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Reading Room of the British Museum Seeks Enlarged Home
In London the Reading Room, famed for quiet study and historic works, plans an expanded home across the street. Trustees expect government sympathy to ease overcrowding, with a proposed 1,820-seat library and storage to seven times current capacity, moving volumes to sites like Woolwich and Bayswater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh A. Mulligan
London
British Museum
Karl Marx
Lenin
Trotsky
Charles Dickens
William Makepeace Thackeray
Thomas Hardy
George Eliot
Thomas Carlyle
George Bernard Shaw
Edward Heath
Matthew Arnold
Bloomsbury
Europe
United States
Canada
Australia
Frederick Dainton
Nottingham University
Woolwich
Bayswater
Great Britain and Ireland
Vatican
Robert Smirke
Great Russell Street
Cnidos
Rome
Department of Printed Books
Guardian
Vincent Browne