Libraries to visit London

You will need to be well organized not to miss this visit, which takes place only one hour a day. The building built in 1737 is the place where Lenin had an office from 1902 to 1903, publishing 17 editions of the Bolshevik newspaper Iskra. This office is maintained as it was at the time and can still be visited. The library itself was opened in 1933 to mark the 50th anniversary of Karl Marx's death. It gathers a beautiful collection of books on the history of Marxism, socialism and social movements.

The British Library collects every text published in England. It has 325 km of shelving and can hold no fewer than 12 million books. Permanent exhibition rooms showcase historical documents such as the Magna Carta and the Gutenberg Bible, as well as literary documents such as the complete works of Shakespeare, dating from 1623, and the handwritten and illustrated copy ofAlice in Wonderland that Lewis Carroll gave to Alice Liddell, the little girl who inspired him to write the book. But also texts by the Beatles.