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The national library, 200 million items behind Colin St John Wilson's red-brick ship at St Pancras, and one free room of its treasures, Magna Carta among them.
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The British Library holds a copy of everything published in Britain and Ireland and a great deal more, some 200 million items on shelves that grow by miles a year, and most of it lives in basements deep under the St Pancras building that Colin St John Wilson spent thirty-six years designing and building, the largest public building put up in Britain in the twentieth century. In the middle of the great entrance hall rises a six-storey glass tower holding George III's library, given by his son. The room to visit is the Treasures gallery, free and dim to protect what is in it: two of the four surviving copies of Magna Carta of 1215, the Lindisfarne Gospels, the only manuscript of Beowulf, Leonardo's notebook, Shakespeare's First Folio, Handel's Messiah in his own hand, Jane Austen's writing desk, and the Beatles' lyrics scribbled on the backs of envelopes and birthday cards. The reading rooms need a pass and the exhibitions charge; the piazza, the café and the treasures do not.
| Monday | 09:30 – 20:00 |
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| Tuesday | 09:30 – 20:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:30 – 20:00 |
| Thursday | 09:30 – 20:00 |
| Friday | 09:30 – 18:00 |
| Saturday | 09:30 – 17:00 |
| Sunday | 11:00 – 17:00 |
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