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British Library

96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB United Kingdom
www.bl.uk
T. 0207 412 7332


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Current and forthcoming events

2 Events listed


24.05.13 - 24.05.13Talk begins tomorrow

More than making: grow your creative business

 

01.06.13 - 01.06.13Workshop begins in 9 days

Picturing Propaganda: A Study Day

 

Past events

99 Events listed


22.05.13 - 22.05.13Exhibition ended on May 22, 2013

Inspired by...Maps

 

11.04.13 - 11.04.13Workshop ended on April 11, 2013

Inspired by... Crafts Lives

 

25.02.13 - 24.03.13Exhibition ended on March 24, 2013

Encounters between Art and Science

 

05.03.13 - 05.03.13Talk ended on March 5, 2013

Lunchtime talk: Meet our Jewellery Designer in Residence

 

04.03.13 - 04.03.13Art Fair ended on March 4, 2013

t: Made with the British Library

 

04.03.13 - 04.03.13Talk ended on March 4, 2013

Meet fashion illustrator Julie Verhoeven

 

02.03.13 - 02.03.13Screening ended on March 2, 2013

Future Shorts Festival and Sound Edit: Wildlife screenings

 

01.03.13 - 01.03.13Event ended on March 1, 2013

LATE at the Library: Fashion Flashback

 

15.02.13 - 16.02.13Conference ended on February 16, 2013

In The Field - International Symposium for Field Recording

 

01.01.08 - 31.12.12Exhibition ended on December 31, 2012

Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library

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30.11.12 - 30.11.12Screening ended on November 30, 2012

Future Shorts Festival at the British Library

 

19.10.12 - 30.11.12Screening ended on November 30, 2012

The Sound Edit: Wildlife

 

21.06.12 - 21.06.12Talk ended on June 21, 2012

Henry Fox Talbot - Talk by John Falconer

 

15.02.12 - 15.02.12Talk ended on February 15, 2012

Panel Discussion Materiality and the Politics of Representation

 

12.02.12 - 12.02.12Screening ended on February 12, 2012

casting for movie

 

Images © Sonia Lichtenstein, Walter Joseph Collection, courtesy of British Library
01.07.11 - 31.07.11Exhibition ended on July 31, 2011

STREET MARKETS OF LONDON IN THE 1940S - WALTER JOSEPH

 

John Thompson, Courtesy of the British Library
15.07.11 - 15.07.11Talk ended on July 15, 2011

CAUGHT ON CAMERA; STREET LIFE AND BEYOND - A TALK BY JOHN FALCONER

 

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, self-portrait. From the Wakeling Collection.
06.03.10 - 06.03.10Event ended on March 6, 2010

Lewis Carroll and Photography: Exposing the Truth

 

William Henry Fox Talbot, Nelson’s Column under construction, Trafalgar Square, London, April 1844.
01.03.10 - 01.03.10Event ended on March 1, 2010

Photography and the Changing City

 

Illustration to quatrain 48 by Niroot Puttapipat from the new Folio Society edition to be published in October 2009
14.12.09 - 21.02.10Exhibition ended on February 21, 2010

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

 

20.02.10 - 20.02.10Event ended on February 20, 2010

Capture Kings Cross: A Photography Treasure Event

 

www.shootexperience.com
20.02.10 - 20.02.10Event ended on February 20, 2010

Capture King's Cross - a photographic treasure hunt

 

Watkins, A portrait session with Charles Dickens, 1858
12.01.10 - 12.01.10Event ended on January 12, 2010

Charles Dickens: Man, Writer and Fanciful Photographer

 

Wilhelm Burger, Village near Yokohama, Japan, c. 1869 (British Library)
06.01.10 - 06.01.10Event ended on January 6, 2010

Points of View: The 19th Century Close Up

 

08.01.09 - 22.12.09Exhibition ended on December 22, 2009

Conservation Uncovered- FREE Behind the Scene Tours

 

Recording Equipment
15.12.09 - 15.12.09Event ended on December 15, 2009

Making Records

 

Print Shop Copy
14.12.09 - 14.12.09Talk ended on December 14, 2009

The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe: The View from the Author's Study

 

Print Shop Copy
09.12.09 - 09.12.09Talk ended on December 9, 2009

The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe: The View form Inside the Shop

 

Corrector's Mark
08.12.09 - 08.12.09Talk ended on December 8, 2009

The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe: Practice Makes Imperfect

 

William Henry Fox Talbot, A scene in York—York Minster from Lop Lane, 28 July 1845.
07.12.09 - 07.12.09Event ended on December 7, 2009

'I Have Captured a Shadow': Fox Talbot and the Dawn of Photography

 

Josephine Hart
01.12.09 - 01.12.09Event ended on December 1, 2009

The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour: Robert Browning

 

