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Captain Charles Johnson’s celebrated A General History of the Pirates (1724) is the most famous book about pirates ever written.

Buoyed by the volume’s runaway success, the mysterious Johnson followed up with the equally engrossing The Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous...

We hope you've enjoyed today's exploration of what hides on the shelves of the @britishlibrary archives with 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities'!

Pre-booked tickets are needed if you wish to visit our #ReadingRooms - and are available here: https://t.co/hfmriC7U1q

Oh, we're so excited that our #ReadingRooms at the @britishlibrary are opening their doors again today for pre-booked ticket holders!

So, for this wonderful re-opening, we'll sharing extracts from our very own 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities' by Ian Sansom.

Alice growing print - £25.00

The image is from The Nursery Alice, a shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Published in 1890, this used some of Tenniel's original drawings, enlarged and coloured.

#TattooTuesday is back for another instalment of the history of tattooing - but where does the word actually come from? John Miller very kindly breaks it down for us in 'The Philosophy of Tattoos'...

"'Tattoo' is one of a very few words of Polynesian derivation in common...

In this impressively broad yet personal account, John Miller – ‘a conventionally dressed middle-aged academic with a full bodysuit’ – explores tattooing as a unique expression of individual, cultural and national identity.

Happy #publicationday to two brilliant new books – the next addition to our #Philosophies series ‘The Philosophy of Tattoos’, and the next #ScienceFictionClassics anthology, ‘Spaceworlds: Tales of Life in the Void’!

The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the children grow up in the shadow of the First World War and Dorothy’s brothers go off, one by one, to the trenches, while she becomes involved with the suffrage movement.

It’s hard to believe there’s already seven(!) #WomenWriters titles published, with another two to follow in May along with a wonderful blog tour (and even more being planned for Autumn 2021)…

Do you have a favourite of the series? #FarMoreThanFiction

In today's #TattooTuesday extract (accompanied by some brilliant bodysuit designs by @lucaortistattoo), John Miller discusses the 5,300 year-old tattooed skin belonging to Ötzi, the ‘iceman’ in 'The Philosophy of Tattoos':

'The most famous, and so far the oldest, tattooed...