Whether you're racing back to our Reading Rooms or researching remotely a little longer, we're taking everyone behind the bookshelves for a peek inside our gleaming tower of brass and glass – the King's Library. The focal point of our St Pancras building, the tower houses books collected by King George III. Among the treasures are copies of the Gutenberg Bible (1454/5), William Caxton’s first printing of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (1476/7), and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665), one the fir
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The Library holds over 150 million items, which six would you pick to capture your life, career and passions? We’re delighted that Treasures Of The British Library will be returning to Sky Arts for season two this autumn. Tune in from 11 September #BLTreasures | British Library
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Take a sneak peak inside the conservation studio as our team prepares for our next exhibition, Secret Maps. From careful repairs to bespoke mounts, go behind the scenes and discover how the team gets these extraordinary objects ready for display. | British Library
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In our latest #CuratorsOnCamera, Lead Curator of Medieval & Early Modern Manuscripts Andrea Clarke shows us her three favourite love letters, from King Henry VIII’s exchange with Anne Boleyn to the oldest surviving valentine in the English language, the Paston letters. | British Library
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Our latest Curator's Corner video features Neil Wilkin – Curator of the Bronze Age. Neil explains how 3D models of Bronze Age dirks (large ceremonial swords) can help us to understand how these weapons were created and, in some instances, destroyed http://ow.ly/XAo4t | British Museum
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Suffragettes used coins like this one stamped with ‘votes for women’ to spread their message, even though it was a serious criminal offence. In this episode of Curator’s corner, Tom Hockenhull examines how and when this 1903 penny was defaced with a suffragette slogan. | British Museum
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In ancient Mesopotamia, each person was put under the protection of a particular god when they were born. Here Curator Irving Finkel describes what might happen if your god abandoned you, which demons you had to watch out for, and how to protect yourself from their wrath! | British Museum
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