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Standing in front of a bookcase, feeling baffled.
It would be fair to say that even amongst the librarians here there is a fair amount of amusement— or bewilderment— about the Norman D Stevens archive . Stevens is the retired director of university libraries at the University of Connecticut and, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Media, Old Things, Publishing
Tagged alan bennett, andrew motion, castle park dean and hook, cyril connolly, david adjaye, geoff hook, harvard, horizon, hugh pearman, hull, karen coyle, library of congress, lrb, norman d. stevens, philip larkin, radcliffe camera, renata gutman, seattle public library, thomas jefferson, toads, university of virginia, veritas
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You’re Worse Than Crystal Palace
The strange British genius for turning media production into a prolonged spectacle, which we have seen during the hackgate scandal, dates back at least to the Great Exhibition of 1851 I would say. Reading through the huge profusion of books … Continue reading
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Tagged 1851, crystal fountain, crystal palace, day, Digby Wyatt, great exhibition, Guardian, Hackgate, industrial arts, lithograph, publishing, Punch, robert ellis, routledge
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