In October 1731, a fire at London’s Ashburnham House destroyed portions of the Old Royal Library and the Cotton library. Fortunately, the Old Royal Library’s most precious object, the Codex ...
“But libraries, museums, and schools are fragile institutions; they cannot long survive violent assaults. A way of life was dying.” That quote is from Stephen Greenblatt’s book “The Swerve.” He’s ...
It has been a mere 2,000 years since this city’s great beacon of knowledge and learning -- its ancient library -- suffered one of history’s most famous fires. For a city with an eternal memory and the ...
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