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

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

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.

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

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

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

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