British Library
Exhibitions

A number of books and manuscripts are on display to the public in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery which is open seven days a week at no charge. Some manuscripts in the exhibition include Beowulf, the Lindisfarne Gospels and St Cuthbert Gospel, a Gutenberg Bible, Geoffrey Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales, Thomas Malory 's Le Morte d'Arthur (King Arthur), Captain Cook 's journal, Jane Austen 's History of England, Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre, Lewis Carroll 's Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Rudyard Kipling 's Just So Stories, Charles Dickens 's Nicholas Nickleby, Virginia Woolf 's Mrs Dalloway and a room devoted solely to Magna Carta, as well as several Qur'ans and Asian items.

In addition to the permanent exhibition, there are frequent thematic exhibitions which have covered maps, sacred texts, history of the English language, and law, including a celebration of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
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