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Language & Literature
Explore literary treasures, everyday ephemera, and the complex history of the English language, with unique texts from the British Library.
Sounds Familiar?
Travel through the country in this website, and discover the UK’s rich landscape of diverse accents and dialects.
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Changing Language
See how the English language has been altered, expanded, subverted and experimented with for hundreds of years. |  |
Books for Cooks
Rifle through six hundred years of recipes and remedies, from medieval potions and pies to 1920s cocktails. |
Texts in Context
From recipes and adverts to logbooks and songs, explore the many ways in which language is used and produced. | |
Dictionaries and Meanings
Trace the history of dictionaries, from scoundrels’ slang books to Caribbean lexicons. | |
English Literature
From Shakespeare to Alice, take a tour of some of the British Library’s finest literary treasures. |
Learning news
Timelines: sources from history is a new interactive resource that allows students and teachers to explore 800 years of collection items from the British Library chronologically.
Two conferences aimed at leaders in education, children’s services and heritage sectors will support the launch of the Ofsted Citizenship Report, ‘Citizenship Established’.
