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    The 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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    objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library. The Round Reading Room, which was designed...
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  • reading room in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Reading room may refer to: Reference library British Museum Reading Room Christian Science Reading Room...
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    at the British Museum (not the main reading room). Day of the Jackal (1973): The Jackal is seen researching at the British Museum reading room. The Awakening...
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  • of Long Sentences in Three Modern English Novels") in the reading room of the British Museum, is distracted time and again from his work and who gets into...
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    It was designed by Cornelius Sherlock, and modelled after the British Museum Reading Room, and was the first electrically lit library in the UK. It was...
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    Library (redirect from Study room)
    "reading rooms" or "study rooms", which may also include newspapers and periodicals. An example of a reading room is the Hazel H. Ransom Reading Room at...
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    8, and Doolittle at no. 6—and worked daily in the British Museum Reading Room. At the British Museum, Laurence Binyon introduced Pound to the East Asian...
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    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. The...
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    in close proximity to the British Museum Reading Room, where he wrote Das Kapital.[citation needed] Historic England. "Museum Tavern (1330367)". National...
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  • Royal Surrey Gardens. 1857 2 May: The British Museum Reading Room opens. 22 June: The South Kensington Museum is opened by the Queen. Although it is...
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    the University of Virginia built in 1826. British Museum Reading Room, London, built in 1857. The Rotunda Museum, Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The Central...
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    London. Located opposite Mudie's Lending Library and near the British Museum Reading Room in Bloomsbury, it became known in the early 20th century as a...
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  • newspaper Iskra at 37a Clerkenwell Green and studies in the British Museum Reading Room. In October, Leon Trotsky first meets him at Lenin's rented flat...
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  • Paul Hamlyn (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    within the British Museum Reading Room was named the Paul Hamlyn Library in 2000, following funding by his foundation, although the British Museum took the...
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  • uses the nearby British Museum Reading Room and Room 10. In addition, "Four and twenty blackbirds" was filmed in the Donaldson Reading Room of the Main Library...
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    Maxim Litvinov (category Use British English from March 2023)
    faction under Vladimir Lenin, whom Litvinov first met in the British Museum Reading Room. The two went to Hyde Park to hear some of the speeches, and...
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    8, and H.D. at no. 6, and they gathered to work daily in the British Museum Reading Room. Pound began to meet with other poets in London to discuss ideas...
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    Gerald Thomas (theatre director) (category Brazilian people of British descent)
    and Germany. After graduating as a reader of philosophy at the British Museum Reading Room, Thomas began his life in the theater at Ellen Stewart's La MaMa...
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    Designed by Thomas Fuller and Chilion Jones, and inspired by the British Museum Reading Room, the building is formed as a chapter house, separated from the...
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    by the prestigious British Museum reading room, the first iron dome in Canada was built in the early 1870s over the reading room of the Library of Parliament...
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    George Bernard Shaw (category People associated with the British Museum)
    reader's pass for the British Museum Reading Room (the forerunner of the British Library) and spent most weekdays there, reading and writing. His first...
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    George Gissing (category Use British English from August 2011)
    acquainted in 1879. Gissing spent much time reading classical authors at the British Museum Reading Room, as well as coaching students for examinations...
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    Dollie Radford (category Use British English from June 2019)
    was born in 1858 and in 1880 she met her future husband in the British Museum Reading Room and they continued to meet at Karl Marx's house. She married...
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    called the Picton Reading Room, modelled on the British Museum Reading Room. Picton was the first chairman of the library and museum committee, which was...
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    civil engineer, who claimed to have formed the design for the British Museum Reading Room, and was the first Professor of Architecture at King's College...
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  • book form in April by Michel Lévy Frères in Paris. May 2 – The British Museum Reading Room opens in London. May 5 – American publisher Moses Phillips hosts...
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  • Max Beerbohm's 1916 short story Enoch Soames occurs at the old British Museum Reading Room in London. June 26 – J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel...
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  • First Reading Room Regulations.--Alienation, Lending and Removal.--Binding.--Classification of Printed Books.--Photography.--The Natural History Museum Library...
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    Sydney Smirke (category People associated with the British Museum)
    Bury (1849–52; the latter two now demolished) The circular reading room at the British Museum (1857) King Edward's School, Witley, Surrey (1865) Exhibition...
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