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British Library gates Paul Grundy…
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Russian moon globe from 1961 with NASA earthrise image of the earth in the background. Photo by Clare Kendall.
KATHERINE BLAMIRE, FROM THE BRITISH LIBRARY EXHIBITIONS TEAM, WITH A SOVIET MOON GLOBE FROM THE EARLY 1960S ON DISPLAY AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY'S MAPS AND THE 20TH CENTURY:DRAWING THE LINE WHICH OPENS NOVEMBER 4TH. PHOTO CLARE KENDALL. 20/10/2016
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Evanion's entertainment at the Assembly Rooms, Broadstairs…
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Constable’s English Landscape
Saturday, May 20, 2017On 20 May 1832 John Constable was at home in Hampstead drafting an introduction to English Landscape, a set of mezzotints after his own views. Constable was writing at a time when ‘topographical’ art had become seen as a lesser...
The Jaipur Literary Festival comes to the British Library
Friday, May 19, 2017If anyone is wondering why tents are going up all over the Piazza, it’s all in preparation for the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival which returns to London this weekend at the British Library presenting a sumptuous showcase of South Asia’s...
Celebrating Bengali New Year at the British Library
Friday, May 19, 2017Saturday 29 April saw the British Library host a celebration of Bengali New Year in the Knowledge Centre with 200 people from the local community. The Library teamed up with Age UK Camden to put on the event which included...
Dmitrii Moor interrogates: Have *You* Bought Your Ticket?
Friday, May 19, 2017One of the main founders of Soviet political poster design, Dmitrii Orlov was born in 1883 in Novochekassk to the family of an engineer. In 1898 the family moved to Moscow. Although the young artist did not receive a systematic...
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