ICYMI: Actor and director Samuel West (Samuel West 💙💛) has called on politicians to stop "talking down" arts degrees, warning that ignoring their value could lead to them becoming regarded as a "middle-class hobby" 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/samuel-we…

Well, if it’s taken Deadpool to resurrect the Bye Bye Bye dance SO BE IT. And no lies, every millennial can still dance it.

Something very, very exciting is happening British Library Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, our new major exhibition, opens on 25 October Get your tickets now, they're cheaper than #Oasis and more chance of encountering Margery Kempe 😉 blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

We’re now able to confirm restoration dates for some of our key services. You’ll be able to access more content, view digitised manuscripts and request items remotely again this September. Our CEO Sir Roly Keating explains more in his latest blog: bit.ly/BLCyberBlogAug…

Next week, access to around 1,000 of our digitised manuscripts will be restored. This will be the first tranche of manuscripts to be released, making them available for the first time since the cyber-attack.

English teachers! Browse 100 of our best loved Discovering Literature articles, including expert insights on Macbeth. padlet.com/discovering_li… Explore themes from manhood and 'the milk of human kindness' to the witches and Lady Macbeth.

A sublime new exhibition ⁦British Library⁩ on the #SilkRoadOasis Dunhuang & the Mogao caves. Extraordinary treasures from the famous Cave 17 which was home to 70,000 manuscripts and more written information about medieval Asia (and beyond) than any site in the world.

Totally consider a morning in a beautiful Victorian cemetery a huge perk of the job (on top of good session with/by The National Lottery Heritage Fund North team)

Our snazzy Medieval Women exhibition book is now available to pre-order at the British Library online bookshop 🤩 Can we tempt you? Read more about it on the blog: 🔗blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

A treat to be at the launch of Furnace Fruit exhibition last night - a body of work by Karanjit Panesar inspired by the stories of Punjabi workers in British foundries. It’s the second Collections in Dialogue artist commission from British Library and Leeds Art Gallery.

Also in this week’s Yorkshire adventures: lovely sunsets, aesthetically pleasing tea (not pictured: less aesthetically pleasing videocall over said tea), and Tracy_Chevalier’s latest novel which I’m very excited about.

Have you seen the line-up of events in conjunction with our Medieval Women exhibition? Our speakers include Kate Mosse, Hetta Howes, Philippa Gregory, Janina Ramirez and Lauren Groff You can book your tickets here 👇 …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/search/all

In light of this bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… I am reposting my thread about how we need to take Period pain MORE seriously not LESS. The solution is NOT to force girls in pain to attend school. The solution is to fucking address their pain so they don't lose days every month.

Kew Gardens are doing Halloween this year and I was so there for it.

"I am honoured to take up the role of Chief Executive of the British Library, an institution I have loved and admired from childhood and throughout my adult life." We are delighted to announce Rebecca Lawrence as our new Chief Executive, starting 2 January 2025:

Some truly amazing collections on display, so many interesting (and still relatable, centuries on…) stories in their own words indeed - Medieval Women exhibition opens tomorrow at British Library! Oh, and *fantastic* exhibition book too 📜

What are these ladies doing, as pictured in Christine de Pisan's medieval book? BUILDING THE CITY OF LADIES, obvs. You must go and see them & more in the superb new British Library exhibition 'Medieval Women in the Own Words.' I loved it. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Joan of Arc’s signature ! ‘The new exhibition ⁦British Library⁩ on Medieval Women is full of wonders

Two off the bucket list: Mt Fuji in autumn and TeamLab in Tokyo 🥹

Fundraisers: unable to resist the appeal of donor boards anywhere in the world (Nikko Tōshō-gū shrine, in this case)