The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the largest libraries in the world...
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A library is a collection of books, and possibly other materials and media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions...
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the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the British Museum, but it continued to host the now separated British Library in the...
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British Library. They demanded a ransom of 20 bitcoin, at the time around £596,000, to restore services and return the stolen data. When the British Library...
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country. Thus, national libraries are those libraries whose community is the nation at large. Examples include the British Library in London, and the Bibliothèque...
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Roly Keating (section British Library)
Francis Kester Keating (born 5 August 1961) is Chief Executive of the British Library. He took up his post in September 2012. Keating was born on 5 August...
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collections" of the British Museum in 1753. It is now one of the major collections of the Department of Manuscripts of the British Library. Cotton was of a...
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second-largest library in Britain after the British Library. Under the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003, it is one of six legal deposit libraries for works...
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library to the nation as its first national library. This transfer established the formation of the British Library. The first true national library was...
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The British Library Sound Archive, formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound; also known as the National Sound Archive (NSA), in London, England...
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specially built gallery in the British Museum from 1827 to 1997 and now forms part of the British Library. The term "King's Library" was until recently also...
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Received Pronunciation (redirect from British Received Pronunciation)
identifies with Cruttenden's "Refined RP". An article on the website of the British Library refers to Conservative, Mainstream and Contemporary RP. Traditionally...
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given may not be directly comparable. List of largest libraries in the United States "British Library at Boston Spa". bl.uk. Archived from the original on...
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The British Library is located in Hyderabad, India, Established in 1979, it is among the most popular libraries in the city with a vast collection of...
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The British Library Philatelic Collections is the national philatelic collection of the United Kingdom with over 8 million items from around the world...
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The British Library of Political and Economic Science, commonly referred to as "LSE Library", is the main library of the London School of Economics and...
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Oxyrhynchus 655 London, British Library Or 4926 (1) at LDAB Walter Ewing Crum, Catalogue of the Coptic manuscripts in the British Museum. British Museum (1905)...
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Read or Die (section British Library)
world where the British Empire has remained a major superpower. The Empire's continued existence is guaranteed by the British Library (大英図書館, Daiei-toshokan)...
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which new material is no longer added) of the British Library in London, formerly the library of the British Museum. The collection comprises 7,660 manuscripts...
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London Canon Tables (redirect from British Library, Add. MS 5111. Gospel Book)
The London Canon Tables (British Library, Add MS 5111) is a Byzantine illuminated Gospel Book fragment on vellum from the sixth or seventh century. It...
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British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum, used to be the main reading room of the British Library...
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was bought by Robert Senior, a British collector. The Senior collection may be slightly younger than the British Library collection. It consists almost...
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1820, after the British Empire campaign on Ras Al Khaimah, six out of the seven emirates signed the General Maritime Treaty with the British Empire, which...
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enthusiast and supporter of the British Empire. After the fire incident in the British library, he was entrusted by the British library to guard "The Book of Pulsating...
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British Library Sounds (previously named Archival Sound Recordings) is a British Library service providing free online access to a diverse range of spoken...
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Magna Carta (category Cotton Library)
exemplifications of the original 1215 charter remain in existence, two at the British Library, one at Lincoln Castle and one at Salisbury Cathedral. There are also...
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via British Library Newspapers. "Currier's Transfer". Gloucestershire Echo. 30 April 1935. p. 6. Retrieved 21 November 2022 – via British Library Newspapers...
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The British Defence Film Library (BDFL) is part of the Services Sound and Vision Corporation and is responsible for maintaining the library and distribution...
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British English (BrE, en-GB, or BE) is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain. More narrowly, it can refer...
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(1982). British society since 1945,p.140. Harmondsworth: Penguin Black, Alistair. 2011. "‘New Beauties’: The Design of British Public Library Buildings...
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