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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The public have voted, and to some surprise perhaps, TS Eliot has triumphed as the 'nation's favourite poet'(for this year at least). The modernist from Missouri saw off Wilfred Owen, Philip Larkin,...<br/>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[I went to a lecture last night at Birkbeck with my colleague Jerry (who has an interesting BL Twittter feed on the Library's vast international organisations collections). Richard J. Evans, the...<br/>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[My boss inherited many of the papers of the former superintendents of the Round Reading Room; these include a list of items displayed at an exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of the British...<br/>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been lucky enough to have spent the last week in the Pyrenees, riding some of the great mountain cols, such as the Tourmalet, the Aubisque and the Portet d'Aspet. I'm not sure which required...<br/>
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