British Library
About British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of over 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit library, it receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the United Kingdom. The library operates as a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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The British Library has a collection of over 60 million newspapers and none of them can catch fire.
from No Such Thing As Mulled Wine At The Dawn Of Time, 2017-02-24 at 00:18:31 · read transcript
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It's amazing. Although you can... Most of it's digitised, I think. The British Library is put up with the British Newspaper Archive, which I think I constantly mention, and they're digitising most of their newspapers on that. I think you're only allowed to extract something from this place in Boston Spa if it's not available digitally. Right. A weird thing about Boston Spa, it's a very small place in New Yorkshire.
153: No Such Thing As Mulled Wine At The Dawn Of Time, 2017-02-24 · listen
It gets in a van and they just bring it over. It's a lot of effort to read a newspaper. It's amazing. Although most of it's digitised, I think. The British Library is paired up with the British newspaper archive, which I think I can't suddenly mention. They're digitising most of their newspapers on that. I think you're only allowed to extract something from this place in Boston Spa if it's not available digitally. Right.
No Such Thing As Mulled Wine At The Dawn Of Time, 2017-02-24 · listen
Then in most cases, they do have a reading room there, but a lot of it is ordered from the Central London Library. It gets in a van and they just bring it over. It's bringing these... It's a lot of effort to read a newspaper. It's amazing. Although you can... Most of it's digitised, I think. The British Library is put up with the British Newspaper Archive, which I think I constantly mention,.
153: No Such Thing As Mulled Wine At The Dawn Of Time, 2017-02-24 · listen
I've got a flamethrower. Are they kept in water? Or in a vacuum? No, it's, so the British Library, obviously ginormous archive, too big to even fit in one place, in London, in St Pancras, where the British Library is. They have a warehouse out in a place called Boston Spa, which is out in the countryside of England. In there, they house all of the newspaper archive.
153: No Such Thing As Mulled Wine At The Dawn Of Time, 2017-02-24 · listen
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