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Chinese ceramics from Sir Percival David's collection now on display
London Review of Books lecture: Shakespeare and the shudder Monday 8 February, 18.30
Poetry, mathematics and myth Thursday 18 February, 18.30–20.30
The iconographies of identity 11 February, 18.30
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