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• Four copies of Magna Carta to be shown together for first time

  8 Oct 2014: The British Library is offering just 1,215 people – via a public ballot – the once-in-a-lifetime chance to view the four surviving manuscripts from 1215 side by side

• Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination – an epic tour through the dark corners of desire

  

  3 Oct 2014: This exhibition of gothic ephemera, from Sadean dresses to possessed ventriloquists, is not so much about art as it is an inquiry into the liberation of the mind

• Dracula, Frankenstein and the Ripper – gothic comes to the British Library

  2 Oct 2014: Terror and Wonder: the Gothic Imagination is Britain’s largest-ever exhibition devoted to the literature of fear, blood and darkness, writes Alison Flood

• Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to talk on freedom of the press

  6 Sep 2014:

  He is expected to draw on Wikileaks and Snowden battles

• British Library gives teachers tools to inspire

  31 Aug 2014:

  Anna Baddeley: The Discovering Literature website is an important cultural resource that can be enjoyed by all ages

• Why grammar lessons should be renamed ‘understanding language’

  11 Jul 2014: Jessica Brown: It’s an exciting time for grammar, according to the experts. But there’s a need for fresh thinking and the word itself can be misleading

• Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights to go on show in UK

  3 Jul 2014:

  British Library to display 18th century American law documents in 800th anniversary show celebrating England's Magna Carta

• The letters, cards and poems of people facing the enormity of war

  18 Jun 2014: Letter by Arthur Conan Doyle and handwritten manuscript by Wilfred Owen part of British Library exhibition on first world war, writes Mark Brown

• Kerpow! How women used the boy's own world of comic books to further the cause

  17 May 2014: Bring in more women and the market can move out of the niche, says Anna McKie after visiting the British Library's latest exhibition
  

• My hero: Lucasta Miller on Emily Brontë

  16 May 2014: The British Library's Romantics and Victorians manuscripts can now be viewed online. Lucasta Miller has already experienced the transgressive frisson of reading Emily's diary entries

• British Library's literary treasure trove – in pictures

  16 May 2014: The launch of the British Library's digital archive, Discovering Literature, sees 1,200 treasures from Romantic and Victorian writers published online. Take a look at highlights from Charlotte Brontë's earliest story to William Blake's notebook

• British Library puts 1,200 'literary treasures' on new website

  15 May 2014: From Brontë childhood writings to press coverage of Oscar Wilde's trial, 'greatest literary treasures' put online in what will be the largest digital English literature resource

• British Library stages UK's biggest comics exhibition

  1 May 2014:

  Superheroes feature but show focuses on the importance of British talent to what some perceive as a very American genre

• British Library newsroom has 750m pages of newspapers and magazines

  28 Apr 2014:

  New facility to be opened this evening

• British Library to unveil £33m newspaper reading room

  28 Apr 2014:

  State-of-the-art facility will store more than three centuries of newspapers and magazines dating back to the English civil war

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