Is your school joining Jordan on our FREE livestream at the British Library to inspire KS1 reading #readingforpleasure next Monday 8th July? He'll be joined by hannah lee✨ and Allen Fatimaharan for rapping, drawing and storytelling! sign-up: shorturl.at/npcUO

The Mapping Our Better Life exhibition showcased art that was made during a project with a group of young people seeking asylum in the UK, who are in the care of Leeds City Council. Find out more about the outreach work of British Library and this project librariesinleeds.org/exhibits/road-…

If you missed our launch of the #SummerReadingChallenge with Libraries in Camden you can still watch back with your KS1 class! See @JordanfStephens and @HannahLeeWrites in action alongside illustrator Allen Fatimaharan: bit.ly/4f09J4f @ReadingAgency #ReadingForPleasure

Gorilla Class have had SO MUCH fun writing our journey books and got them finished today. The children loved the project and are so proud of what they have written. Well done, kiddos 🙂📖✏️🙌🏼 British Library Learning which do you want to read first?

'We will not forget. We must not forget…’ Remembering the late, great Benjamin Zephaniah – whose works, including Rasta, feature in our Beyond the Bassline exhibition.

Year 4 have enjoyed working on Journeys with the British Library. They have explored Carpathia’s role in rescuing the Titanic and then gone on to explore the disastrous journey of the Titanic. British Library Learning

Due to planned electrical work, our St Pancras building will be closed on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July. Additionally Reader Registration and Wi-Fi will be unavailable from 16.00 on Friday 19 July until 10.00 on Monday 22 July. Our exhibition galleries will also close early on

Class 11 wrote some alternative Fairy Tales following a @BL_learning session last term and we finally got to share them with our younger children. We think you will agree that there was a high level of #SucceedTogether and #BeTheBestYouCanBe going on yesterday afternoon.

Take a look at these fabulous handmade books from Karen Stringer's Year 4 class St George's Primary, created in response to our summer term journeys challenge. We're so impressed by these brilliant authors and illustrators!

Stunning work, Year 4! Thank you for being amazing authors and illustrators.

Join us for Reggae Music Makes Me Smile, A free music and poetry workshop led by Dementia in Dub at British Library on 22/08/24. Based on A Box of smiles. Talk Dement trustee.'s A Box of Smiles workshop, we will use poetry & lyric writing to explore the theme of the transformative power of a smile. 😃

Proud to have been involved in this new digital exhibition, featuring items from our collection, alongside other treasures from across the Libraries in Leeds network.

Schools Librarians, this is a lovely free opportunity to join with public librarians and our friends National Literacy Trust, Penguin Books UK, Jeffrey Boakye for a day of CPD here British Library in London and also in Leeds.

Missed some of our special events as part of Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music? You can catch up on a selection of these, for free, over on our YouTube channel – including amazing speakers like Joan Armatrading, Olivia Dean, Eddy Grant, Shingai Shoniwa and

In this blog post, Debbie Bogard considers how using oral history clips in creative and thoughtful ways can be a powerful learning tool for students of all ages. ohs.org.uk/general-intere…

If you're a teacher (Are you up yet? It is the holidays, you know!), you may be interested in some events in association with our Medieval Women exhibition. Our exhibition workshop is aimed at Years 7-13, and Sensory Storytelling for Years 1-6. bl.uk/learning/

Have you secured your free place at the new Inclusive Libraries Conference - in collaboration with Lit in Colour (Penguin Books UK) & National Literacy Trust? There's still time to join us in Leeds or London, with all spaces fully funded thanks to Arts Council England. literacytrust.org.uk/programmes/pri…

There's still time to sign up for the #MarvellousMakers #SummerReadingChallenge! Fire up your imagination and find free activities, reading challenges and more at your library or summerreadingchallenge.org.uk

⚠️Last chance for free tickets! ⚠️ We still have spaces for our Inclusive Libraries conference in Leeds next Wednesday 4 September. #ACESupported More details ⤵️

We're still buzzing with ideas and inspiration from yesterday's #InclusiveLibraries conference in Leeds! National Literacy Trust Penguin Books UK