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]
^"Shortlist announced for £40k Wolfson History Prize". Books+Publishing. May 3, 2021. Retrieved June 16, 2022.
Book burning is the deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context. Theburning of books represents...
BurningtheBooks: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge is a 2020 book by Bodleian Libraries Director Richard Ovenden on the history of...
Theburning of books and burying of scholars was the purported burning of texts in 213 BCE and live burial of 460 Confucian scholars in 212 BCE ordered...
The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (German: Deutsche Studentenschaft, DSt) to ceremonially burn books in Nazi...
of the Nazi book burnings that took place in the Bebelplatz in Berlin, Germany on May 10, 1933. The memorial is set into the cobblestones of the plaza...
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cases, the destroyed works are irreplaceable and their burning constitutes a severe loss to cultural heritage. Examples include theburning of books and...
Theburning of the Jaffna Public Library (Tamil: யாழ் பொது நூலகம் எரிப்பு, Yāḻ potu nūlakam erippu; Sinhala: යාපනය මහජන පුස්තකාලය ගිනිබත් කිරීම, Yāpanaya...
Burning Man is a week-long large-scale desert event focused on "community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance" held annually in the western United...
2013. Originally announced as Gurney and theBurningBooks and intended for independent release in mid-2012, the band would later sign to major record label...
Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public...
that he wrote the book because of his concerns about the threat of burningbooks in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary...
by the stage name Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist, and musician. Burning Spear is a Rastafarian and one of the most...
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literature by burning magic books and became the depository of sacred literature that made up the canon of the New Testament." List of book-burning incidents...
A Burning is a novel by Indian-born author Megha Majumdar released in June 2020. By December 2020, the novel was on 13 lists of the best books of 2020...
it throughout the UK. Auton is also a poet and illustrator, with his work having been published in a series of books by Burning Eye Books. In 2020, Auton...
TheBurning Bed is both a 1980 non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered housewife Francine Hughes, and a 1984 TV-movie adaptation written by Rose...
TheBurning God is a grimdark fantasy novel by American writer R. F. Kuang and published by Harper Voyager on November 17, 2020, as the third and final...
Sonnenschein & Company. pp. 257–275. Chan, Lois Mai (1972). "TheBurning of theBooks in China, 213 B.C.". The Journal of Library History. 7 (2): 101–108. JSTOR 25540352...
Han Confucians portrayed the Qin dynasty as a monolithic, legalist tyranny, notably citing a purge known as theburning of books and burying of scholars...
library's incunabula. The burning of the University of Leuven's library caused the destruction of more than 230,000 books, including 750 medieval manuscripts...
TheBurning Maze is an American fantasy novel based on Greek and Roman mythology written by American author Rick Riordan. It was published on May 1, 2018...
Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo that is loosely based on the 1964 murder...
Richard BurningtheBooks. London: John Murray Fadhil, Muna (26 February 2015). "Isis destroys thousands of books and manuscripts in Mosul libraries". The Guardian...
her family and others is emblematic of the despairing lives of the poorer classes. The Nazi burning of books in the story represents evil incarnate. Symbolically...
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