As I walked to church today I took pictures of the V & A building where it had been hit during WWII. I thought it was really cool that they didn't fix the building, instead they left all the damage and marks to remind people of the war.

I also went to the British Library. These are some of the things I saw there.

This picture is of a letter from Sir Thomas Moore telling King Henry VII that he will not support him anymore. He was beheaded because of this.

This is William Tyndale's translation of the Bible into English. It had never been put into English before this and he was executed because of it.

At Hampton Court Conference in 1604 King James I approved a proposal that one uniform translation of the bible should be prepared by the best learned in both Universities in order to remedy the imperfections of current English versions. They preserved much of the wording of Tyndale to produce a book which in the historian Macauley's words, "if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of it's beauty and power." So this is the first ever King James Bible.

I also have pictures of the Gutenberg Bible which was the first bible to ever go to a printing press and have copies made of it. 180 copies were printed of it. But my blogger is being dumb right now and I can't get the picture of it to pop up!