Chaucer, Beatles, the Bible oh my! Going to the British Library Museum MUST be on your London To-Do list. I must admit it took me far too long to just do it! After passing (and admiring) the BL since I arrived in the LON (it is only a mile or two from my flat mind you), I finally realized I had a spare night and that the 25 million book Library was open late and just went and took a look around.
The literary treasures held in the British Library blew me away. Yes, it's a small library but it packs a powerful punch of history into one room. From originals of Beowulf, a Gutenberg Bible, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur (King Arthur) Captain Cook's journal, Jane Austen's History of England, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and a room devoted solely to the Magna Carta...It's all there.
So if you try and do one thing off the beaten British tourist path, go to the British Library. I guarantee it it will be worth your London-loving while. (PS: You don't even need a library card!)
Mike, thanks for giving in to my relentless prodding to go and meeting me there!
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