Look, all I want is a beautiful ancient library with a secret door to an even MORE beautiful and MORE ancient library that allows dogs and cats and has a kindly ghost librarian and where I get to read my favorite books for the first time all over again and time stops when I walk…
On display in the British Library's Treasures Gallery, the beautiful Lindisfarne Gospels!
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Duke Humfrey's Library is our oldest Reading Room, with parts dating back to the 15th century.
What stories might it tell? What secrets does it keep? And when Readers have left for the day, does anything watch over it?
Happy Halloween weekend, booklovers all.
First set of tutorials at @magdalenoxford this afternoon - managed to book a somewhat outrageously nice room. (especially as it's hidden away up an old spiral staircase, I think for the students discovering it was perhaps the most fun/memorable thing about the whole class!)
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