A colleague gave me an "adopt a book" gift years ago. I had never heard of the scheme and was delighted to help conserve Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse". As an ex English teacher, I greatly appreciate the conservation work carried out at the British Library.
Alan Welsford
I have had a long time interest in books. Melvin Bragg's ‘In Our Time: The Written World’ Radio 4 talks led me to this website. As a graduate of Durham and a retired librarian I was much encouraged to see the proposed arrangement with Durham Cathedral Library. I hope this very small donation towards keeping the St Cuthbert Gospel book will join with other modest ones to help in the cause.
Mira Angelica Meneses, Adopt a Book donor
I've always been an Anglophile especially in terms of literature. Jane Austen has been a favorite author of mine and in 2007, I was able to make a two-week "pilgrimage" to the land of her birth which culminated in my viewing original manuscripts in the British Library. The conservation work the British Library does is important.
Kelly Lott, Adopt a Book donor
My teenagers aren't really in need of much more in the way of "stuff" this Christmas. They already own many books. I thought it was time to help them reach out and support the global community's treasures instead. Your "Adopt a Book" is a lovely way to achieve that aim.
Elisabeth Titley
I first became interested in the early Anglo Saxon church in Northumbria whilst on holiday in the area and visiting Lindisfarne. Since then I studied Anglo Saxon England in my final year of a history and archaeology degree at Nottingham as a mature student. As a Christian I have led a church trip to Lindisfarne, visited other areas connected with him, and am off to Lindisfarne yet again soon. To save this amazing book that belonged to St Cuthbert is of vital importance to the nation and especially to me.
Eleanor Darcy
My husband and I have both used the British Library and its manuscript collections for historical research over the decades, and we area very grateful for this unparalleled resource.
Alexandra
I have held a reader card to the British Library for more than ten years and have spent many happy and fascinated hours in the reading rooms. Many of my friends are serious book-lovers, so Christmas feels like the perfect opportunity to give them presents that I know they will love, and give something back to the Library at the same time!
Kevin Moore
In 1980 I visited the British Museum for the first time and was amazed to discover the British Library public displays. The music scores were amazing...Handel's Messiah etc. and I was immediately "hooked" on historical manuscripts.
