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Coming to Leeds this autumn

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The third-party platform that the British Library uses to generate email notifications for our blogs is making changes to…

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The British Library is at the 2021 Thought Bubble Comics Festival

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Lesia Ukrainka at 150: A journey through the British Library collections (Part II)

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Explore the rich history of Black writing and literature in Britain with our new timeline

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‘How come England did not know me?’: Recording Andrea Levy for Authors’ Lives

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Discover 'A Description of Three Hundred Animals', a natural history book for children

The Devonshire Manuscript

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