Image of Noh
30.11.09 - 30.11.09Event ended on November 30, 2009

Getting to Noh

 

Image of Noh
30.11.09 - 30.11.09Event ended on November 30, 2009

Getting to Noh

 

Sir Jasper magic lantern slide
29.11.09 - 29.11.09Event ended on November 29, 2009

Professor Heard’s peerless Victorian magic lantern show

 

Sir Jasper magic lantern slide
29.11.09 - 29.11.09Event ended on November 29, 2009

Professor Heard's Peerless Victorian Magic Lantern Show

 

Image of President Barack Obama
23.11.09 - 23.11.09Event ended on November 23, 2009

Nine months of the Obama administration: Its meaning domestically and internationally

 

Image of Kitty Dewinter Fair Botham
20.11.09 - 20.11.09Event ended on November 20, 2009

LATE at the Library: Victorian values

 

18.11.09 - 18.11.09Event ended on November 18, 2009

Myths and realities 2: Making sense of risk

 

Image of Lord Sugar
17.11.09 - 17.11.09Event ended on November 17, 2009

In conversation with Lord Sugar

 

16.11.09 - 16.11.09Event ended on November 16, 2009

The whole world is Africa

 

11.11.09 - 11.11.09Event ended on November 11, 2009

A Village Lost And Found: Into an extraordinary stereoscopic world

 

Image of Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Copyright © The Royal College of Music, London
10.11.09 - 10.11.09Event ended on November 10, 2009

Samuel Coleridge Taylor: The neglected superstar

 

10.11.09 - 10.11.09Event ended on November 10, 2009

The National Gramophonic Society: A brave experiment, 1924-1931

 

Photograph of Grayson Perry vase
09.11.09 - 09.11.09Event ended on November 9, 2009

Grayson Perry in conversation with Will Self

 

Photograph of the camera obscura
07.11.09 - 07.11.09Event ended on November 7, 2009

The wonderful world of early photography: A discovery day

 

Photograph of Tantalon Castle
31.10.09 - 31.10.09Event ended on October 31, 2009

Imagining the impossible: The truth about spirit photography

 

Benjamin Bagby by Stephanie Berger
25.10.09 - 28.10.09Event ended on October 28, 2009

Beowulf: The Epic in Performance with Benjamin Bagby

 

Image from a conservation advice clinic
28.10.09 - 28.10.09Event ended on October 28, 2009

An introduction to looking after books

 

Seamus Heaney
27.10.09 - 27.10.09Event ended on October 27, 2009

Beowulf: A Celebration

 

Roland Hayes by Van Vechten
27.10.09 - 27.10.09Event ended on October 27, 2009

‘Here's One’: Roland Hayes - first African-American classical tenor

 

Benjamin Bagby by Stephanie Berger
27.10.09 - 27.10.09Event ended on October 27, 2009

Beowulf family day

 

Image of \'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats\' by T.S Eliot and illustrated by Axel Sheffler
26.10.09 - 26.10.09Workshop ended on October 26, 2009

Axel Scheffler drawing workshop

 

Image of 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' by T.S Eliot and illustrated by Axel Sheffler
26.10.09 - 26.10.09Event ended on October 26, 2009

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

 

Image of children at previous family event
26.10.09 - 26.10.09Workshop ended on October 26, 2009

Cats art workshop

 

Image of 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' by T.S Eliot and illustrated by Axel Sheffler
26.10.09 - 26.10.09Workshop ended on October 26, 2009

Axel Scheffler drawing workshop

 

21.10.09 - 21.10.09Event ended on October 21, 2009

Science and silence

 

Image of Josephine Hart
20.10.09 - 20.10.09Event ended on October 20, 2009

The Josephine Hart poetry hour: Poets of World War One

 

Image of Carole Carpenter
19.10.09 - 19.10.09Event ended on October 19, 2009

Jane Austen’s The History of England

 

Harold Pinter by Martin Rosenbaum
14.10.09 - 14.10.09Event ended on October 14, 2009

The PEN/Pinter Prize

 

B.S Johnson by Picador
12.10.09 - 12.10.09Event ended on October 12, 2009

Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry

 

Brian Chikwava by Cristiane Kopp
10.10.09 - 10.10.09Event ended on October 10, 2009

Writing Africa: Marking 10 years of the Caine Prize

 

Image taken from past 'Battle of Ideas' event
07.10.09 - 07.10.09Event ended on October 7, 2009

Don and dusted: is the age of the scholar over?

