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Chaucer goes digital as British Library makes works available online

Library photographs and uploads its entire collection of manuscripts by author of The Canterbury Tales

The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2023

Keir Starmer urged to make King Charles pay for monarchy's role in slavery

A CAMPAIGN group within the Labour Party are calling on Keir Starmer to ensure King Charles pays reparations for the monarchy’s role in slavery.

The National (Scotland) · Oct 9, 2023

The history of the Yellow Book – the 19th century journal that celebrated women writers

In the middle of the final decade of the 19th century, Britain was the most powerful and richest nation on earth, with the largest empire ever known. The nation might be thought to have had nothing of which to be frightened, yet frightened it was.

The Conversation · Oct 6, 2023

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British Library acquires archive of SDP co-founder Shirley Williams

Exclusive: Papers, notebooks, letters, speeches and photos from 60-year career in public life donated by daughter

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14, 2023

Collection of Hilary Mantel’s essays to be published in posthumous memoir

The publication will be marked with three curated events at Cheltenham Literature Festival, Stratford Literary Festival and at the British Library.

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2023

Why does the moon change shape and why are cheetahs fast? Try our kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2023

How J.R.R. Tolkien's novels were inspired by Medieval poems of 'northern bravery'

In a moment of distraction from the laborious work of marking an “enormous pile of examination papers”, J.R.R. Tolkien flipped to a blank page on a student essay and scribbled, “in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.

The Conversation · Sep 1, 2023

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Emma Corrin answers London’s burning questions

At only 27, one of our favourite Londoners, Emma Corrin, has already dazzled as Princess Diana and Lady Chatterley. Now the actor is stepping into the spotlight for ES readers…

Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2023

The KLF remake scrapped 1987 album and donate it to British Library

1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) was withdrawn from sale following a dispute with ABBA over unauthorized samples

MusicRadar · Aug 29, 2023

KLF donate copy of reconstructed 1987 album to British Library

Unsold copies of original album were destroyed after a legal dispute with Abba

The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2023

Fay Godwin remembered: the photographer who taught us to see landscapes differently

Exhibition of the celebrated landscape photographer's work to open in Cornwall in September

Digital Camera World · Aug 10, 2023

‘Heart-stopping’: censored pages of history of Elizabeth I reappear after 400 years

British Library uses new technique to uncover passages of Camden’s Annals, the first official account of Elizabeth’s reign

The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2023

British Library acquires ultra-rare cricket book thanks to anonymous donor

William Epps’s 1799 book of scorecards from ‘the grand matches’, formerly owned by commentator John Arlott, has been saved for the nation

The Guardian - UK · Jul 13, 2023

‘Fascinating’ Tippett letter reveals composer changed by prison

Exclusive: Pacifist composer’s intimate 1943 jail letter ‘best Tippett discovery for 50 years’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2023

Andrea Levy’s notes on Mary Seacole brought to light by IT experts

The writer’s scripts for a TV series about the nurse were among those recovered from her old computer by the British Library

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2023

Check this out: the British Library gets into gaming

Digital Storytelling, its new exhibition, shows how interactive technology has changed – and expanded – the way we tell stories

The Conversation · Jun 13, 2023

Why medieval manuscripts are full of doodles of snail fights

The doodles found in the margins of very old manuscripts are often just as interesting as the content of the manuscripts themselves. One such example is the frequently recurring – and extremely odd – image of knights warring against snails.

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023

China’s Hidden Century review – a revelation from first to last

This beautifully curated show of more than 300 exhibits traces the resilience, innovation and decadence of 19th-century China – and the lamentable role of the British

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Daily Mirror · Apr 27, 2023

Nuclear heroes win £250,000 documentary project

Veterans of the British nuclear tests are being sought for a £250,000 project to create a documentary with the British Library, and to be taught to A-level students

The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2023

Animals storm the library and AI snaps up a prize – the week in art

Jeremy Fry’s democratised art, Sean Scully’s country-house takeover and the Parthenon’s majestic mare – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2023

Animals review – a carnival of curious fish and fantastic beasts

From a medieval monk mixed with a fish to the call of an extinct Hawaiian bird, this entertaining show revels in nature’s marvels – real or otherwise

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2023

Britain’s monarchy backed slavery from day one

Letters: Jordan Andrews on Charles II’s backing for the Royal African Company. Plus, Robert Godsill on Oliver Cromwell’s leading role in slavery

The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2023

Surviving copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio to go on show

Events planned in UK and Ireland, including a British Library exhibition, to mark 400 years since complete works first published

The Conversation · Feb 15, 2023

Buildings tumbling, survivors living in tents: medieval descriptions of an 1114 CE earthquake in present-day Turkey and Syria feel eerily familiar

The catastrophic earthquakes of February 6 2023 in Turkey and Syria are so far known to have claimed the lives of over 41,000 people. This number will likely grow as rescue and recovery efforts continue.

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2023

The secret of happy home working? A good local pub

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