In 2010, with a bequest from the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Bodleian Library and the London firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects began to move forward with plans to refurbish the New Bodleian. Having served the community for seventy years, the New Bodleian housed more than three million books and manuscripts and was listed as a site of historic interest. Now, the stately building on Broad Street would preserve its facade while gaining updates to meet modern research needs.
"New Bodleian: The Making of the Weston Library" tells the story of how the plans for the new Weston Library as the...

"Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." So wrote Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR. Lenin was profoundly aware of the power of words. As a prolific writer and orator, he used his words to launch a soaring critique of imperialist society and to theorize the development of the world's first socialist state. Much of his writing was translated into English in order to further the socialist cause.

Revolution Sayings of Vladimir Lenin is a compilation of Lenin's most famous sayings, taken from speeches,...

"Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend."--from a letter to Cassandra, October 27, 1798

"You express so little anxiety about my being murdered under Ash Park Copse by Mrs. Hulbert's servant, that I have a great mind not to tell you whether I was or not."--from a letter to Cassandra, January 8, 1799

"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony."--from a letter to Fanny Knight, March 13, 1817

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