A graphic of people with placards expressing feminist demands.

Exhibition

Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights

Open until 1 Aug 2021

A fairer world for everyone: the fight for women’s rights is unfinished business.

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Treasures of the British Library. Discover stories that shape the world.
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Treasures of the British Library

Monday to Sunday

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Image credit: Sothiou Courtesy of the Studio of Nicola Green and Jealous © The Estate of Khadija Saye, London
Exhibition FREE

Khadija Saye: in this space we breathe

3 Dec 2020 - 10 Dec 2021

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Events at the Library

A Short History of the 'Empress Mills', Nagpur: Golden Jubilee (Bombay, 1927). [British Library Asia, Pacific & Africa V 24128]
Online Event FREE

Workers' Libraries in Colonial Bombay

A history of workers' libraries in colonial Bombay with historian Dr Arun Kumar

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GLF Youth Group demonstration against age of consent at 21 (1971)
Online Event

Pride Before Pride

What is Pride, what are its root and where has it come from?

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Two photographs of Frank James Prewett by Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1919. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
Online Event

The Making of Frank 'Toronto' Prewett: Poetry, Trauma and Identity

A remarkable 20th century life

Cover art from the book Burning Man, featuring a line drawing of a snake in a fire
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Webinar: Burning Man – Writing a Biography of D H Lawrence

Hear about the biography research and writing process at our webinar

Photographs of Kirsty Gunn, Emma Claire, Irenosen Okojie and Emily Midorikawa
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Dalloway Day

Exploring the relationship between two of modernism's key writers, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield

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