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Reading Room of the Great Library at the British Museum seen from the Entrance, c1935

Reading Room of the Great Library at the British Museum seen from the Entrance, c1935. The circular Reading Room of the British Museum in central London was designed by Sydney Smirke (1798-1877). Construction began in 1854 and was completed in 1857. The Reading Room used to be the main reading room of the British Library. Famous users include Karl Marx, Lenin, Ghandi, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling and Virginia Woolf. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]

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King Charles VI of France receives the English envoys. From the Jean Froissarts Chroniques, before Artist: Master of the Harley Froissart (active 1460-1470)

King Charles VI of France receives the English envoys. From the Jean Froissart's Chroniques, before 1480. Found in the collection of British Library

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Fac-Simile of Letter by Cromwell to Lenthall, announcing Victory of Naseby, 1649, (1845). Artist: Oliver Cromwell

Fac-Simile of Letter by Cromwell to Lenthall, announcing Victory of Naseby, 1649, (1845). After an original letter by Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), to Lenthall Speaker of the House of Commons, part of the Harleian Collection, British Museum, London. From Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities, Volume II. [Charles Knight and Co. London, 1845]

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