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London British Museum Newsroom of 60 Thousand Tons of Papers
David Williams describes the British Museum reading room housing six storeys and fifteen miles of shelving with sixty thousand tons of newspapers. He notes preservation methods, historic milestones from 1622 to 1903, diverse global issues, and the appeal of tactile age pages that evoke personal memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
British Museum
London
David Williams
BBC
Williams
Nathaniel Butter
Britain
Daly Courant
Daily Mirror
Gentleman's Magazine of Fashion
Stamford Mercury
Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury
South America