Mind Palaces, Appledore and the Imperial Archive. Reading room of the British Museum Library, from the collections of the British Library. In his 1993 book,. 0160; The reading room in panorama, by Diliff. The Imperial Archive then, with its physical relics and imaginative shadows, is still with us. A concept relevant and evolving in the digital twenty-first century but always and ever just beyond reach.

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