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Connecting Stories – Our British Asian Heritage

Connecting Stories – Our British Asian Heritage

This exhibition opens at the Library of Birmingham on 15 July

Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition at the British Library, open 20 October 2017 - 28 February 2018

Harry Potter: A History of Magic – 2018 tickets now on sale!

Extra tickets over Christmas and January and February dates added

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Comics and Cartoon Art from the Arabic World

Now on display in our Treasures Gallery

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A unique Judaeo-Urdu manuscript, Or.13287

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