2024 at the British Library

A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang

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Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music opens at the British Library

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Transforming our Boston Spa site

British Library acquires Elizabeth Barrett Browning letters and John Galsworthy archive

British Library acquires rare medieval manuscripts

British Library announces 2025 exhibitions

British Library Announces Food Season 2025

British Library celebrates Irish literature with blockbuster festival

The British Library symbolically reinstates Oscar Wilde’s Reader Pass

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Digital guide to the British Library

Digitise your collections with the British Library

Digitised manuscripts - page 2

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Exhibition that tells the story of Medieval women in their own words opens at the British Library

Black music in Britain

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Food Season Awards 2025

British Library announces 2025 Food Season Awards winners

Groundbreaking British Library development confirmed 

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Last chance to see Fantasy exhibition

The story of medieval women in their own words

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Building a new British Library in Leeds

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Malorie Blackman exhibition opens

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Moving ahead with our transformation plans at St Pancras

British Library acquires archive of playwright Mustapha Matura

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Rebecca Lawrence appointed as new Chief Executive of the British Library

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Literature and KS4 learning resources for teachers

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Roly Keating to step down

Transforming the British Library at St Pancras

Start-up day

British Library takes young visitors on a journey through storytelling

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Transforming the British Library 

The UK Web Archive is currently unavailable

Unearthed opens at the British Library

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Writer’s Award 2024 winners

Writer's Award 2025

Young Creators Lab

Upcoming closures

Date	St Pancras, London	Boston Spa, Yorkshire
18 August–27 September	The Treasures Gallery is closed during this period while we make some changes to our internal climate control system. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
25 August 2025	Reading Rooms and Reader Registration closed. Exhibition galleries and public areas open 11:00–17:00.	Closed