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Post-Olympic Labour Policy

Mags Waterhouse | Posted 30.09.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: London 2012, 2012 London Olympic Games, Coalition, Boyle, Economy, Labour, Community, Jobs, Olympics News, Austerity, UK Politics News
Mags Waterhouse

What Boyle's Greatest Show on Earth showed was the possibilities of taking seriously - and joyfully - Tim Berner-Lee's injunction that "this is for everyone." How better to describe the socialist alternative to Cameron's failed attempt at the drabness and conformity of an austerity culture.

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You Can Tell the Olympics Are Coming

Jamie Andrews | Posted 15.09.2012 | Home
Read More: Literature, Dickens, Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, Bronte, Festival, Cultural Olympiad, Olympic, Ballard, London, Blake, Boyle, 2012, Home News
Jamie Andrews

At the British Library, we were aware that summer 2012 demanded something special for our major exhibition programme. From the manuscript of Beowulf, to the notebooks of J. G. Ballard, the Library has the finest collection of English Literature in the world, and the opportunity to open up this literary treasure-house to visitors in 2012 seemed irresistible.

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