The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” ...
Preface / Sir Colin Lucas -- Notes on contributors -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction : from texts to collections / David Pearson -- The foundation collections. Henry VIII's library and ...
During the 1880s, when for various reasons the intake of published music to the British Museum far exceeded the resources available to catalogue it, a decision was made to leave aside material thought ...
Do you believe in magic? If not, “Harry Potter: A History of Magic,” the latest exhibition at the British Library in London, might very well make you a believer. Opened last month, the exhibition ...
The British Library has announced it will posthumously reinstate gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde’s reader pass after revoking it in 1895 due to his homosexuality. Known at the time as the British ...
WTHAT sort of reference library can be provided in connection with the natural history collections when they are moved from the British Museum to South Kensington? is a subject now under consideration ...
THE ‘Iron Library’ extension, which is now being completed at the British Museum, London, by H.M. Office of Works, is an interesting development in the introduction of welded steel work. The present ...
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