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Molly Houses and Madams: Unravelling Georgian Subcultures

Tue 16 Feb 2021

Alison Bechdel

Life Drawing with Alison Bechdel

Wed 17 Feb 2021

Bessie Smith panel

Bessie Smith: Jackie Kay in conversation with Bernardine Evaristo

Thu 18 Feb 2021

Portrait of Tom Stoppard on cover of his biography by Hermione Lee.

Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee

Fri 19 Feb 2021

Laurie Anderson

Classic Album Sundays presents Laurie Anderson

Mon 15 Feb 2021

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What next for my business idea? (Online) - Start-ups in London Libraries

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Tue 12 Jan - Tue 16 Mar 2021

Get ready for business - Start-ups in London Libraries

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Wed 13 Jan - Mon 29 Mar 2021

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British Library, St Pancras

Our public spaces are closed for the moment

Following the latest government advice and to keep everyone safe we’re closing our Reading Rooms, galleries and public spaces…

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Accessing British Library online content and services

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A colourful and elaborate Chi-Ro in the Lindisfarne Gospels

Lindisfarne Gospels to go on display in the North East in 2022

The most spectacular surviving manuscript from Anglo-Saxon England will be on loan from the British Library.

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Medieval manuscripts blog from the British Library

Loan of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the North East of England

European blog from the British Library

Multi-tasking women from the 1920s to the 2020s

Untold Lives blog from the British Library

Chinese New Year in Canton 1731

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Collage of photograph of Andrea Levy's parents and one of her manuscripts

‘How come England did not know me?’: Recording Andrea Levy for Authors’ Lives

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A Description of Three Hundred Animals [page: frontispiece and title page]

The Devonshire Manuscript

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