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British Library extension project to begin in 2026
The project is set to create about 100,000sq ft of new library space A £1.1bn extension of the British Library is expected to start in 2026, it has been confirmed. The project, which is set to ...
Time Out3mon
The British Library is getting an enormous £1.1 billion expansion
The British Library is officially getting a ‘groundbreaking’ makeover. A staggering £1.1 billion is going towards making the building by St Pancras station bigger, better and more innovative ...
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RSHP’s long-awaited £1.1bn British Library expansion to start next year
RSHP’s long-awaited plans to extend the Grade I-listed British Library in London are back on track after a Japanese investor agreed to finance the scheme Tokyo-based real estate company Mitsui Fudosan ...
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British Library's huge £1.1 billion extension goes ahead after securing Japanese backing
Work is due to start next year with completion by 2032. Under the terms of the agreement, the British Library will grant a long lease of the land to Mitsui Fudosan owned development partner SMBL ...
Londonist3mon
Huge £1.1 Billion British Library Extension Confirmed
The new extension is now expected to cost £1.1bn. Image: RSHP Plans for a £1.1bn extension to the British Library have been confirmed, after the Japanese developer Mitsui Fudosan said it will ...
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British Library acquires long-lost draft for Elgar masterpiece
The British Library has secured previously unknown drafts of Edward Elgar’s 'Introduction and Allegro for Strings', shedding new light on the composer's creative process. The British Library has ...
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Woman wins £7,500 after complaining British Library was too noisy to work in
It’s a rite of passage for almost everyone: being shushed at a library. But British Library worker Lidia Kogut sued the historic London institution for being too noisy – and has now won £ ...
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British Library worker who complained it was too noisy to work inside historic London institution is awarded £7,500 in compensation
The British Library has had the book thrown at it after a worker complained that it was too noisy. Lidia Kogut has been awarded £7,500 by an employment tribunal because she wasn’t given a quiet ...
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Funeral Atmospherics at the British Library
On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. Some 600GB of files, including the personal data of Library ...
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British Library Turns to Solar Thermal to Preserve Shakespeare’s First Folio
The British Library has some valuable charges to keep safe – Shakespeare’s First Folio, two copies of the Magna Carta and manuscripts by Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë. Now those ...
Financial Post8mon
British Library Turns to Solar Thermal to Preserve Shakespeare's First Folio
(Bloomberg) — The British Library has some valuable charges to keep safe – Shakespeare’s First Folio, two copies of the Magna Carta and manuscripts by Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë. Now those ...