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The British Library is the national Library of the United Kingdom. It provides world class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive research collection. Further information is available on the Library’s website at www.bl.uk
Myths and Realities
This debate will explore the key issues on standards and attitudes to education – was it really the best of days? Our speakers will represent research and educational practice.
Wednesday 8 Sep, 18.30 - 20.00
Cost: £6 / £4 Concessions
For One Night Only: A Celebration of
The event will include interviews, rare footage, and ephemera celebrating the Golden Days of Variety.rnThe evening will also feature performances from Variety acts and a wine reception.
Tuesday 14 Sep, 18.30-21.00
Cost: Free / advance booking
Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art
Maps can be works of art, propaganda pieces, expressions of local pride, and tools of indoctrination… Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art brings together some of the most impressive wall maps ever created, many of which have never been exhibited before, and will demonstrate why maps are about far more than simply geography.
Tuesday 14 Sep, LATE opening until 20.00
Cost: Free
The Challenge of Climate Change
In this year's Fulbright Eccles Centre Lecture, Lord Puttnam will explore the Challenges of Climate Change on both sides of the Atlantic. Lord Puttnam was chair of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Draft Climate Change Bill, and has a deep and long-standing interest in environmental matters and climate change in particular.
Wednesday 15 Sep, 18.30-20.00
Cost: £6 / £4 concessions
Promoting the Wonders of Science Benjamin Franklin House Symposium
Professor Cox shares his expertise as a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester and the ATLAS experiment on CERN's Large Hadron Collider. This lecture celebrates the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, where Franklin was a celebrated member.
Monday 20 Sep, 18.30-20.00
Cost: £8 / £5 Concessions
Inspiring Entrepreneurs Ingenious Britons: Inventors, Innovators and Entrepreneurs
To celebrate British ingenuity, this special evening brings together four inventors and entrepreneurs featured in our exhibition, who are not only building successful businesses, but making a real difference to our lives.
Wednesday 22 Sep, 18.15-21.00
Cost: £10 / £7.50 concessions
Le Morte Darthur Peter Ackroyd
‘Le Morte Darthur ‘was written 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory and became a best seller. Following the success of his Canterbury Tales, novelist, historian and biographer Peter Ackroyd has retold Malory’s great tales in his own rich modern English. He discusses their power and appeal.
Wednesday 29 Sep, 18.30-20.00
Cost: £7.50 / £5 concessions
