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Living with Machines
Revisit the industrial revolution at Leeds City Museum.
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Sound Gallery
Explore audiovisual content from across our collections
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The Philatelic Exhibition
Discover some of the rarest and most significant stamps from one of the world's greatest collections
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Treasures of the British Library
From Magna Carta and Shakespeare to Florence Nightingale and Gandhi. Explore some of the world’s most exciting, ...
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Somers Town Festival
Join us on the Piazza for Camden’s largest street party
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Summer Scholars: Chocolate as Medicine / A Bibliographic Memoir
Chocolate in early Jamaica, and reflections on reading and writing.
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Creating the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
A century of recovery… and beyond.
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Summer Scholars: Journeys – poetic, physical and metaphorical
Interactions between grey whale mothers and humans, and The Runaway Slave.
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Summer Scholars: North American Great Lakes / Decolonising the Archive
Indigenous-British relations in the Great Lakes, and weaving landscapes with maps.
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Finding Queer South Asian Voices in the Archives
Join us as we reflect on some of the oral histories from the British Library sound archive, revealing stories about ...
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The Age of Impunity: Hidden Frontlines in the War in Ukraine
Journalism and the war against reality
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Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Gender, Sexuality & Kinship in Native America
Explore the histories and cultures of Two-Spirit people
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Summer Scholars: Erasure Poetry / The Queen's Silence
Erasure and inclusion poetry, and the British monarchy’s involvement in the slave trade.
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