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Visual Arts
The British Library's new exhibitions reveals how friends were collected and displayed before an age of ‘likes’
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Dance
Choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh’s Contagion is an extraordinary dance installation that commemorates the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic
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Talks
Join actress Noma Dumezweni and Adam Fulrath of Pottermore at the British Library to talk about the lives of books
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Talks
A conversation on how ideas about race intersect with discussions of class and feminism, and the role this plays in text, hosted by the Royal Society of Literature
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Talks
An exercise in comparison: philosopher AC Grayling considers the future of democracy today by exploring crises of democracy in the past
Tried and Tested
Visual Arts
The 70s are here at the British Library's new exhibition charting the rise of punk in the UK
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Talks
Join Cathy Rentzenbrick, Matt Haig, and others for a celebration of Shakespeare and all things literary
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Talks
Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka reflects on a life in literature at the British Library
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Visual Arts
Once in a lifetime opportunity to see the four original texts of the Magna Carta at the British Library exhibition 2015