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Past Events
Here are the most recent events we had listed at The British Library, to give you a flavour of what goes on there
May
- Jáchym Topol at the European Writers’ Festival 2026
- Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2026: A Shortlist Celebration
April 2025
- Siglo de Oro - Celebrating Palestrina & Pärt
March 2025
- True Crime in the USA
- Jewish Treasures of the British Library
- Coco Tomita & Simon Callaghan - Echoes
February 2025
- Colouring the Medieval World
- Colouring the Medieval World
- Pilgrims: Trom the Sacred to the Profane
- Tales of Time: From Medieval to Modern
- Heath Quartet - Looking East Heath String Quartet
January 2025
- Fragments of the Past: Holocaust Legacies
- What Is The Black Archive?
December 2024
- Family Workshops: Enchanted Cinema
- LADYLIKE
- Panizzi Lectures 2024: Spaces of Black Study
- Panizzi Lectures 2024: Thinking Bibliographically
- Celebrating New Poetry: The Michael Marks Awards
- Cell: Julian of Norwich
- Silk Road Bazaar
- Travelling the Silk Road: From London to Beijing
- Cell: Julian of Norwich
- Panizzi Lectures 2024: In Search of Black Readers
- The W.G Sebald Lecture 2024 with Rowan Williams
November 2024
- The Polari Prize 2024
- Why Country Music Conquered The World In 2024
- →Irish Writers' Festival
- Graham Norton, Louise Kennedy, Paul Muldoon
- American Politics Group Colloquium 2024
- Echoes of the Silk Road
- A Silk Road Oasis: Curators' Lunchtime Lecture
- Gazelle Twin, London Contemporary Orchestra
October 2024
- Timeless Archives, Timely Connections
- Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets
- The 2024 USA Election Debate with Justin Webb
- Launch of Somali Week Festival 2024
- Saidiya Hartman: What Is The Black Archive?
- Classic Album Sundays presents Saint Etienne
- Bocas Lit Fest at the British Library 2024
- Revolusi: Indonesia and the Modern World
- The Story of the Caves
- The Poetry of the Natural World
- Some Men in London: Queer Life 1945-1967
September 2024
- The Golden Road with William Dalrymple
- Walk Good: In Britain's Colonial Countryside
- Family Day: Marvellous Me
- New Treasures of the Library: A BL Playlist
- The Story of the Afghan Women's Writing Group
- Connecting Science with People
August 2024
- Inside The Mind Of A Genius: Leonardo Da Vinci
- Relaxed Hours: Beyond The Bassline
- Relaxed Hours: Beyond The Bassline
- Sonic Transmissions x Iwoyi: Within the Echo
- Summer Scholars: Royal Pamphlets / HMB Endeavour
July 2024
- In Conversation with Leading UK Songwriters
- The Evolution of Black British Music
- Your Local Arena: The Rise and Rise of 2 Tone
- What Do You Call It? 30 Years Of UK Garage
- War & Peace & War: Twenty Years in Afghanistan
- Speech-to-Text and BSL Tour: Beyond The Bassline
- Relaxed Hours: Beyond the Bassline
- Black British Music Symposium
- Eddie Kadi: Me, Myself and Music from Africa
- The Forensic and the Fantastic - Latinx Poets
June 2024
- Queer Bruk Presents Tiana Major9, Talia A. Darling, Donnie Sunshine
- Joan Armatrading in Conversation
- The Pitt Lecture 2024 in Camden Lemn Sissay
- Generational Women: Stars of Music in Conversation
- Sound System Cultures Day at the British Library
May 2024
- George the Poet and Guests On Music George The Poet
- D Double E presents Rhyme-Antics
- Ezra Collective
- Soul II Soul
- Touching Bass x Jamz Supernova + DJ Paulette
April 2024
- Le Gateau Chocolat, Decus Ensemble
- An Evening with Eddy Grant
- An Evening with Yu Xiuhua
- Brian Cox: History on Stage and Screen Brian Cox CBE
- Dungeons and Dragons at 50
March 2024
- Adam Bloom
- Dave Cohen
- Joel Morris
- Zahra Barri, Njambi McGrath
- Gemma & Robert Ross
- Lou Sanders
- Doon Mackichan
- Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow
- Ed Gamble
- Sara Pascoe & Cariad Lloyd's Weirdos Book Club
February 2024
- Malorie Blackman talks to Bernardine Evaristo
- Dungeons and Dragons at 50
- Chinese Culture Through Photography
January 2024
- Merky Books Loves Malorie Blackman
- Holocaust Memorial Day - Resistance at Auschwitz
November 2023
- RSL Remembers: Sam Selvon
- Journeys To The Land Of Faerie
- Genre Marauders
- Late at the Library - Drexciyan Realms
June 2023
- Hal Cazalet Simon Beck
May 2023
- Cosmo Sheldrake Tom Mustill, Cerys Matthews