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There Will be Fun: Victorian entertainments on show at the British Library in free exhibition
Posted on Thursday, Nov 10, 2016 | No CommentsRunning until the 12th March 2017, the British Library’s “There Will Be Fun” exhibition explores popular Victorian entertainments which have shaped the theatrical traditions of today. -
![Opening tomorrow, Friday 13th May, Punk 1976-78 is a small exhibition at the British Library charting the emergence and influence of early punk rock. Launched on the 40th anniversary of punk, the […]](http://www.urban75.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/punk-1976-1978-british-library-01-3-115x115.jpg "Punk 1976-78: Sex Pistols and the rise of punk rock documented at the British Library")
Punk 1976-78: Sex Pistols and the rise of punk rock documented at the British Library
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2016 | No CommentsOpening tomorrow, Friday 13th May, Punk 1976-78 is a small exhibition at the British Library charting the emergence and influence of early punk rock. Launched on the 40th anniversary of punk, the […] -
Magna Carta (An Embroidery) at the British Library celebrates the charter’s 800th anniversary
Posted on Friday, May 15, 2015 | No CommentsI got a sneak preview of the latest event at the British Library celebrating Magna Carta’s 800th year; an embroidery re-creating Magna Carta’s Wikipedia page… -
![Billed as the “UK’s biggest ever Gothic exhibition, “Terror and Wonder, the Gothic Imagination” opens today at the British Library in central London. Displaying two hundred rare objects, the exhibition traces 250 years of the […]](http://www.urban75.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/terror-wonder-british-library-011-115x115.jpg "Terror and Wonder, the Gothic Imagination at the British Library, London")
Terror and Wonder, the Gothic Imagination at the British Library, London
Posted on Friday, Oct 3, 2014 | No CommentsBilled as the “UK’s biggest ever Gothic exhibition, “Terror and Wonder, the Gothic Imagination” opens today at the British Library in central London. Displaying two hundred rare objects, the exhibition traces 250 years of the […] -
![Billed as the UK’s largest ever exhibition of mainstream and underground comics, Comics Unmasked tracks the British comics tradition back from modern works to 19th-century illustrated reports of Jack the Ripper and […]](http://www.urban75.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/comics-unmasked-british-library-011-115x115.jpg "Comics Unmasked, Art and Anarchy in the UK exhibition at the British Library, London")
Comics Unmasked, Art and Anarchy in the UK exhibition at the British Library, London
Posted on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 | 1 CommentBilled as the UK’s largest ever exhibition of mainstream and underground comics, Comics Unmasked tracks the British comics tradition back from modern works to 19th-century illustrated reports of Jack the Ripper and […]