Later important examples of the poetic form included Rudyard Kipling ’ s ‘ Barrack Room Ballads ’ ( 1892-6 ) and Oscar Wilde ’ s ‘ Ballad of Reading Gaol ’ ( 1897 ).

The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

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.

Infill galleries were constructed for Assyrian sculptures and Sydney Smirke's Round Reading Room, with space for a million books, opened in 1857.

The quadrangle at the centre of Smirke's design proved to be a waste of valuable space and was filled at Panizzi's request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, Sydney Smirke.

This was a time of innovation as electric lighting was introduced in the Reading Room and exhibition galleries.

The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.

The Reading Room is open to any member of the public who wishes to read there.

File: British Museum Reading Room Panorama Feb 2006. jpg | British Museum Reading Room

* Christian Science Reading Room

* Letter to the Philippians Online Reading Room: Commentaries and other resources ( Tyndale Seminary )

* Letter to the Philippians Online Reading Room: Commentaries and other resources ( BiblicalStudies. org. uk )

* Letter to the Philippians Online Reading Room: Commentaries and other resources ( NTGateway. com )

* Letter to the Philippians Online Reading Room: Commentaries and other resources ( TextWeek. com )

* Gospel of Luke Reading Room: on-line virtual library ( Tyndale Seminary )

* The Berkshire Brewery, Reading ( closed April 2010 )

Paperback Booksmith and Reading International closed by the end of the 1990s.

Pat's grandson, Rick, owned Rick's Original Philly Steaks at Reading Terminal Market, which closed in October 2008.

In the Championship, Reading have closed the gap between them and Sheffield United to three points, with Luton, Watford, Leeds and Crystal Palace completing the top six and Brighton, Crewe and Millwall in the relegation zone.

In 1914, Duryea closed the garage and left Reading.

The museum was closed for renewal in 1989, reopening in stages from 1993 ( the Reading: People & Place gallery ) to 2000.

In 1984, the Reading Terminal closed, and Philadelphia's Center City Commuter Tunnel opened.

In 2007, the library started with an ambitious program to renew and renovate its facilities: wireless access became available throughout the library in December 2007, in March 2008 the completely renovated Special Collections Reading Room Dousa was reopened, in June 2008 the fire protection systems installed in the closed stacks and the vaults of the library were taken into use, in December 2008 library patrons were able to make use of the new facilities created in the renovated Information Centre Huygens, and a new exhibition space was opened on March 25, 2010 in the direct vicinity of a completely renovated entrance.

Reading the paper one morning, Sherlock Holmes seizes upon one seemingly unimportant notice: the Tower of London has been closed for " reasons of security.

Upper Crust used to be at many sites but were all closed down expect for a couple of sites at Reading & Wetherby Services.

In 1851, the old route closed, and the eastern section, used only by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, was sold to them.

The Pearl, A Magazine of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading was a pornographic monthly magazine issued for 18 months in London by William Lazenby from July 1879 to December 1880, with two Christmas supplements ; it was closed down by the authorities for publishing obscene literature.

Over time the Ports, was re-branded as Boscov's, and later replaced by Steve & Barry's, before the location became vacant, Reading China & Glass closed and its building was split between Marshalls and Office Max, Sears leaves the mall for the first time and was replaced by General Cinema, itself acquired by AMC Theatres.

Guns N ' Roses headlined the Friday night at Reading Festival 2010 and closed Leeds Festival two days later.

The Air Force closed its facilities at Reading airport and it was returned to full civil control.

* Ronald Dworkin, Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997 ).

2, 1997, The Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, The University of Reading, Reading 1997.

Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

In August 1997 and 1998 the estate was the site of the V Festival but, after the success of the event, this was replaced by a new northern leg of the Reading and Leeds Festivals from 1999, taking place the weekend after the regular V festival slot in August.

The band have played at the Reading Festival in 1992, the Glastonbury Festival in 1994, Lollapalloza in 1994, Finsbury Park in 1997, and the Warped Tour in 1995 and 1999.

Due to the success of the album, Suede secured top billing at the 1997 Reading Festival.

In 1997, this function moved to the new British Library building at St Pancras, London, but the Reading Room remains in its original form inside the new British Museum.

Designed by Sydney Smirke on a suggestion by the Library's Chief Librarian Anthony Panizzi, following an earlier competition idea by William Hosking, the Reading Room was in continual use from 1857 until its temporary closure in 1997.

* “ Reductionism and the First Person ”, in Jonathan Dancy, ed., Reading Parfit ( Blackwell, Oxford, 1997 ), pp. 230 – 50

Published by Garnet, Reading, 1997.

At the end of the 1997 – 98 season the Loftus Road club avoided relegation at the expense of Manchester City, Stoke City and Reading but the club's directors and supporters expected more.

Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

In the 1997 general election May was elected the Conservative MP for Maidenhead which extends as far west as the village of Sonning on the East side of Reading where she lives.

Nafisi left Iran on June 24, 1997 and moved to the United States, where she wrote Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, a book where she describes her experiences as a secular woman living and working in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Amongst other functions, Earley Town Council runs Sol Joel Park, leased from Reading Borough Council for 50 years, Meadow Park off Meadow Road, Bulmershe Park ( jointly with Woodley ), the BMX track near Paddick Drive which was opened in 2011, 2 community centres and Maiden Erlegh Lake, which was declared a nature reserve in 1997.

( 1997 ) ' Reading Recovery: A summary of research '.

These include the Carl Newell Jackson Lectures at Harvard University ( delivered 1976 ); the Stenton Lecture at Reading University ( delivered 1976 ); the Haskell Lectures at the University of Chicago ( delivered 1978 ); the ACLS Lectures in the History of Religion ( delivered 1981-2 ); the Curti Lectures in the University of Wisconsin, Madison ( delivered 1988 ); the Raleigh Lecture in History in the British Academy ( delivered 1992 ); the Tanner Lectures at Cambridge and Yale ( delivered 1993 and 1996 respectively ); the Sigmund H Danziger Jr Memorial Lecture at the University of Chicago ( delivered 1997 ); the Menahem Stern Lectures in Jerusalem ( delivered 2000 ); a Presidential Lecture at Stanford University ( delivered 2002 ); the Charles Homer Haskins Lecture (" A Life of Learning ") for the American Council of Learned Societies ( delivered 2003 ); and the Ronald Syme Lecture at Oxford University ( delivered 2006 ).

* Mark Davis, P, Philadelphia ( 1980 – 81 ; 1993 ), San Francisco ( 1983 – 87 ), San Diego ( 1987 – 89 ; 1993 – 94 ), Kansas City ( 1990 – 92 ), Atlanta ( 1992 ), Milwaukee ( 1997 ), played in 28 games for Reading in 1980

* Julio Franco, SS / 2B, Philadelphia ( 1982 ), Cleveland ( 1983 – 88 ; 1996 – 97 ), Texas ( 1989 – 93 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1994 ), Milwaukee ( 1997 ), Tampa Bay ( 1999 ), Atlanta ( 2001 – 05 ; 2007 ), New York Mets ( 2006 – 07 ), played 139 games for Reading in 1981

* Darren Daulton, C, for Philadelphia ( 1983 ; 1985 – 97 ), Florida ( 1997 ), played in 113 games for Reading in 1983 ( and in one rehab game in 1991 )