“We began in bookshops and libraries…” the incredible Ezra Collective bringing joy to the British Library

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🔸 Deux personnes âgées ont tenté de briser le verre protégeant la #MagnaCarta de la #BritishLibrary à l'aide d'un marteau et d'un burin. Il s'agit de deux militantes écologistes octogénaires de « #JustStopOil ».

📍Thank you for dancing with us London.

💥Was really special to be back and British Library was a perfect return.

A MUST SEE!!!!!

500 years of Black British music history at the British Library , exploring the cultural and sonic legacy of UK’s Black communities through photography, soundscapes, films, and more

Genuinely 10/10

Congrats Dr Mykaell Riley 🙏🏾

Zwei 80-jährige Klimakriminelle versuchen mit einem Hammer, das Glas zu zerschlagen, das die Magna Carta in der #Britishlibrary schützt. Die Magna Charta ist eine königliche Charta der Rechte, der König Johann von England im Jahr 1215 zustimmte.

Ces climato fachos tentent de briser la vitre de protection du #magnacarta à la #Britishlibrary 🇬🇧👀

80-Year-Old Climate Activists Damage Glass Protecting Magna Carta

#TippingPoint 🟧 One America News 🇺🇸
#OAN #OneAmericaNews #OneAmericaNews Network

Kara McKinney OANN Larry Behrens 🇺🇸 Power The Future
#MagnaCarta #BritishLibrary #ClimateChangeHoax

WATCH: live.oann.com

Tonight British Library became a Temple of Joy. Thank you Ezra Collective

Please enjoy this image of the Virgin Mary punching the devil in the face, from a 13th-century manuscript at British Library

A fine-looking friend for #TurtleTuesday , found on fol. 98v of British Library Sloane MS 4016 (Tractatus de Herbis), Lombardy, Italy, c.1440.
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Come meet Latvia's most internationally renowned author this weekend British Library for the second European Writers' Festival!

Latvian Literature Latvia in the UK - #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Happy #BookLoversDay ! What are you reading today? #shelfie

Really British Library you should know & do better than this. It’s a disgrace & an insult to #women .

Simone's debut novel, Confrontations, has everything we like in a novel: identity, race, realism, tension all delivered in her classic thought provoking style - super excited for this weekend!

Bloomsbury Books UK Netherlands Embassy 🇬🇧 rosie goldsmith British Library

EASY INDIAN VEGETARIAN - my books very first outing into the world, and what better place than the British Library to take part in the Food season with a bunch of lovely food writers where I got to share a little extract from it!
Preorder here -

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On Wednesday 15 May our Members’ Room at St Pancras will close at 18.00 for a private event. The rest of the building will remain open until 20.00.

Afonso's Kokoschka's Doll's opening lines *slap*:

At the age of forty-two, or, to be precise, two days after his birthday that year, Bonifaz Vogel began to hear a voice. Initially, he thought it was the mice.

Try putting it down after that, dare you

British Library rosie goldsmith

'Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid...'
— Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson

Wishing all a happy and…

‘…it’s an ancestral rhythm that's in all of us’ 🎵

What does Black British music mean to you?