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.

A Torah in the Hebrew Manuscripts exhibition
Exhibition

Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word

18 Aug 2020 - 6 Jun 2021

Journey beyond the Bible to discover the history, culture and traditions of Jewish people from all corners of the world through the ages.

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 - 8 Aug 2021

"We exist in the marriage of physical and spiritual remembrance. It's in these spaces...[that] we identify with our physical and imagined bodies." – Khadija Saye

Events at the Library

A book lying amidst an assortment of old black and white family photographs.
Course

Learn Live: Memoir - Getting Started

Learn how to finally tell your story on our online course

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Kate Young
Online Event

Cyanide and Marmalade

Food in crime fiction.

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Online Event

In the Kitchen with Bill Buford and Jonathan Meades

A vivid, hilarious, intimate account of a five-year odyssey in French cuisine.

An open Hebrew book with faded illustrations
Course

Learn Live: Introduction to Hebrew

Go on a journey through 3,500 of the Hebrew language on our online course

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Composite of an illustration of Lady Macbeth, Adjoa Andoh, Dr Andy Kesson, Dr Vanessa Lim and Dr Wanda Wyporska.
Online Event

Shakespeare's Sisters

The women who made Shakespeare.

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