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Discovering Literature features some of our greatest literary treasures through original manuscripts, first editions, and letters and other documents like newspaper cuttings that help to place the work in an historical context.
Four major digitised manuscripts restored. 30 October 2024 - We've now added the Moutier-Grandval Bible, Codex Sinaiticus, Chronicle of the Kings of Mann and the Isles; John of Salisbury, Entheticus in Policraticum etc., and the Lindisfarne Gospels to our restored digitised manuscripts. Manuscripts.
Let our school workshops shed light on topics spanning from sacred texts and intricate artists' books to Black British literature and the history of recorded sound. Join us for family fun from creative family days to our monthly Family Station, regular under 5s sessions and relaxed openings.
Whilst quarantined the Modern Manuscripts team has taken this opportunity to sort through reams of our metadata in order to write new collection guides. We have been working on summarising our archive collections relating to the women’s suffrage movement in the United Kingdom.
Discovering Literature, Gothic. In the very first Gothic novel, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), a figure steps down from a painting and enters the action, instigating an enduring trend for portraits in Gothic novels to behave rather strangely.
The Middle English work not only offers anchoresses spiritual advice, but also practical instructions about all aspects of their daily routine, outlining the rules they are expected to observe, from their food and drink to their clothes and possessions, and even the pets they could own.
‘It was amazing to see her original copies, because her books couldn’t be published in America, so they were published here. This is what we’ve got here at the British Library! Original from all those years ago. It’s also on our Black British Literature timeline, which looks at 50 writers over 400 years of Black writing in this country.’
The Library's own Black British literature timeline is full of inspiration. Some of us will be able to browse the shelves of a good bookshop or settle down with a paperback. Others may be inspired to visit their local public library or come into the British Library.
Old English texts surviving in later manuscripts range from heroic epics, such as Beowulf and Judith, to legal documents. Scientific texts were written or translated into Old English, and parts of the Bible were translated into Old English.