Yes, we have a copy of just about every book ever published in Britain. But we also stage loads of events, we have a huge website, and we run free exhibitions. We have free wi-fi too! Visit us soon.
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- 1 July 1973
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mardi 10 novembre, à 18:00 - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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lundi 14 décembre, à 09:30 - Points of View: The 19th Centu...
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mercredi 6 janvier, à 18:30 - Charles Dickens: Man, Writer a...
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mardi 12 janvier, à 18:30 - The Man Who Stopped Time: Eadw...
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lundi 1 février, à 18:30 - Mingle
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jeudi 11 février, à 19:00 - Capture Kings Cross: A Photogr...
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samedi 20 février, à 10:00 - Photography and the Changing City
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lundi 1 mars, à 18:30 - Lewis Carroll and Photography:...
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samedi 6 mars, à 14:30
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The British Library For those people who weren't able to hear our choir sing the Hallelujah chorus here on 14 December, here's a short recording
The British Library Thanks to everyone for their best wishes. Hope you all have a happy and fulfilling new year.
Shobhit Sharma I've been with BL from past 5 years. At Chandigarh, we had a lack of old novels even problem with the issue dates, its validity, just 7 days, you had to return book back! Hope, extend that if any official reading it.
Milena Bianco I remember my researches in Manuscripts' and Humanities' Reading Rooms.. Thanks to the Staff!!!
Emilia Solis Díaz Happy Christmas to all the British Library!!!
Christian Javier Estupiñan Cordoba Watch this out...
Jo Manning My home-away-from-home when I was writing My Lady Scandalous! I lived in that rare books room. Freezing cold, but what a treasure! Love the British Library :-)
Amandeep Madra Happy Christmas to all at the British Library in particular the brilliant staff at the Oriental and India Office Collections who were, as ever, fantastically helpful.
Baboucarr N'Gum Just want to wish everyone at the British Library a Happy Christmas and Happy New Year. I worked there from 2006 to 2007. Love Bakarr
Miriam wants to tell the librarians in Humanities 1 The British Library to please keep it down a little, they're getting distractingly loud
The British Library We have a selection of Christmas e-cards, sacred and secular http://www.bl.uk/ecards/indexxmas.html
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Although people had exchanged hand-written greetings for centuries, commercially printed Christmas cards seem to have originated in London in the mid 19th century.
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New virtual books live today, including manuscript of Handel's Messiah http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbo
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Discover the British Library's award-winning Turning the Pages. Just click on the links, wait a few moments, then turn the pages of our great books
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Also on Monday: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam exhibition opens. See preview in TimesOnline http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/t
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Among tall trees, a man in a blue silk tunic pauses beside a rocky stream. A vision opens before him of a white canopy held aloft on fir branches. The Moon turns into a blue all-seeing eye. In mid-air a giant gold-enamelled plate spins. Where is he? Answer: in the library.
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Join us for Handel's Messiah in Entrance Hall on Monday at 13.00 http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event101
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A live performance of Handel's Messiah part one by the British Library and British Museum singers
