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Excellent article on the future of the book very pessimistic but seems to have a point. My own feeling is that the way it will go will be books will be published which are really special physical objects. So books will become a souvenir. We read them electronically but true fans by the physical book (signed?) as an object to treasure with extra content? The other thing is that like the music industry writers will move to live events and make money from other aspects of their work. Are books dead, and can authors survive? | Ewan Morrison | Books | guardian.co.uk

So many stories in this list - one lot executed at Charing Cross, others at Tyburn, others fled to american, germany, belgium or holland, some forcibly repatriated to their deaths, others died, others pardoned, others imprisoned. List of regicides of Charles I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I looked this up because I thought she would have spoken with a french accent but with an english mum and being brought up in Somerset maybe the BBC's decision to give her an english accent is correct. (He dad was French) Elizabeth Pepys (wife, b. St Michel) (Pepys' Diary)

Virtual books (accessible version) - Jane Austen's The History of England: Pages 13 and 14

George Shillibeer's Omnibus The London Omnibus

The builder of Albion Mills, London Bridge, Southwark Bridge and more is celebrated at an exhibition until Ag 31 2011 Institution of Civil Engineers - John Rennie @ 250: Celebrating one of Britain''s greatest engineers

1st Sept at 7.pm at the Old Operating Theatre Museum THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY At this exclusive evening of mind-reading and cold-reading performance,The London Magician will talk about, and demonstrate, the mind-reading and magical effects that first flourished in the Victorian séances hosted by fraudulent mediums -people who were emulating genuine psychics in parlours across England. Meeting the dead, past-life regressions, amazing mind-reading, apports - the fraudulent mediums were the forefathers of the cold reading prodigies of today. But more than being told, you will be shown: magic will be performed, minds read, tales and fortunes told. Illusion, mentalism and conjuring meet, through a glass darkly. £15 (available on the door or at lastminute.com) ~

This is really bad news - this had the best collection of books on Museums I know of and it was easy to get to and easy to use. I used to send students there so they could get an easy overview of books on the subject. The Library used to be housed in the Reading Room of the old British Library and this was opened to the public as part of the Great court project - then the BM got 'greedy' and closed it to house block buster exhibitions, and moved the library to somewhere noone could find easily, now they have closed it. I suspect it helps them keep the Reading Room closed as a library - which is itself a disgrace - this is a really historic building and you can never seen the inside the way it should be because it is dressed for exhibitions. This really makes me angry! I wonder if they are breaching the spirit of the Grant applications they made which I assume must have mentioned making the Reading Room available to the public as part of it Even the BM management can...

Peter Rowsome's work on the new map of Londinium has born fruit and is now published available at the Museum of London. Museum of London - Publications

King's College London - Programme of events

I see the Museums Association are broadly welcoming the Arts Council demolition of the Museum structures that have underpinned strategy in the Museum world for the last 10 years work. The whole edifice of Renaissance in the Regions - misconceived at the very beginning, has now been abandoned not only by the Government and the Arts Council but also by the Museums Association and every other museum organisation. It is quite pathetic. They destroyed the membership based Area Museum services, telling us that the new Byzantine system of Hub Museums and strategic Museum, Libraries and Archives boards would serve us better. Then just about at the time that we got used to the Hub, and little MLA's then they ransform it into the idea of Core Museums, and then when ACE don't like it abandon that too, and say they are broadly in favour! What on earth is going on - is the Museum world full of yes-people who just let the powers that be kick them around? Yes, I broadly support you kicki...

This is a small display on the cost of living in Roman times at the British Museum British Museum - Cost of living

Two Temple Place built by John Loughborough Pearson for Viscount Astor is reopened with an exhibition from the William Morris Gallery