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The official website of contemporary artist Elsa Mora.

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Elsa Mora | Elsa Mora's official website

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Gunther von Hagens' macabre exhibition.

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eNCA | Macabre Body Worlds Exhibition Visits SA

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Introducing the anatomical works of Leonardo da Vinci that are still important in medical understanding today.

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The 'left right' brain is a myth.

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An introduction exploring depression.

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This artist creates anatomical drawings combined with nature.

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Shirin Neshat translates Iranian political unrest.

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Shirin Neshat translates Iranian political unrest through an artistic lens

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For Shirin Neshat, “art became a kind of an excuse to build a relationship, even from a distance,” to her homeland and history. Neshat grew up in pre-revolutionary Iran, then came to the U.S. as a student in the 1970s and is now an internationally recognized artist. She joins Jeffrey Brown to look at her latest exhibit, “Facing History” at Washington’s Hirshhorn Museum.

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Challenging the 'Tortured Genius' Myth.

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Van Gogh – Challenging the 'Tortured Genius' Myth | Tate

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The Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle.

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Kenwood: The Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle

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The Singh Twins 'Slaves of Fashion' exhibition.

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Introducing the contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare.

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Look closer

The British Library is an installation artwork by Yinka Shonibare. An installation is an artwork that is so big you might need to walk through it. Usually it is made for a specific place.

This installation is a library made up of over 6,000 books covered in fabric. This fabric is brightly coloured and Shonibare uses it a lot in his work. It is called 'Dutch wax print' and it has a complicated history.

In The British Library, Shonibare printed people's names in gold on some of the books. They are all first or second generation immigrants to Britain. An immigrant is someone who has left one country to live in another.

Shonibare chose to add the names of famous footballers and authors, as well as people who are not well known.

If you were in the installation you might see some names you recognise! There is also a table with tablets. If you visit the artwork you can read more about the stories of the people whose names are printed on the books. You can also use the tablets to submit your own personal history for people to read.

What do you think?

The books in the library represent many different family histories. This artwork asks us to think about all the families who have come to Britain. Why did they come? It could be big reasons (like the economy or politics or war) affecting the country they are leaving, or more personal reasons to do with their family.

This work makes us think about identity. What does it mean to be British? How can we celebrate the importance of immigrants to British society? Who writes our collective history down? What stories should we keep in a library? Is a library the best place to keep our history?

What do you think? Don't worry if you don't have all the answers.

This artwork is definitely meant to make you think, and the questions it asks us to consider are not always easy!

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Look closer The British Library is an installation artwork by Yinka Shonibare. An installation is an artwork that is so big you might need to walk through it. Usually it is made for a specific place. This installation is a library made up of over 6,000 books covered in fabric.

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Artist Barbara Walker talks about her new series of work 'Vanishing Point'.

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Titus Kaphar explores how art can change how we think about history.

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Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality.

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A practical, no-frills guide to all the relevant biology for KS3 & 4. Split into clearly defined topics, with clear explanations and diagrams makes it a perfect companion for revision.

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This edition is abridged but there are a few different editions of this classic text available from the library. 

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A retelling of the classic horror story about a scientist who creates his own human being using cadavers dug up from graveyards.

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The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran's last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.

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Flora doesn't do people", not since the Incident that led to her leaving school midway through her GCSEs. The Incident that led to her being diagnosed with bipolar II. The Incident that left her in pieces. Until Hal arrives. He's researching a story about a missing World War I soldier, and he wants Flora's help...

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A teenager and his autistic brother are taken in by a family whose home they have broken into to live in while they were away.

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What drives so many to leave everything behind and journey alone to a mysterious country, a place without family or friends, where everything is nameless and the future is unknown. This silent graphic novel is the story of every migrant, every refugee, every displaced person, and a tribute to all those who have made the journey.

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A guide to how the movement of people across the world has been shaped by Windrush and the Commonwealth.

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A Mami Wata mermaid must embark on a treacherous journey to make amends for saving the life of a boy at sea and endangering her people.

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First in an epic trilogy of verse novels set in 19th century Ghana, following a boy who is sold into slavery.