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2015-12-21The Alice and wonderland exhibition was great! So interesting and suitable for all ages which is ideal over Christmas break with the kids off school!...
2016-11-29The amount of access to all books is obviously great. It would be nice if the librarians could do a full days work like everybody else and open the...
2016-11-26not impressed went all that way to find out i had to register and the registration time had ended after 4. the chap on the information desk was so...
2016-11-26I love the British Library. It is a welcoming place where I felt at home immediately. Physically the architecture is beautiful. I had applied for...
2016-11-25Great place to visit. Love to see lots of people enjoying online work in different parts of the library;)
2016-11-23Only had time to see Treasures... and what treasures! Incredible, amazing, sublime etc.
2016-11-21As a library professional, I could not pass up an opportunity visit The British Library, & after browsing its extraordinary collections & rare...
2016-11-21Frequently a port in a storm for me and it was great to take my nephew and niece to show them our national library, the Treasures exhibition and the...
2016-11-21Thoroughly enjoyed the exhibits n will always make a point to visit when I'm in London
2016-11-20Always interesting and well worth a visit. The regular free exhibitions are well presented and the Victorian Entertainment exhibition is no exception.
2016-11-17Simply wonderful , especially the Treasures.
2016-11-16I love the Treasures exhibition and the shop. Lovely place to just hang out near the big stations too.
2016-11-16I think its brilliant and educational and well worth going!
2016-11-14So unbelievably worth visiting. Amazing artefacts.
2016-11-14Wanderfoul place !
2016-11-09Well organised, friendly staff and most of all good resources for those who are interested in research
2016-11-09Really enjoyed the books and music exhibition, worth a visit .
2016-11-07Interesing
2016-11-06I went in to the restaurant and the staff were not only unable to understand me, they charged me twice for an inedible cake that I took back for a...
2016-10-28really enjoyed it,,,, love the Magna Carta,,,,
Updates from British Library
2016-10-07
Performing pigs, magic tricks and pantomime! Victorian Entertainments: There Will Be Fun opens in one week. Focusing on five colourful characters including magician John Nevil Maskelyne and the great circus showman ‘Lord’ George Sanger, our free exhibit
Performing pigs, magic tricks and pantomime! Victorian Entertainments: There Will Be Fun opens in one week. Focusing on five colourful characters including magician John Nevil Maskelyne and the great circus showman ‘Lord’ George Sanger, our free exhibit
2016-10-06
'The badger's winter stores, which indeed were visible everywhere, took up half the room.' A lovely scene from 'The Wind in the Willows', illustrated by Arthur Rackham, to mark #NationalBadgerDay.
'The badger's winter stores, which indeed were visible everywhere, took up half the room.' A lovely scene from 'The Wind in the Willows', illustrated by Arthur Rackham, to mark #NationalBadgerDay.
2016-10-06
Today we’re celebrating #NationalPoetryDay. #SayItWithAPoem and share your favourite lines of poetry with us. ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun’: Who was the mysterious ‘Dark Lady’ in #Shakespeare’s sonnets? Take a look at this first edition of
Today we’re celebrating #NationalPoetryDay. #SayItWithAPoem and share your favourite lines of poetry with us. ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun’: Who was the mysterious ‘Dark Lady’ in #Shakespeare’s sonnets? Take a look at this first edition of
2016-10-05
What can Wilfred Owen’s original manuscript drafts of ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ reveal to us about the poem? We examine Owen’s writing process and show how he evoked the extreme sense-experience of the battlefield in his war poems. http://bit.ly/2dcp7Av #
What can Wilfred Owen’s original manuscript drafts of ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ reveal to us about the poem? We examine Owen’s writing process and show how he evoked the extreme sense-experience of the battlefield in his war poems. http://bit.ly/2dcp7Av #
2016-10-05
Mark #BlackHistoryMonth with the British Library Labs project and The Eccles Centre for American Studies. Discover the amazing tale of William and Ellen Craft and see the story of their escape from slavery re-enacted at our history event taking place at
Mark #BlackHistoryMonth with the British Library Labs project and The Eccles Centre for American Studies. Discover the amazing tale of William and Ellen Craft and see the story of their escape from slavery re-enacted at our history event taking place at
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