Here’s one for all the bookworms 🤓 Completed in 1857, the British Museum’s Reading Room stands at the heart of the Museum and was hailed as one of the great sights of London, becoming a world-famous centre of learning. To use the library, readers had to apply in writing for a reader’s ticket issued by the Principal Librarian. Among the visitors to the room were some literary giants and historical icons such as Bram Stoker and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Virgina Woolf, Marcus Garvey, Karl Marx, Leni