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British Library symbolically reinstates Oscar Wilde’s Reader Pass

20 June 2025

British Library acquires archive of playwright Mustapha Matura

20 June 2025

British Library announces 2025 Food Season Awards winners

10 June 2025

British Library acquires rare medieval manuscripts

4 June 2025

Exhibition takes young visitors on a journey through storytelling

16 May 2025

Unearthed: The Power of Gardening opens at the British Library

1 May 2025

British Library Announces Food Season 2025

9 April 2025

Exhibition takes young visitors on a journey through storytelling

27 March 2025

Groundbreaking British Library development confirmed

19 March 2025

Last chance to see Medieval Women exhibition

10 February 2025

New report reveals benefit of business growth programme

31 January 2025

Writer's Award 2025 goes to Peter Brathwaite and Joseph Zárate

5 December 2024

Library acquires Barrett Browning letters and Galsworthy archive

27 November 2024

Discover how to make your start-up a success

11 November 2024

British Library announces 2025 exhibitions

7 November 2024

British Library to open exhibition about medieval women

25 October 2024

Rebecca Lawrence appointed as new Chief Executive

24 October 2024

British Library celebrates Irish literature with festival

22 October 2024

A Silk Road Oasis opens at the British Library

26 September 2024

Beyond the Bassline opens at the British Library

25 April 2024

Sir Roly Keating to step down

10 April 2024

First exhibition to document 500 years of Black music in Britain

27 February 2024

Last chance to see major exhibition exploring Fantasy.

24 January 2024

Writer’s Award 2024 goes to Hannah Lowe and Alia Trabucco Zerán

28 November 2023

Malorie Blackman exhibition opens at the British Library

23 November 2023

New exhibition opens today at British Library exploring Fantasy

27 October 2023

2024 at the British Library

25 October 2023