The United Kingdom has been front and center in the public eye this summer thanks to the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, whose opening ceremonies served up a pageant of quintessential Englishness, from Victorian stagecoaches and cricket to James Bond and the queen. The timing could not be better, then, to celebrate Britain’s national heritage—and the British Library is doing just that with “Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands,” on display through late September.
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