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Birth of India: ‘biggest experiment’ with democracy was a huge gamble. Happily the people have made it work – here’s how
India’s constitution always gave the executive a great deal of power, but the diversity of the country’s electorate has ...
Monocle6d
Reusing waste heat, The British Library’s solar project and India’s stepwells
What are some of the ways that heating the air and water in our buildings can be made greener? We consider innovative ...
Computer Weekly7d
GCHQ historian Dave Abrutat’s mission to preserve the UK’s forgotten signals intelligence history
Dave Abrutat, official historian at GCHQ, is on a mission to preserve the UK’s historic signals intelligence (Sigint) sites ...
A football field of shelving: Recordkeeping and standardization at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
In the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives at Cambridge University Library, one man's papers take up a staggering 110 meters ...
The New York Times24d
Is British Food Still a Joke?
It’s hard to describe classic British dishes without reinforcing the stereotype that English food is bland, beige and soggy. Fish pie: a monochromatic pairing of milky cod and mashed potato.
Time Out28d
The British Library is getting an enormous £1.1 billion expansion
The British Library is officially getting a ‘groundbreaking’ makeover. A staggering £1.1 billion is going towards making the building by St Pancras station bigger, better and more innovative ...
Architects' Journal28d
RSHP’s long-awaited £1.1bn British Library expansion to start next year
RSHP’s long-awaited plans to extend the Grade I-listed British Library in London are back on track after a Japanese investor agreed to finance the scheme Tokyo-based real estate company Mitsui Fudosan ...
CBC.ca29d
No penalty for man who returned UBC library book 64 years late
An Edgewood, B.C., man is being commended for his thoughtful maintenance of a library book that he returned ... journalist who has worked at CBC British Columbia since 2021. Based in Vancouver ...
London Evening Standard29d
British Library's huge £1.1 billion extension goes ahead after securing Japanese backing
Work is due to start next year with completion by 2032. Under the terms of the agreement, the British Library will grant a long lease of the land to Mitsui Fudosan owned development partner SMBL ...
Londonist29d
Huge £1.1 Billion British Library Extension Confirmed
The new extension is now expected to cost £1.1bn. Image: RSHP Plans for a £1.1bn extension to the British Library have been confirmed, after the Japanese developer Mitsui Fudosan said it will ...
BBC29d
£1.1bn British Library extension plans to go ahead
Plans for a huge £1.1bn extension of the British Library are expected to be completed by 2032, the developer has confirmed. The project will see a total of 700,000 sq ft (65,090 sq m) of new ...
BBC29d
£1.1bn British Library extension plans to go ahead
The project will see a total of 700,000 sq ft (65,090 sq m) of new library, research and commercial spaces Plans for a huge £1.1bn extension of the British Library are expected to be completed by ...