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Boys in Red Army Uniform c. 1918 – 1920 taken from Histoire des Soviets by Henri de Weidel, Paris, 1922

Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths

Wed 7 Jun - Tue 29 Aug 2017

Growing your business in the cloud

Free

Thu 8 Jun 2017

Conservator Vania Assisworking on a Chinese scroll. Photo Credit: Vania Assis

Conserving Silk Road Manuscripts

Thu 8 Jun 2017

Limited places

Harry Potter artwork by Jim Kay

Harry Potter: A History of Magic

Fri 20 Oct 2017 - Wed 28 Feb 2018

Jon Savage: 1967 - A Summer of Love? Image of Leo Abse

Jon Savage: 1967 A Summer of Love?

Fri 9 Jun 2017

Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life

Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life

Free

Mon 12 Jun - Sun 23 Jul 2017

The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour: Rudyard Kipling

The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour: Rudyard Kipling

Tue 13 Jun 2017

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Hay Festival archive

British Library acquires Hay Festival archive

The largest single donation of literary recordings in our history

Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty, free exhibition at the British Library, images © LSE Library and Peter Tatchell

Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty

Free exhibition now open at the Library

A new British Library exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone opens 20 October. Sign up to our dedicated mailing list.

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Digital scholarship blog at the British Library

Digital Conversations @BL - Web Archives: truth, lies and politics

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Hollar in Hull

Medieval manuscripts blog from the British Library

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Blackwell's Herbal, page 3 - Dandelion

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published on 8 June 1949

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Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, 1631

Discover 100 years of children’s songs, rhymes and games at www.bl.uk/playtimes

Discover 100 years of children’s songs, rhymes and games

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