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The British Library Learning Team shares news on our collections, events & online resources for teachers, students, adult learners & families
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    Sep 9, 2024
    Discovering Literature's best-loved articles are available again. padlet.com/discovering_li… From Othello to Orwell, Agard to Angela Carter, we've recovered a selection of 100 articles, films and classroom resources, perfect for English teachers of Years 10-13.
    Dracula by Bram Stoker
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    Jan 3, 2023
    Primary schools! Have you booked your free place yet? This January, join @MichaelRosenYes, @vivschwarz @marastoryteller & friends for live events & activities to inspire your children to write their own fairy tales. Discover more & reserve your place: bl.uk/childrens-book…
    Photograph of author Michael Rosen surrounded by fairy tale characters and objects - including a wolf, bear, Little Red Riding Hood, a broom, spoon and Rapunzel at a spinning wheel - all drawn by Allen Fatimaharan. The text reads 'Fairy Tales with Michael Rosen and friends, British Library'.
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    Feb 23, 2021
    'A thing of beauty is a joy forever' 200 years ago today, John Keats died in Rome, aged only 25. Browse the beautiful manuscripts of 'To Autumn' & 'Ode to a Nightingale' and delve into pieces exploring his poems, his life and world: bl.uk/people/john-ke… #Keats200 #JohnKeats
    Manuscript of 'Ode to the Nightingale, 1819' probably in the hand of Keats' brother, George.
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    Dec 29, 2020
    In Macbeth, Shakespeare coins an extraordinary number of words including 'assassination', 'unsex' & 'stealthy'. In this piece, David Crystal shows how these linguistic innovations are central to the atmosphere of the play. bl.uk/shakespeare/ar…
    Frontispiece for Macbeth in the first illustrated works of Shakespeare edited by Nicholas Rowe, 1709
    Frontispiece for Macbeth in the first illustrated works of Shakespeare edited by Nicholas Rowe, 1709
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    Mar 26, 2020
    Calling all children! The @britishlibrary needs your help to create a zoo of talking animals. Write & illustrate your creature with tips from Axel Scheffler & let your imagination soar & flutter. bl.uk/childrens-book… We'll repost your creations #DiscoveringChildrensBooks
    Illustration for The Gruffalo by Axel Scheffler
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    Jan 4, 2021
    Primary teachers & parents! Help yourselves to our free resources, inspired by the wonderful world of children's books: bl.uk/childrens-book… Create a comic or cookbook, dream up an imaginary school, write an animal tale, a limerick or a giant book. #DiscoveringChildrensBooks
    Hands drawing a beetle, on a desk full of shells and feathers, coloured pencils, photos and elastic bands
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    Jul 27, 2020
    Teaching A Christmas Carol next term? Delve into Charles Dickens' world with articles on child labour, ghosts and Victorian Christmas. Or find original sources on the treadmill and ragged schools. bl.uk/works/a-christ… bl.uk/people/charles…
    Playbill for A Christmas Carol, as part of the Grand provincial tour of Messrs. Strange & Wilson's great pictorial, scientific, musical, and illusionary entertainment, 16-21 July 1877
    Broadside ballad on the tread-mill at Brixton Prison, c. 1807
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    May 12, 2020
    British Library asks nation's children to write miniature books in lockdown
    British Library asks nation's children to write miniature books in lockdown
    From theguardian.com
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    Sep 24, 2024
    English teachers! Browse 100 of our best loved Discovering Literature articles, including expert insights on Macbeth. padlet.com/discovering_li… Explore themes from manhood and 'the milk of human kindness' to the witches and Lady Macbeth.
    Print from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery showing a scene from Macbeth, with a heath, Macbeth, Banquo and three witches
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    Dec 7, 2020
    'So they went out in the dark, and all the street lamps were lit ... and they walked down the road to a café.' See Judith Kerr's vibrant artworks for The Tiger Who Came to Tea on our #DiscoveringChildrensBooks website: bl.uk/collection-ite… © Kerr-Kneale Productions Ltd 1968
    Sophie and her parents walking to a cafe by the light of a streetlamp. One of the Judith Kerr's original illustrations for the Tiger Who Came to Tea. © Kerr-Kneale Productions Ltd 1968. You may not use this material for commercial purposes. Please credit the copyright holder when reusing this work.
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    Apr 7, 2022
    Just look at the space-themed wallpaper, the rocket toy, the patchwork quilt, and the monster's mug of tea! ‘Not now, Bernard’ is pure delight, and we're heartbroken to hear that the wondeful #DavidMcKee has passed away.
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    Apr 26, 2021
    ‘I am Sir an Affrican – with two ffs – if you please' Written in April 1779, this is one of the only surviving manuscript letters of Ignatius Sancho, the most famous Anglo-African in 18th-century Britain - a writer, shopkeeper & anti-slavery campaigner: bl.uk/collection-ite…
    In this original letter, Sancho condemns English politicans and refers to his African heritage, writing, ‘I am Sir an Affrican – with two ffs – if you please – & proud am I to be of a country that knows no politicians – nor lawyers – no – nor Thieves’.
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    Jul 28, 2020
    Teaching children to plan & edit? We have fabulous drafts & notebooks to show the creative processes of Roald Dahl: buff.ly/2DaBwkU SF Said: buff.ly/3fdQ94s David Almond: buff.ly/308wC10 Zanib Mian: buff.ly/3jORMZx .. & many more © David Almond
    Page from David Almond's lined A4 notebook for Skellig, 1997
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    Feb 14, 2021
    I am 'not in good health of body nor of heart, nor shall I be till I hear from you'. Happy Valentine’s day! This is probably the oldest surviving Valentine’s Day letter in English, from Margery Brews to her fiancé John Paston in February 1477. bl.uk/collection-ite…
    Handwritten Valentines letter, 1477.