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Fela Kuti photographed by Bernard Matussière, reproduced by kind permission of Knitting Factory Records for West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song

West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song

16 Oct 2015 — 16 Feb 2016

The title page from the 1950 London edition of CS Lewis' The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe. Copyright c CS Lewis Pte Ltd

7 Aug — 1 Nov 2015

Seal matrix of Robert fitz Walter, c.1235 © British Museum on display in Magna Carta

Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy

13 Mar — 1 Sep 2015 at The British Library, London

Inscription on the Magna Carta Memorial stitched by Pippa Foulds, Embroiderers’ Guild (Yorkshire and The Humber Region). Part of Cornelia Parker’s Magna Carta (An Embroidery) at the British Library

Cornelia Parker: Magna Carta

15 May — 24 Jul 2015

Walter William May, ‘HMS Assistance and Pioneer in Winter Quarters’, London, 1855, on display in Lines in the Ice. Photography courtesy of British Library.

Lines in the Ice

14 Nov 2014 — 29 Mar 2015 at The British Library, London

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