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Golden Books

30 June 2022 Medieval manuscripts

Lecture on Tuesday, 12 July, 7:00 pm in the British Library main entrance hall and online You won’t want to miss this lecture focusing on the illumination in Western manuscripts, given both in person and online by Professor Lucy Freeman...

The new India Office

29 June 2022 Untold lives

In the autumn of 1860 the staff of the India Office moved from East India House in Leadenhall Street in the City of London to temporary accommodation in Victoria Street whilst new premises in Whitehall were being purpose-built. The India...

What content should I nominate on the UEFA Women’s Euro to the UK Web Archive?

29 June 2022 UK Web Archive

By Helena Byrne, Curator of Web Archives, British Library The UEFA Women's Euro 2022 competition is taking place across England from July 6 to July 31, 2022. We are collecting websites about the 2022 UEFA Women’s EURO from around the...

Library Lives: Susan Taylor, Glasgow

28 June 2022 Living Knowledge

‘I love this quote from Andrew Carnegie: “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”’ In this month’s celebration of librarians we’re back in...