The British Museum Library
- Full name: The British Museum Library and Archive
- Address: Montague Pl
- Vicinity: Russell Sq
- Neighborhood of Bloomsbury in London
- As Noted In: English National Heritage Listed I, Historic England
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1908/00/00 | Ezra Pound | Education | Ezra Pound studies at the British Museum | |||
| 1932/01/00 | James Hilton (novelist) | Author | While reading about missionaries in Tibet at the British Library in the winter of 1932, James Hilton, hits on the name 'Shangri-La' for his lost Himalayan locale. | Lost Horizon (book) | ||
| 1945/00/00 | One of four surviving originals, the knights of Wiltshire's copy of Magna Carta leaves Lacock and is presented to the British Museum. It is now in the collections of the British Library. | Magna Carta (document) |
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| The British Library, London |
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| NHLE List Entry Number: | 1130404 |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackmail | Film | Alfred Hitchcock | "Blackmail" is set at the British Museum in London, England. | |
| Casting the Runes (short story) | Short Story | M R James | It was in a somewhat pensive frame of mind that Mr Dunning passed on the following day into the Select Manuscript Room of the British Museum, and filled up tickets for Harley 3586. | |
| The Listener (short story) | Short Story | Algernon Blackwood | I have had no exercise lately, for the weather has been shocking, and all my afternoons have been spent in the reading-room of the British Museum, where I have a reader's ticket. |
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