This International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting stories of women who helped shape movements for rights and equality, from early feminist writings to oral histories of activism.

Read the blog post here: link.bl.uk/15n

#TheBritishLibrary #InternationalWomensDay

For World Social Work Day 2026, social work students can access a wide range of monographs, research articles and social studies in the British Library’s St Pancras Reading Rooms.

Explore the resources available in our latest blog: link.bl.uk/6za

#WSWD2026 #TheBritishLibrary

Fabulous aren't they. By the by, here's his studio recreated at #Edinburgh Gallery of Modern Art, complete with working modern of the altogether bigger end product at #TheBritishLibrary #London.

My book of the year winners:
@danielrachel.bsky.social
@nigetassell.bsky.social
#TheBritishLibrary / #PaulBradshaw
@paulsimpson.bsky.social
Congratulations all!

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It’s incredibly easy to find out. This is the dataset. Its licensed under a CC Public Domain license which reads, and I quote,

“You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”

The time of the #WritingWorkshop on Fri 23rd Oct at #TheBritishLibrary is now 4.30-6pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-cl...
@pw.org

I used the BL Books dataset, specifically set for material published between 1837 and 1899 with some filtering for messy data. It ended up being something like 28,000 books. Dickens is all in there - no surprise that he sounds quite Dickensian!
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Some thoughts on my recent trip to The British Library's Medieval Woman in their Own Words exhibition.

#history #medieval #medievalwomenintheirownwords #thebritishlibrary #booksky

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Fewer people are reading than ever before in the UK, so #Netflix is using its film and series adaptations of classic & modern works as an incentive to encourage more people to get back in the habit. #TheBritishLibrary #EastOfEden #Frankenstein #BookSky popculturejunkie.com/books/netfli...

With their permission, I think, though the chatbot doesn’t really cite its sources. I had to hunt around a bit to find this.

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My video blog review of the collection of short stories, 'The Haunted Library: Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves Edited by Tanya Kirk'.

#BookReview #Horror #MRJames #C.J.Faraday #HesterHolland #MargaretIrwin #PenelopeLively #TheBritishLibrary

youtu.be/TUCK-s2jFqk

#LSE #UoLondon #TheBritishLibrary
One lie begets another.
Now after a two-year appealing, the British Library is telling another lie: all records related to former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's fake dissertation have been destroyed.
Shame!!!

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Happy Valentine's Day 💋
#ValentinesDay Had this delicious cake at #thebritishlibrary The perfect day out 😍