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Alexander Lock is Curator of Modern Archives and Manuscripts. He holds an AHRC funded doctorate in history from the University of Leeds and has published on the religious, political and constitutional history of Great Britain from the eighteenth-century to the present. 

He was lead researcher for the British Library's highly acclaimed exhibition Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy (2015) and a curator of the Library's sell-out exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic (2017-2018), which later toured to New York (New-York Historical Society, 2018-2019). 

He is the British Library’s convenor for the MA Early Modern English Literature: Text & Transmission which he teaches in collaboration with the English Department at King’s College London. 

Since 2012 he has worked as an oral historian with the History of Parliament Trust recording interviews with former Members of Parliament for a major archive hosted by the British Library.