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Propaganda Portraits of Muslim Rulers during WW2

18 October 2018 Untold lives

The Ministry of Information was the British Government department responsible for publicity and propaganda during the Second World War. On 22 August 1940, Arthur John Arberry at the Ministry of Information wrote to Roland Tennyson Peel at the India Office,...

Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: a once-in-a-generation exhibition

18 October 2018 Medieval manuscripts

Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, the largest ever exhibition on the history, literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England, opens at the British Library on 19 October. We are delighted to give you a brief glimpse here of some of the...

Shiva Naipaul: An Unfinished Journey

18 October 2018 English and Drama

In our final Windrush blog before the exhibition closes on Sunday, I would like to focus on Shiva Naipaul, the award-winning novelist and travel writer whose archive is held here at the British Library. Shiva Naipaul photographed by Fay Godwin...

Religious unbelief in the life of Professor Sir Fred Holliday

17 October 2018 Sound and vision

Paul Merchant examines the state of 'religious unbelief' held by Professor Sir Fred Holliday [1935-2016], marine biologist, founding Chairman of Northumbrian Water, Vice-Chancellor and Warden of the University of Durham, and Director of Shell and of British Rail