British Library

For this work, published before her first voyage to India, she did research at the British Museum .

The title continues: Including sketches of the state of society in Holland and Germany, in the 17th century.EOB researched this book in the British Museum Library , where Samuel Carter Hall thought...

The unexplained tendency of reference sources to call her Elizabeth West instead of Elisabeth Wast (the name printed on the title-page of her book in its first edition) has caused that edition, which is not...

One reason for her year in London was her need, as a writer, to use the collections at the British Museum (now the British Library).

There he continued to write, supporting his family with a small income earned mostly from periodical publications, although the wealthier Engels often gave him financial assistance. In London, KM researched politics, history, and economics...

From the time of her marriage Lady CG took a keen interest in Welsh culture. When attention to her first baby left her short of leisure time, her Welsh studies took priority while Persian lapsed...

She worked regularly in the British Museum (on those resources which are now devolved to the British Library ).

AEH , who had been working as a clerk at the Patent Office and pursuing his scholarly interests in his own time at the British Museum , was offered a Chair in Latin at University College, London .

VW broadcast again, on her own, in 1937. Part of her broadcast (a reading of her essay Craftsmanship) is in the National Sound Archive of the British Library (M7060). The only extant recording of...

Anne Bradby (later AR ) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was...

This school, founded in 1898 and still flourishing in the twenty-first century, was unusual among fee-paying schools in its progressive tone and in being co-educational.EJ found the headmistress, Violet Hyett , one of the...

With help from his friends Adelaide Procter and Richard Monckton Milnes , CP was taken on as a supernumerary assistant in the department of printed books at the British Museum .

From the 1960s PL became a committee-man and public intellectual. He rendered service in various ways to his profession of librarianship. For the Arts Council of Great Britain he served on the literature panel, and...

BE , needing money to support herself and her children, worked as a library officer in the British Museum (where the British Library was then housed) in London.

Between them, Mary Howitt and her husband William wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the British Museum printed catalogue. Bearing the expenses of a...