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Development Newsletter features British Library
news and unique highlights from readers, supporters and staff. *Watch out for a name change to Supporters News in the next issue
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| Ways of Listening
Fri 7 Sep 2012, 18.30 - 20.00 |
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The eminent writer, critic, and thinker John Berger donated his archive to the British Library in 2009. This year marks the 40th Anniversary of two of Berger’s major works: the novel G., winner of the Booker Prize, and the collaborative, BAFTA-winning BBC TV series and book Ways of Seeing. In celebration, Colin McCabe and Tilda Swinton will present Ways of Listening, a new film of conversations with John Berger.
Book now
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| New Acquisition - What Mad Pursuit by Martha Gellhorn
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| A rare edition of acclaimed journalist Martha Gellhorn’s first novel is the latest acquisition for our North American collections. “Gellhorn consigned her debut to the past: she never listed it in her published works, and, once it had become out of print, it stayed there,” blogs Eccles Centre Writer in Residence and Young Patrons Ambassador Naomi Wood, who is exploring the lives of Ernest Hemingway’s four wives, of which Gellhorn was the third.
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| Win tickets to a VIP private view of our exhibition Propaganda
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| Opening 17 May 2013, the British Library’s exhibition Propaganda promises to be a must-see event. Featuring wartime posters and unfamiliar examples such as a Miss World protest leaflet, the exhibition
will challenge visitors to look at the world through a critical lens. Find out more about the exhibition in the proposal here and answer the question below for a chance to attend the VIP private view on 16 May with a friend.
Exhibition highlights will include First and Second World War postcards, radio recordings and speeches from Hitler, Enoch Powell and which American president?
A Barack Obama B George W. Bush
C Bill Clinton
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| Conservation Internship
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| European Literature
Night IV |
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| "The British Library's rich collections give us the opportunity to work on a wide range of items early in our careers - you just don't get that elsewhere, " interns Francesca Lemass (pictured above) and Anna Johnson
Supported by the
Garfield Weston Foundation and the Headley Trust, the conservation training programme offers two newly-qualified conservators the chance to undertake a year-long internship in the Library's world-class Conservation Centre, developing their skills and greatly enhancing their career prospects. We are delighted that one of our current interns, Anna Johnson, has already been offered a job at Cambridge University Library starting in the autumn.
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| On Wednesday 16 May
the British Library was honoured to host the London event for European Literature Night (ELN) for a fourth consecutive year, with parallel events taking place in cities across the continent.
This year saw the biggest line-up to date, including prize-winning novelists, short story writers and poets from Austria, Denmark, Germany and more.
Janet Zmroczek, British Library Head of European Studies and member of the selection panel said “ELN is the perfect introduction to the best in new European
literature”. ELN was presented in partnership with EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) London, the European Commission Representation in the UK and Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions.
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Supporter Stories
“My heart is always lifted when entering the building. As I told my son: Some women like to go to New Bond Street, others are happiest in the British Library!” Gerda Frank-Gemmill, Adopt a Book donor
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