 

William Dalrymple
06.10.09 - 06.10.09Event ended on October 6, 2009

Nine Lives: Encounters with the Holy in Modern India

 

Image from the book cover
05.10.09 - 05.10.09Talk ended on October 5, 2009

We Were Young and at War: growing up in World War Two

 

29.09.09 - 29.09.09Talk ended on September 29, 2009

William Golding: The man who wrote Lord of the Flies

 

28.09.09 - 28.09.09Talk ended on September 28, 2009

A celebration of Samuel Johnson

 

Image of Professor Sir David Cannadine by Tom Miller
22.09.09 - 22.09.09Talk ended on September 22, 2009

Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the special relationship revisited

 

Image of T. S. Eliot by Angus McBean
21.09.09 - 21.09.09Talk ended on September 21, 2009

T.S. Eliot and the House of Faber

 

Image from a Conservation advice clinic
20.09.09 - 20.09.09Workshop ended on September 20, 2009

Open House - Caring for your family archive

 

Image taken of the British Library by Clive Sherlock
20.09.09 - 20.09.09Talk ended on September 20, 2009

Open House - Asian and African collections

 

Image of Jude England at a previous event
15.09.09 - 15.09.09Talk ended on September 15, 2009

Myths and realities 1: Migration and integration

 

Image of HMT colophon
14.09.09 - 14.09.09Talk ended on September 14, 2009

A Night with the Impresarios

 

Image taken of Palm House in Kew Gardens
09.09.09 - 09.09.09Talk ended on September 9, 2009

Botanical passions: Benjamin Franklin, Kew Gardens, and the millennium seed bank

 

Image of T. S. Eliot by Angus McBean
30.08.09 - 30.08.09Talk ended on August 30, 2009

The Josephine Hart poetry hour: T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

 

Image of children at a family workshop
04.08.09 - 27.08.09Workshop ended on August 27, 2009

Exploring architecture

 

Image taken of Mount Sinai
05.08.09 - 05.08.09Art Fair ended on August 5, 2009

Sisters of Sinai: How two lady adventurers found the hidden Gospels

 

Image taken from the Codex Sinaiticus (Copyright of the British Library)
05.08.09 - 05.08.09Talk ended on August 5, 2009

Materials of the Codex Sinaiticus: How was the oldest surviving Bible made?

 

Bern poster shot
04.08.09 - 04.08.09Talk ended on August 4, 2009

Sport in the age of Henry VIII: Jousting and real tennis

 

Image from a Conservation advice clinic
29.07.09 - 29.07.09Workshop ended on July 29, 2009

Conservation advice clinic: Conservation mounting and framing

 

Image of Alison Weir
28.07.09 - 28.07.09Talk ended on July 28, 2009

The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn with Alison Weir

 

Image taken of the Monastery from the hill
27.07.09 - 27.07.09Screening ended on July 27, 2009

Codex Sinaiticus: The World's Oldest Bible?

 

Portrait of Cheseman
21.07.09 - 21.07.09Event ended on July 21, 2009

Tudor Falconry and Hawking: Talks from the Mews

 

Image by Raphael Falconry
21.07.09 - 21.07.09Event ended on July 21, 2009

Sport in the age of Henry VIII: Falconry and Hunting

 

Image from Henry Psalter by Jean Mallard, TheBritish Library Royal 2Axvi
20.07.09 - 20.07.09Talk ended on July 20, 2009

‘I’m David the Second, I am, I am’: Henry VIII and his Psalter

 

Image taken from previous networking event
14.07.09 - 14.07.09Workshop ended on July 14, 2009

Surviving and thriving:

 

Image: King Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger (detail). By kind permission of The Worshipful Company of the Barbers.
13.07.09 - 13.07.09Performance ended on July 13, 2009

The Private Life of Henry VIII

 

Front cover image of poetry review
13.07.09 - 13.07.09Performance ended on July 13, 2009

Poetry Review’s Cosmopolis

 

Image of  someone playing the piano
23.06.09 - 11.07.09Event ended on July 11, 2009

Street piano at the British Library

 

23.06.09 - 11.07.09Performance ended on July 11, 2009

Street piano at the British Library

 

Image taken of the Monastery from the hill
06.07.09 - 07.07.09Talk ended on July 7, 2009

Codex Sinaiticus: text – Bible – book

 

Image: King Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger (detail). By kind permission of The Worshipful Company of the Barbers.
03.07.09 - 03.07.09Performance ended on July 3, 2009

The Somers Town jesters’ project

 

29.06.09 - 29.06.09Conference ended on June 29, 2009

Michael Moorcock and London

 

Image of Alamire Choir
24.06.09 - 24.06.09Event ended on June 24, 2009

A coronation concert with Alamire

 

24.06.09 - 24.06.09Event ended on June 24, 2009

Late at the Library: A night with Henry VIII

 

24.06.09 - 24.06.09Conference ended on June 24, 2009

Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets

 

Image of Will King
22.06.09 - 22.06.09Conference ended on June 22, 2009

Marketing maestros

 

Image taken from Southall by Ammy Phull
17.06.09 - 17.06.09Conference ended on June 17, 2009

Southall: Music and life

 

Tate Choucair