British Library
Animals review – a carnival of curious fish and fantastic beasts
From a medieval monk mixed with a fish to the call of an extinct Hawaiian bird, this entertaining show revels in nature’s marvels – real or otherwise
Jonathan Jones
20, Apr, 2023 @3:01 PM
The secret of happy home working? A good local pub | Letters
Letters: A pint and a laugh | Sir Harry Lauder | Lord Rockingham’s XI | Pitney v Pitney | Turkey and Grenfell | British Library
14, Feb, 2023 @5:06 PM
The British Library doesn’t need £500m – but local libraries do | Letters
Letter: Kathryn Davidson says the money earmarked for an extension and foyer could instead be used to rebuild a battered and undervalued library network
10, Feb, 2023 @6:39 PM
Green light given for huge British Library extension
Community-focused £500m scheme will build new galleries, a learning centre, green spaces and a home for the Alan Turing Institute of data science
Sarah Shaffi
03, Feb, 2023 @2:56 PM
Mary, Queen of Scoffs: jailed monarch ate only the best, papers reveal
Newly discovered official accounts show that, while a prisoner of Elizabeth I, her cousin lived a life of luxury
Dalya Alberge
05, Nov, 2022 @2:00 PM
New exhibition to explore mythology of Alexander the Great
British Library showcases two millennia of storytelling inspired by the ancient Macedonian conqueror
Esther Addley
20, Oct, 2022 @7:06 PM
Alexander the Great review – cultural treasures reduced to the status of comics
This infuriating show shoves Scrooge McDuck next to Plutarch in a postmodern take on history which seems to forget that the Macedonian warlord was a real, live person
Jonathan Jones
19, Oct, 2022 @3:47 PM
British Library to host Salman Rushdie celebration event
Writers including Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nigella Lawson will gather in London to share readings and reflections two months after the author was attacked on stage
Sarah Shaffi
10, Oct, 2022 @1:27 PM
‘I miss my hometown, my friend – and my mum’s delicious food’: the cookbook made by refugees
Far from their families in Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Chad, the young authors of Cooked with Love have found a way to recreate their favourite meals – and share them with the world
Polly Russell
20, Sep, 2022 @9:00 AM
The Lindisfarne Gospels review – was Eadfrith the monk Britain’s first great artist?
This mind-bending illuminated manuscript was created in AD700 by Eadfrith, a monk who was as entranced by pattern and abstraction as Jackson Pollock
Jonathan Jones
14, Sep, 2022 @4:12 PM
Aids: The Unheard Tapes review – tragedy and joy from voices no longer with us
This powerful documentary, based on recordings made by those caught in the first wave of HIV, is remarkable in its celebration of a hedonistic lifestyle shaped in part by a homophobic society
Lucy Mangan
27, Jun, 2022 @9:30 PM
The week in classical: Manchester Collective & Abel Selaocoe; Music@Malling; Music x Museums
Sparks fly as the South African cellist Abel Selaocoe and Manchester Collective live on the edge – and as six composers respond to Bach’s Brandenburg concertos
Fiona Maddocks
30, Apr, 2022 @11:30 AM
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