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  1. 11h

    'When I start to write, words have become physical presence...' Writer John McGahern was born in 1934.

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    Feel like exploring the world without getting wet this weekend? Visit the 's map exhibition!

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  3. Nov 11

    A tribute to members of the former British Museum Bindery staff who were killed in WWI

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  4. Nov 11

    The British Library will be observing the two-minute silence for at 11.00 today, Friday 11 November.

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  5. Nov 10

    Delighted to welcome Chinese Vice-Premier, Ma Kai & to to view literary icons touring China in 2017.

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  6. Nov 10

    Fairy tales, Crime Classics & festive treats. Come by our Christmas Shopping Evening on 6 Dec & enjoy special offers

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  7. Nov 4

    I went to this maps exhibition at the British Library last night and it is brilliant - RECOMMEND

    Go behind the scenes of our exhibition with . Opens tomorrow!
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  8. Nov 10

    ‘There is much that will stop visitors in their tracks’: the on our exhibition

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  9. Nov 9

    On 17 November: hear Ali Smith in conversation with this year's V S Pritchett Memorial Prize shortlisted authors

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  10. Nov 9

    The Berlin Wall fell 1989. This information map from 1963 illustrates the wall and West Berlin surrounded by barbed wire

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  11. Nov 8

    Take a closer look at Persian manuscript 'Lights of Canopus' featured on tonight's Treasures of the .

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  12. Nov 8

    Bram Stoker was born in 1847. Explore how Dracula reflects the fears that haunted late 19th-century society:

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  13. Nov 8

    Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, and her personal treasures of the on today at 9pm.

    Treasures Of The British Library: Julia Donaldson | Sky Arts
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  14. Nov 8

    The Map Proves It: this map was published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association c.1914. See it on display in

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  15. Nov 7

    Born in 1728: Captain James Cook. This journal records his crossing the Antarctic Circle on 17 Jan 1773

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  16. Nov 6

    Thomas Kyd was baptised in 1558. Kyd's play The Spanish Tragedy inspired Shakespeare when he was writing Hamlet

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  17. Nov 4

    Launched today, our website traces the evolution of maps through expert articles & curious collection items

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  18. Nov 4

    Step onto the map - a blog to mark the opening of Maps & the 20th Century: Drawing the Line

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  19. Nov 4

    From NASA’s map of the universe to the Hundred Acre Wood, see how 20th-century maps didn't just represent the world, they shaped it.

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  20. Nov 4

    Agents of change. Objects of beauty. Our Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line exhibition is now open!

    Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line
    See how 20th-century maps didn't just represent the world. They shaped it.
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