karl marx british museum reading room

Round Reading Room retires. LONDON It was home to Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin, W.B. Yeats andG.B. Shaw, a cathedral of scholarship that nurtured and inspired theinfamous and the anonymous for 140 years. William MakepeaceThackeray, who had seen the great domes of St. Peter's in Rome andSt. Paul's in London, said... The grand Round Reading Room in the British Museum, though, hasclosed its doors to scholars for the last time. Antonio Panizzi created this...


The Reading Room (British Museum). The Reading Room was used by a large


Old British Reading Room,


Museum reading-room,


Karl Marx at reading room of


British Museum reading room - dreaming of studying. Karl Marx also slept


British Museum Reading Room Ceiling. London, England.

Karl Marx used to work in the British Library, or the British Museum Library as it then was. Although that has now moved to St Pancras, the building including the magnificent Round Reading Room is still there. Below is his seat...
Op-Ed: Two political meetings to avoid in London soon

Its famous round Reading Room was built in the 1850s; beneath its copper dome laboured such scholars as Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, Peter Kropotkin, and Thomas Carlyle. In 1881 the original natural history collections were...
karl marx british museum reading room