British Library

EAR 's novel Four Frightened People was set more entirely than her previous one in Malaya (where the author had never been). It relied on her research at the British Museum .

After her previous book EL heard about the existence of typewriters, bought one, and learned in three weeks to use it. She put research as well as Suffolk memories into this novel, working on...

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...

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...

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.

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 .

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 .

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...

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).

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...

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...

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...