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- SEND Family Workshop: Sensory Storytelling
- The Thursday Murder Club: An Evening with Richard Osman, Chris Columbus and Special Guests
- Summer Scholars Lunchtime Talks
- Treasures Tour
- Summer Scholars Lunchtime Talks
- Building Tour
- Family Station: Explore and Play
- Summer Scholars Lunchtime Talks
- Summer Scholars Lunchtime Talks
- Family Workshop: Design a Space Rocket
- Family Station: Relaxed Early Opening
- Conservation Studio Tour
- Lit in Colour Teacher Conference 2025
- Veterans’ Voices: Legacies of Britain’s Nuclear Testing Programme
- How to Write a Life
- Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Beauty and The Business
- South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories
- Illumination Masterclass
- Family Workshop: Portals and Other Worlds
- Family Workshop: Yummy in My Tummy
- Family Workshop: Dynamic Duos
- Family Workshop: I Am Me!
- Family Workshop: Vietnam, Family and Home
- Family Workshop: Our Planet
- One Hundred Years of Reading
- WriteBack: An Evening of Writers Off Duty
- Words Across Waters: Afro Lit Fest
- Family Station: Explore and Play
- Why Do We Give?
- The PEN Pinter Prize 2025: Leila Aboulela
- Getting Started at the British Library
- Voices for Change: Environmental Movement Stories
- Family Station: Explore and Play
- Secret Mapping: Mapping Secrecy
- The Map and The Echo
- SMOG STORIES: A Lived History of Air Pollution in Britain
- Doctoral Open Day: Music, Sound and Vision
- How Maps Win or Lose Wars
- The Lie of the Land: Who Controls the Map?
- Mapping the Mysterious
- Secret Maps: Curators’ Lunchtime Talk
- Doctoral Open Day: Europe, Americas and Oceania
- Spies, Maps, and Secret Missions: Deep Into Enemy Territory
- The Future Map of the World, with Tim Marshall
- Self-Guided Visit: Story Explorers
- Doctoral Open Day: British and European Collections, Antiquity to 1800
- Doctoral Open Day: Asian and African Collections
- Self-Guided Visit: Fairy Tales
- Doctoral Open Day: British Collections 1800–1950
- Doctoral Open Day: Contemporary British and Irish Collections
- Doctoral Open Day: Digital Collections and Resources
- Refugee’s Journey: A Drama Workshop
- Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens
- Books Uncovered
- Musical Storytellers
- Write Like a Poet
- Once Upon a Time
- ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
- Self-guided school visits
- Sounds Familiar? Online
- Once Upon a Time: Tell a Story
- Once Upon a Time: Make a Story
- Listen Up! Sound Lab
- Research Matters Primary
- Research Matters Secondary
- Voyage into Maps
- Sounds Familiar?
- Exploring Black British Literature
- Write Here
- Windrush Voices
- Making Artists’ Books
- Listen Up! Dive into Sound
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