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2020 book by Richard Ovenden
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge is a 2020 book by
Bodleian Libraries Director
Richard Ovenden on the history of intentional recorded knowledge destruction. It was shortlisted for the 2021
Wolfson History Prize .
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Bibliography
Cooke, Rachel (August 31, 2020).
"Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden review – the libraries we have lost" .
The Guardian .
ISSN
0261-3077 .
Hart, Christopher (August 30, 2020).
"Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden, review — knowledge under attack from the Nazis to Twitter" .
The Times .
ISSN
0140-0460 .
Howse, Christopher (September 5, 2020).
"Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden review: we can't keep all records – so what do we destroy?" .
The Daily Telegraph .
ISSN
0307-1235 .
Skapinker, Michael (September 1, 2020).
"Burning the Books — why memory matters" .
Financial Times .
Archived from the original on September 1, 2020. Retrieved September 7, 2020 .
References
Works cited by the book
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Life and Society in the Hittite World . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-927588-5 .
Carpenter, Humphrey (2008).
The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty 1768–2002 . John Murray.
ISBN
9780719565328 .
Casson, Lionel (2002).
Libraries in the Ancient World . Yale University Press.
ISBN
9780300097214 .
Clark, John Willis (1909).
The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and Their Fittings, From the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century . Cambridge University Press.
Conaway, James (2000).
America's Library: The Story of the Library of Congress 1800–2000 . Yale University Press.
ISBN
9780300083088 .
Duffy, Eamon (1992).
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England c.1400–c.1580 . Yale University Press.
ISBN
9780300060768 .
Gleig, George Robert (1821).
A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans, Under Generals Ross . John Murray.
Harris, P.R. (1998).
A History of the British Museum Library 1753–1973 . British Library.
ISBN
9780712345620 .
Hayner, Priscilla B. (2011).
Unspeakable Truths: Transitional Justice and the Challenge of Truth Commissions . Routledge.
Knuth, Rebecca (2003).
Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century . Praeger.
Layard, Austen H. (1853).
Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon . John Murray.
Leland, John (1895).
The Laboryouse Journey & Serche of John Leylande for Englandes Antiquitees ... S.
Lipstadt, Deborah (1993).
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory . Free Press.
ISBN
9780029192351 .
Macray, William Dunn (1890).
Annals of the Bodleian Library Oxford .
Makiya, Kanan (1998).
Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq . University of California Press.
ISBN
9780520214392 .
Meehan, Bernard (1999).
The Book of Kells . Thames & Hudson.
ISBN
9780500281468 .
Mercier, Désiré-Félicien-François-Joseph (1915).
Pastoral Letter of his Eminence Cardinal Mercier Archbishop of Malines Primate of Belgium Christmas 1914 . Burns & Oates Ltd.
Motion, Andrew (1993).
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life . Faber & Faber.
Orwell, George (2003).
Nineteen Eighty-Four . Penguin.
Peterson, William S. (1991).
The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-812887-8 .
Plath, Sylvia (1983).
The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Foreword by Ted Hughes . Ballantyne Books.
ISBN
9780345351685 .
Poole, Reginald Lane (1912).
A Lecture on the History of the University Archives . Clarendon Press.
Price, David H. (2011).
Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books . Oxford University Press.
Rich, Claudius James (1836).
Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh . James Duncan.
ISBN
9780576034661 .
Toynbee, Arnold J. (1917).
The German Terror in Belgium . Hodder & Stoughton.
Tripp, Charles (2000).
A History of Iraq . Cambridge University Press.
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