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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 .[1]
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 Bryce, Trevor (2004). 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. External links