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The Reading Room, I told Parker, was a temple to the deification of Bibliology. [20] The writer Bernard Falk (1882–1960) quotes the British historian Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) as having declared that the Reading Room of the British Museum was a convenient asylum for imbeciles whose friends wished them out of mischief's way. [21]
The court has a tessellated glass roof, engineered by Buro Happold [2] and built by Waagner-Biro, [3] covering the entire court, and surrounds the original circular British Museum Reading Room in the centre, now a museum. It is the largest covered square in Europe. [4]
Museum is a British television documentary series, produced by BBC Wales. It is a behind-the-scenes look at the British Museum, narrated by Ian McMillan and first broadcast on BBC Two on Thursdays at 7.30pm from 10 May 2007. It is in 10 half-hour parts. [1] There is an accompanying hardback book by Rupert Smith.
At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras. Today, the British Museum has grown to become one of the largest museums in the world, covering an area of over 92,000 m 2 (990,000 sq. ft).
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Over at the British Museum, the board of trustees took notice.A series of scandals, such as the one in which they discovered that a veteran curator had stolen more than 1,800 antiquities and sold ...
The prototype of what would become TV Guide Magazine was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), [5] who was the circulation director of MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities.
The Ipcress File (1965): An encounter between hero and villain, though using the exterior of the Royal School of Mines in South Kensington, used as the interior location a library at the British Museum (not the main reading room). [7] Day of the Jackal (1973): The Jackal is seen researching at the British Museum reading room. [8] [9] The ...