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...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...to leave during the 1956 Suez crisis over concerns for the university library....
...In return, I was asked to write a short story and give a public talk. The first writer, last summer, was JM Coetzee....
...What A 3,455 sq ft house with five bedrooms, a library area, bar and wine cellar....
...There is an awakened public in Bangladesh. The middle class was very, very protective of its comfort zone....
...Two years of obsessive research generated a library of 18,000 documents, many of which Kubrick had pored over, and a picture cache of 15,000 items....
...In 2014, a collection of more than 165,000 Wedgwood works was bought and donated to the V&A after a public appeal by the Art Fund....
...This giant seven-courtyard, 497-room property was built to accommodate visits of the Habsburg emperor and his retinue, with frescoed ceilings and a library of more than 100,000 books....
...Li feared the worst, but the ticket collector merely waved him through, signalling his support for the protesters by making a V sign with his hand and smiling....
...I also installed the Diesel Library, changing the supply chain. There’s a QR code on each of the Diesel Library pieces that offers transparency of production....
...Delhi and Kolkata were reader-friendly cities, with decent bookshops and historical archives, but public libraries were — and are — still scarce....
...After opening to the public in 1948, it is now one of the most visited stately homes in the country, attracting, pre-pandemic, more than 600,000 visitors in 2019....
...As a student at Queen Mary University of London in 2016, she opposed a successful campaign to remove a foundation stone from the university’s library that was laid by King Leopold II, the Belgian king who...
...On June 24 1921, the British public was presented with extraordinary news....
...Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, yesterday published details of plans to find £10m of savings, partly cutting some curators’ jobs....
...Mr Trump’s campaign appeared to have registered the adverts in Facebook’s public library, as per protocol, but only showed them initially to a handful of users — suggesting they plan to boost their promotion...
...In the library, three topless men sit at a table, shooting the breeze....
...Already the Four Seasons George V, which had also planned to reopen on September 1, has delayed the big day for another three weeks....
...access to both a vibrant “vertical” community (with organic herb garden, curated cultural events and on-tap housekeeping) and East Bank, London’s major new cultural quarter, soon to house outposts of the V&...
...His new book, Humankind, displays his gift for synthesising libraries full of academic research into spellbinding reads....
...Just as important was the decision to put the images online so the public could download them for free....
...By contrast, some of the former public schoolboys she encountered had a “sense of entitlement”....
...US secretary of state Mike Pompeo’s speech last week at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was addressed to three audiences....
...Beard is a Cambridge don and public intellectual....
...It’s a glamorous do at the V&A....
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