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Blackwell's Pounds 5 million gift opens up Bodleian library
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THE head of the Blackwell book empire has given Pounds 5 million
to Oxford University's New Bodleian Library the biggest cash
donation of its kind.
The money from Julian Blackwell, whose great-grandfather founded
Blackwell's in 1879, will be used to help open up the treasures of
the 400-yearold library to the public.
It also marks the launch of a fundraising campaign to renovate
the building and turn it into a research centre.
Blackwell's, which opened its first store in ...
