenhower to Obama and beyond: new US political material now available to researchers

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Letter from Florence Nightingale describing the benefits of clean air

Read Florence Nightingale's letter, written on 8 September 1860, describing the benefits of clean air

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