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Writing: Making Your Mark opens at the British Library this spring
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Online resource unlocks restricted collections with Archives of Sexuality & Gender, Part III
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Explore our Anglo-Saxons webspace
Monday, February 18, 2019Would you like to find out more about the Anglo-Saxons? Have you been mesmerised by our recent blockbuster exhibition, Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, or are you doing research into some aspect of early medieval culture? If so, you may...
‘For Jean on her Birthday’: Vaughan Williams’s String Quartet in A minor
Sunday, February 17, 2019'For Jean on her Birthday’: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ inscription on the autograph score of his String Quartet No. 2 (MS Mus. 1842/1). Seventy-six years ago today, a remarkable present arrived for Jean Stewart’s birthday: the first two movements, in manuscript,...
When love comes knockin’ at your door
Sunday, February 17, 2019To the joy and relief of some, the magic of Valentine’s Day has now vanished, taking heart-shaped chocolates and romantic cards with it. A different perspective of love is offered by a motif popular in the Classical world: the so-called...
Andrea Levy
Friday, February 15, 2019We’re sad to hear of the death of novelist Andrea Levy who passed away yesterday, aged 62. In 2014, Andrea agreed to make a recording for Authors’ Lives which will be made available to listeners in the weeks to come.
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