Weston Library
Rebuilt special-collections library with a public hall, exhibition galleries, cafe and glass book bridges.
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This guide to the Weston Library in Oxford opens on an October day in nineteen forty-six, when King George the Sixth arrived on Broad Street with a ceremonial silver key to open the New Bodleian. From there it follows the money behind the building, from an American foundation in the nineteen-thirties to the donors who paid for its rebuilding seventy years later. Best heard standing inside Blackwell Hall, under the glass bridges.
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