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3 May 2024
🌟 Exciting News! 🌍♻️ Introducing our partnership with Teemill, bringing you sustainable apparel inspired by the British Library's collection! From Shakespeare to Sherlock, celebrate literary greatness in style. Shop now: shop.bl.uk/collections/t-shi…
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8 May 2025
Signed copies of the brand new paperback of ‘The Book Lover’s Quiz Book’ (out today) are now available @BL_Shop!
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9 May 2025
Need wholesome weekend plans? 🌺
Swing by the free @craftyfoxmarket at @britishlibrary tomorrow! 40 brilliant makers with handmade treasures all alongside of the new Unearthed exhibition.
📍 British Library, St Pancras, London
🕒 10am – 5pm
➡️tinyurl.com/CraftyFoxMarket
ALT A photo of a market trader smiling with their handmade illustrations at an indoor market.
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3 May 2025
Next Saturday, the @britishlibrary is transforming into a haven for plant lovers for the Unearthed exhibition.🌱
Swing by on Saturday 10th May between 10am - 5pm to @craftyfoxmarket with 40 brilliant makers.
➡️tinyurl.com/CraftyFoxMarket
📌 96 Euston Road, St Pancras, London
ALT A photo looking over a busy indoor craft market with several stands and sellers selling handmade products.
ALT A photo of a market seller standing behind a table of their handmade colourful clothing in an indoor craft market.
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2 May 2025
The @Britishlibrary's brand new ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ exhibition is now open, and our shop is blooming with gorgeous new gardening goodies.🪴
Pop down to the British Library or shop some of the 'Unearthed' range online:
tinyurl.com/UnearthedShop
ALT A photo of flower themed books laid down on a patterned table next to some colourful crotched flowers.
ALT A photo of a gardening-themed product shop display with crotched flowers, plant misters and décor.
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24 Mar 2025
With Mother’s Day around the corner, check out Stories for Mothers and Daughters in our Women Writers series.👩
It captures the joys, struggles and tenderness of mother-daughter relationships through the 20th century.
Available in-store and online: bit.ly/41ZzlbJ
ALT A photograph of the cover of a book titled "Stories for Mothers & Daughters" with a white silhouette of a woman on a purple, blue, pink and orange background featuring illustrations of women.
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7 Mar 2025
Following unforeseeable events at two of the UK's leading book printers, upcoming titles 'Spores of Doom: Dank Tales of the Fungal World' and 'Not to Be Taken: A Puzzle in Poison' will be delayed for subscriptions and pre-orders. We apologise for any inconvenience.
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British Library Shop retweeted
1 Oct 2024
It’s beginning to look a lot like… murder. Publishing on October 10th is Dramatic Murder: A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery by Elizabeth Anthony. It’s 75 years since this novel has been seen, we are very pleased to bring it back! Including a new introduction by @medwardsbooks!
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29 Nov 2024
Grab a signed copy of the new opus, ‘The Eagle and the Hart’, from the doyenne of Medieval History, @hrcastor , who dropped by the British Library Shop this month.
Tried to hold back our fangirl vibes... Failed...😍📖⚔️
tinyurl.com/3pcbbwx3
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24 Nov 2024
There are many good reasons to visit our #MedievalWomen exhibition, and the @BL_Shop themed Christmas jumper is definitely one of them 🎅🎅
See highlights from the full exhibition range in today's blogpost.
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
ALT A medieval women-themed Christmas jumper, featuring designs of different women inspired by brass rubbings.
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21 Nov 2024
Cheers to the Haunted Vintage on Publication Day! 🥂
First published in 1921, this full-bodied tale blends scandal, asylums, local superstitions, and wine harvests. An Haute crop story from Marjorie Bowen.
3 for 2 @BL_Shop @BL_Publishing
tinyurl.com/4pvta67p
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VERY exciting news! I’m joining the @BL_Publishing @BL_Shop #TalesOfTheWeird series this December with ‘Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil’!👻
Join hands around the séance table for 14 classics & lost gems of fiction inspired by the spiritualism movement🕯️
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British Library Shop retweeted
19 Nov 2024
Just a little reminder, with Christmas looming…. We have a number of wonderful non-fiction titles that make perfect gifts! Available from @BL_Shop & all good bookshops!🎄
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British Library Shop retweeted
8 Nov 2024
If you long for a copy of I Am Stone whose value has been considerably reduced by the gnarled claw of Thee Editor then @BL_Shop is the place for you, you big weirdo
8 Nov 2024
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7 Nov 2024
Thanks to @neilbuttery for popping into @BL_Shop today to sign copies of his marvellous book The Philosophy of Puddings! Signed copies available now.
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British Library Shop retweeted
30 Oct 2024
Explore the dark side with our publishing team’s curated picks 👀💀. From unsettling short stories to haunting novels, discover what’s hidden in our archives… 📚🕯️ Shop now!
bit.ly/BLShopWeirdTales
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24 Oct 2024
Published today... haunting your dreams tonight 👁️📘
Grab a copy of ‘The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes’; be engulfed in illustrations by Peake, essential Haynes classics, obscure anthologies & archives.
From @BL_Publishing @craigscrolls @ohsinnerman
tinyurl.com/5cchpebj
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22 Oct 2024
The Philosophy of Puddings is published by @BL_Publishing & available to preorder from all good bookshops including the @BL_Shop
shop.bl.uk/products/the-phil…
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17 Oct 2024
It’s beginning to look a bit like the C word.
Ready or not, Christmas is Coming!
Explore the fascinating origin story of why we celebrate it with 'The Philosophy of Christmas', latest in the series by our cousins @BL_Publishing and @CiTaggart
tinyurl.com/yc45aaw7
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10 Oct 2024
Driving home for Christmas? Why not take the train!
Journey through the History of Railways via 140 exquisitely reproduced Maps, published TODAY and available here.
Ideal gift for the Train Whiz or Cartographer Connoisseur.
Nice work @BL_Publishing 😉🚂
tinyurl.com/4c8sr3s9
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4 Oct 2024
“Come out into the dark…come with us…”
Set for Samhain and all things All Souls?
Halloweird, the latest Gilded Nightmares from our cousins in @BL_Publishing and @ohsinnerman, available NOW from @BL_Shop tinyurl.com/2s3pwnry
Gettin’ that #HALLOWEIRD feeling 📚🎃👻
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