Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished letters and journals, Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire, gives a fresh account of the Civil War ...

Deborah Moggach chairs a discussion with authors Philip Hensher, Hilary Spurling and Michael Frayn, to celebrate the launch of The Writing Life: Autho...

Professor Philip Bobbitt, distinguished academic and author, who has both served the White House in senior government positions and lived there, with ...

Simon Gikandi explores the effect that the spread of the English language through colonisation has had on the lives of African people. Accompanies the...

Curator Jonnie Robinson presents recordings that explore the ever-changing regional contrasts of the English Language. With discussion from a panel of...

What do Winston Churchill, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlton Heston and Melvyn Bragg have in common? They all said that no book has had greater influe...

A packed auditorium joined poet Don Paterson, Ben Crystal, Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen for an evening of appreciation and exploration of Shakespe...

The audience was invited to bring their favourite phrase, query or gripe for answers and discussion from our panel of language experts. With Victoria ...

A panel comprising C.P. Lee, Barry Cryer, Lucy Greeves, Tim Vine and Richard Wiseman discusses the mechanics of comedy at the British Library conferen...

Steven Pinker discusses the interplay of language and the mind and how psychological processes have shaped the English language. Introduced by Jonnie ...