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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, exhibition coming soon to the British Library

Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War

Fri 19 Oct 2018 - Tue 19 Feb 2019

credit Charlotte Maxwell

Looking Forward, Looking Back: Somali Week Festival Launch

Fri 19 Oct 2018

Lahore

Lahore Literary Festival 2018

Sat 20 Oct 2018

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Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land

Free

Fri 1 Jun - Sun 21 Oct 2018

Stories in Songs

Sun 21 Oct 2018

Image of Edward the Confessor, from Matthew Paris’s Chronicles of England, made c. 1255-1259 (Cotton MS Claudius D VI, f. 8v)

Secrets of the Earliest Surviving English Seal

Mon 22 Oct 2018

Limited places

Comic Cats Drawing Masterclass

Sat 1 Dec 2018

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Reading Room and Restaurant closures on 20/21 October and 17/18 November 2018

Please check the availability of the material online before visiting the Library.

The Book of Durrow

The Book of Durrow to appear in Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition

Trinity College Dublin will loan the outstanding decorated manuscript to the British Library

(add_ms_52385_f002r) Lark Ascending– Article 15 and 21

Explore key works of early 20th – century classical music

Our latest online resource provides unprecedented access to our music collection

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European blog from the British Library

Václav Hübschmann’s satirical illustrations in the magazine Kopřivy.

Collection care blog for the British Library

Textiles come in all shapes and sizes at the British Library

Endangered Archives blog from the British Library

The British Library: the Place where Vastness and Warmth Meet

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Christopher Saxton's England and Wales Proof Maps

Blake’s notebook draft of ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ for Songs of Experience.

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Critical approaches to Othello

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