Events Database

75 historical macro events · 2010–today

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DateEvent
Aug 15, 12Notes & Queries: Would a printed Wikipedia fit in the British Library?
Jul 19, 12Public Lending Right consultation was rigged from the start
Jul 18, 12India Office files to go online as British Library seals deal with Qatar
Jul 12, 12Digital resources: researchers need better access and more training
Jun 20, 12London 2012: how rural writing inspired the Olympic opening ceremony
May 23, 12Keep Public Lending Right's excellent office in Stockton-on-Tees
May 11, 12Guardian Books podcast: Writers and the British landscape
May 11, 12BBC archive director to move to British Library
May 5, 12Writing Britain: the nation and the landscape
Apr 28, 12Oral history's quiet heroes
Apr 15, 12Dr Jekyll and a not so wicked Mr Hyde: how a portrait of evil was toned down
Apr 5, 12Benjamin Britten original score to remain in Britain
Mar 8, 12BBC Radio 4 to record and broadcast thousands of conversations across UK
Mar 3, 12How Henry VII branded the Tudors
Feb 28, 12Mole and Rat meet the horned god Pan in British Library summer exhibition
Nov 29, 11British Library's early newspaper archive goes online
Nov 27, 11Exhibition tells how Charles Dickens was spooked by ghost tale doppelganger
Nov 13, 11Europe's archived trove of rare Great War documents goes online
Nov 11, 11Royal Manuscripts: British Library lights up the middle ages – in pictures
Nov 10, 11Medieval monarchs' books showcased by British Library
Oct 24, 11Harold Pinter's forgotten sketch rediscovered after more than 50 years
Aug 25, 11British Library digs out decorative paintings to brighten up dark ages
Jul 25, 11When will Colindale's newspaper library close? Not too soon, thank goodness
Jul 14, 11British Library seeks £9m to buy oldest book in Europe
Jul 3, 11Online is fine, but history is best hands on
Jun 21, 11British Library and Google bring 18th-century hippos to the web
Jun 1, 11George Clinton to speak at British Library
May 30, 11British Library creates a "national memory' with digital newspaper archive
May 24, 11Alan Moore's comic: a masterpiece of SF art
Mar 25, 11The Writing Life: Beryl Bainbridge
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