This one is going to be delicious....

Le Gateau Chocolat and Decus Ensemble with a celebration of late 18th to early 20th century Black British composers

Join Decus Ensemble and Le Gateau Chocolat in British Library on Monday 29 April, tickets here:
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Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky...

Delve deeper into Wordsworth's Romantic poetry in our podcast series: bit.ly/BLWordsworthPo…

Mark your calendars – there’s one month until Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music opens! 🎼

Travel from royal courts all the way to cyberspace through artworks, soundscapes and archival footage: bit.ly/BLBeyondTheBas…

CALLING ALL ROMANTICS & REVOLUTIONARIES...

Next Weds the British Library (home of a lock of Byron's hair) marks 200 years since the mad lord died:

❤️‍🔥the Byronic All-Dayer❤️‍🔥

Come & join some incredible speakers... #Byron
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Byron fans: 5 days to go!

VERY excited about this British Library line-up, inc. Antonia Fraser, Drummond Bone, Jane Stabler, Miranda Seymour... Also me, arguing that Lord B was in fact, a basic b 😂

And booze, of COURSE
Byronic All-Dayer, 17 April
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Shoutout to the mighty Craig Charles - as part of your Soul II Soul celebrations this afternoon please could you share this upcoming British Library event! ❤️‍🔥

A rare chace to catch writer of @Succession and much more Jesse Armstrong talk on Writing America British Library 18 April for the Eccles Institute for the Americas & Oceania @ BL Bryant Lecture. In person or online tickets and info bit.ly/3UajkwR

A man has hacked into the British library and removed all the punctuation.
He’s looking at a long sentence.

📢The 2024 RSL Ondaatje Prize longlist is here🎇

For 20 years, the Prize has awarded £10,000 to a book that evokes the spirit of a place.

Huge congratulations to the 14 longlisted titles, chosen by judges Jan Carson, Xialou Guo, and Francis Spufford (also a past RSL Ondaatje…

LONDON - we‘re playing a show next month as part of the BEYOND THE BASSLINE exhibition - celebrating 500 Years of Black British Music.
🎫 Tickets drop tomorrow 10am BST.

Major announcement! Mercury Prize winners Ezra Collective play their first live show of the year on 11 May British Library as special event for the upcoming exhibition Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music. Tickets on sale tomorrow 10am bit.ly/4cCF4Zz

Book now British Library Beyond The Bassline: 500 years of Black British Music. 1st major exhibition of its kind to celebrate trailblazers & innovators that brought new music to the UK, & the layered Black experiences that birthed a thriving culture & history Manchester University Press

Looking forward to talking about Dungeons & Dragons at 50 and the early years of Games Workshop at British Library on 4th April. Tickets to attend in person or online here: seetickets.com/event/dungeons…

Celebrate the life and work of Byron as we mark his bicentenary, discover the legacy of Le Gavroche with the return of our delectable Food Season, and announcing special appearances by Soul II Soul, George the Poet and much more alongside our new exhibition Beyond the Bassline 🎼

Join us British Library tonight as Nobel prizewinning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan discusses the science and ethics of ageing, death and immortality with Anjana Ahuja Book at bit.ly/3IV1IyK

HISTFEST 2024 IS COMING TO THE BRITISH LIBRARY NEXT MONTH!!

13-14 April | @BritishLibrary

Join us for a weekend of laughter and learning with leading historians and thinkers. There are a number of day passes still available: £30 - £16 (with concessions) histfest.org/histfest-2024-…

Live and in person British Library on Thursday we have Jennifer Gunter & Helen King, Classics/History of Medicine/CofE💙💛 taking on the myths and fearmongering around menstruation
#BloodBook #Vagenda #MenopauseManifesto #VaginaBible 🩸

⏰Tickets: …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/the-scie…

On our longlist and one of our favourite poetry reads of the year:
#jhalakprize24