What’s on
Featured exhibitions
Story Explorers: A journey through imaginary worlds
Take a free family trip through our collection and discover the stories behind objects which take you to wondrous places. Designed for children 2 – 7.
Secret Maps
Who shapes your world? Who decides what you see? What hides behind grid lines?
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List of Events
Punk: 50 Years of Rebellion, Creativity and Raw Energy
With special guests Paul Cook, Gina Birch and Marco Pirroni, in conversation with Chris Sullivan, Stephen Colegrave and Miranda Sawyer.
How to Start and Run a Successful Restaurant, Coffee Bar or Food Business
Explore the best ways of opening and running a viable and profitable food business like a cafe, restaurant, bakery, or cake shop!
Illumination Masterclass
Join renowned scribe and illuminator Patricia Lovett MBE on this one-day beginners masterclass and create your own medieval miniature on vellum.
LGBT+ History Month Discovery Day
Celebrate the contribution of the LGBT+ community to ‘Science and Innovation’ with British Library archival material and creative workshops.
Web archive research in an age of Smart Data
For International Love Data Week join experts to explore how we can make sense of vast and varied web archives.
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch tells the complex and entertaining story of religion and human desire.
Bookbinding Masterclass
Take inspiration from one of the world's greatest collection of books, on this weekend masterclass.
Culture as Security: How Culture Protects Us
Lessons from Ukraine and Beyond.
Hekate – The Play
Nikita Gill and Jenny Wall welcome you to this work in progress of Hekate.