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In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.

Remounted page, British Library Cotton Vitellius A. XV

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

The poem appears in what is today called the Beowulf manuscript or Nowell Codex ( British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv ), along with other works.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

They were joined in 1757 by the Royal Library, assembled by various British monarchs.

Together these four " foundation collections " included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf.

The books remained here until the British Library moved to St Pancras in 1998.

Under his supervision, the British Museum Library ( now the British Library ) quintupled in size and became a well-organised institution worthy of being called a national library, the largest library in the world after the National Library of Paris.

In the same year the Act of Parliament establishing the British Library was passed, separating the collection of manuscripts and printed books from the British Museum.

The Government suggested a site at St Pancras for the new British Library but the books did not leave the museum until 1997.

The departure of the British Library to a new site at St Pancras, finally achieved in 1998, provided the space needed for the books.

Today it no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library.

The original 1753 collection has grown to over thirteen million objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library.

The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library ( the British Library ) moved to a new building at St Pancras.

He holds a British peerage, and has publicly expressed a desire to see the House of Lords reformed as a democratically-elected chamber.

In British English it is not necessary to indicate an abbreviation with a full stop ( period ) after the abbreviation, when the last letter of the abbreviation is the same as the unabbreviated word, while the opposite holds true in North American English.

British band Napalm Death holds the Guinness World Record for shortest song ever recorded with the one-second " You Suffer " ( 1987 ).

As a British prince, Harry holds no surname ; however, as with the other male-line grandchildren of Elizabeth II, he uses the name of the area over which his father holds title ; i. e., Wales.

* 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.

She holds honorary degrees from the University of Toronto, York University, McMaster University, Trent University, and the University of British Columbia.

These notebooks — originally loose papers of different types and sizes, distributed by friends after his death — have found their way into major collections such as the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan which holds the twelve-volume Codex Atlanticus, and British Library in London which has put a selection from its notebook BL Arundel MS 263 online.

British Methodism does not have bishops ; however, it has always been characterized by a strong central organization, the Connexion, which holds an annual Conference ( note that the Church retains the 18th century spelling " connexion " for many purposes ).

SFU also has a Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, which holds many exhibits on lease from the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria.

Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art.

* January 7 – British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference at Zonhoven describing his supporting role at the Battle of the Bulge.

He holds both British and Australian citizenship and has enjoyed considerable success in stage performances in both countries.

During this time, Ferguson has won many awards and holds many records including winning Manager of the Year most times in British football history.

British Honduras for the English and Belice for the Spaniards and Guatemalans gained its independence from Great Britain in 1981 and adopted the name " Belize ", although Guatemala still holds territorial claims over this territory.

Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent.

Eddy runs her own PR firm, and Patsy holds a sinecure position at a top British fashion magazine.

The Duke of Cornwall holds both the dukedom ( title ) and Duchy ( estate holdings ), the latter being the source of his personal income ; whilst the Duke takes his Sovereign rights from Cornwall, those living in his estates are currently subjects of the British Sovereign.

Lancaster has several unique ties to the British monarchy ; the House of Lancaster was a branch of the English royal family, whilst the Duchy of Lancaster holds large estates on behalf of Elizabeth II, who herself is also the Duke of Lancaster.

Musicologist Bill McGlaughlin likens its place in British music to the place Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings holds for Americans.

The collection includes about 1130 British and 650 European oil paintings, 6800 British watercolours, pastels and 2000 miniatures, for which the museum holds the national collection.

After WWII Plon was chosen as the site for King Alfred School, a remarkable secondary school for British Forces children under the inspired, maverick headmastership of Freddie Spencer Chapman with his hand-picked staff and on the site of what is now the little-changed non-commissioned officer school, and as such the town holds a place of affection with many former pupils across the world and the declining number of surviving teachers and their families.

In July 2006, Norman Baker MP accused the British Government of " hoarding information about people who pose no danger to this country ", after it emerged that MI5 holds secret files on 272, 000 individuals — equivalent to one in 160 adults.

The Harleian Society, a British publisher of the official Royal Heraldic visitations, describes the Lowle Coate of Arms from the herald's records taken in Somersetshire in the years 1573, 1591, and 1623.

In her 1998 book, The Life of Elizabeth I, the British author and historian, Alison Weir states Throckmorton's and Raleigh's first child was conceived by July 1591.

At first he was no chronicler but he did eventually write descriptions of the south-east Asia he saw in 1583 – 1591, and upon his return to England, in 1591, became a valuable consultant for the British East India Company