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James Cook: The Voyages

James Cook: The Voyages

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Precious Nights Network

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Cook in the Ice off Antarctica

Sea Life in Cook’s Time

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Race Relations: An Act?

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Infinite Journeys: Interactive Fiction Summer School

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Bringing the Restoration and 18th - century literature to life

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Dame Carol Black

A new Chair for the British Library

Dame Carol Black appointed for a four-year term starting in September

Caroline Brazier

Warmest congratulations to our Chief Librarian

Caroline Brazier awarded a CBE in Her Majesty The Queen’s 2018 Birthday Honours

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Celebrating the British Library at St Pancras

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Beyond the Spectacle: Native North American Presence in Britain

Sound and Vision blog from the British Library

Recording of the week: Nar Sur - a little known music genre from east Baluchistan

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Franz Schubert, manuscript of An die Musik and portrait. Zweig MS 81, A, B.

Anglo Saxon Mappa Mundi

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Ophelia in Hamlet

Beowulf

David Crystal charts the evolution of Old English through the 700 years it has been written and spoken

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