Yesterday on “World Book Day”1 I visited one of the oldest libraries (the Abbey of St Gall), which boasts a collection of some of the most ancient European books in an absolutely magnificent setting:



Looking at the artefacts and discovering facts I wasn’t aware of, my thoughts started to wander and I wondered whether in a few hundred years history would t…
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