Category: Ita’s World

Guildhall Library has the largest library collection in the world devoted to the history of a single city. It offers books, pamphlets and periodicals from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries on all aspects of life in London, past and present, and on national, local and social history. It also offers a varied programme of events including talks, library and City walking tours, workshops and regular exhibitions. Early and Modern History The original Guildhall Library was built between 1423…

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Virginia Woolf was one of the most important and celebrated writers of the twentieth century. An extensive exhibition at the London Portrait Gallery* explores her life and achievements as a novelist, intellectual, campaigner and public figure. The exhibition includes distinctive portraits by her Bloomsbury Group contemporaries as well as intimate images recording her time spent with friends and family. Her early life and literary achievements, alongside lesser known aspects of her time in London and political views, are brought…

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