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Give Like Dolly Day launched to support children’s reading in star’s honour

Camilla cutting a cake during the event

Queen joins celebrations at British Library to mark National Year of Reading

Julia Donaldson on new book Gruffalo Granny: I’m a big fan of grandmotherhood

British Library workers to strike in pay dispute

Vera Lynn’s audition records to be released 90 years after they were recorded

Lost voices of monks heard again after 500 years

Cathedral lights up to celebrate its history in immersive experience

British Library sought to acquire traitor Kim Philby’s archive, files reveal

Two women in 80s charged after Magna Carta display case attacked

Just Stop Oil protesters in their 80s smash Magna Carta display case

Employee data leaked during British Library cyber attack

Jaguar to archive ‘famous growl’ of its V8 sports cars with British Library as i...

Book exploring refugee crisis among longlist for top children’s prize

British Library unveils upcoming exhibitions for the new year

Unseen Beatles memorabilia from Paul McCartney’s personal archive to be unveiled

Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with Kate Mosse on World Book Night

British Library apologises over document linking Ted Hughes to colonialism
His widow has welcomed the move.
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Giant tampon on show at the British Library

British Library to archive Radio 4 listeners’ experiences of pandemic life

Export bar placed on 15th century guide for hermits

Virginia Woolf’s original Mrs Dalloway manuscript to be published for first time

British Library marks anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death with electric hyp...

Archive of Granville political dynasty acquired by British Library

Boasting on social media nothing new, 500-year-old friendship albums reveal

Leonardo da Vinci notebooks display will get ‘inside his mind’

Natalie Dormer narrating Potter audiobook

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins prize set up in memory of Harold Pinter

Book about Japanese tsunami wins Rathbones Folio Prize
Ghosts Of The Tsunami explores the earthquake that led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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Patrick Ness in line for first ever Carnegie hat-trick as shortlist unveiled

Listen to a 1950s computer playing Jingle Bells

Hamilton, Harry Potter and MTV EMAs make up autumn season of London events

Harry Potter fans prepare to celebrate anniversary of first book being published

'Python notebooks' among Michael Palin archive donated to British Library

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