About our events
Nurture your creativity and develop your skills with courses themed around our collection, delivered both in-person and online. Enjoy a one-day masterclass, a hands-on creative weekend, or a six-week lecture series.
What's on
How to Write a Life
This online, six-week writing course with author Frances Wilson is for people with a true story to tell and a hundred excuses for not telling it.
Illumination Masterclass
Join renowned scribe and illuminator Patricia Lovett MBE on this one-day beginners masterclass and create your own medieval miniature on vellum.
Age UK Silver Sunday: Bookbinding
Create your own notebook in this hands-on workshop, as part of Age UK Silver Sunday.
Age UK Silver Sunday: Memoir Writing
Explore writing techniques and get practical tips in this workshop, as part of Age UK Silver Sunday.
Age UK Silver Sunday: Old English
Discover the Old English language in this workshop, as part of Age UK Silver Sunday.
Age UK Silver Sunday: Gold on Parchment
Explore how manuscripts were made in medieval times in this lecture with Patricia Lovett MBE.
Introduction to Latin
Explore the classical Latin language in its cultural context on this weekend course.
Quills and Calligraphy Masterclass
Explore quills and calligraphy in this one-day course.
Old English Masterclass
Explore Old English in its cultural context in this two-day course.
ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
Join us for an introduction to the British Library and our collection in this session for adult learner groups at all ESOL levels.