Sleep Spent

For starters, I went to the Bank of Britain Museum. That was actually really interesting. I didn’t realize that the Bank was actually a private institution until it was nationalized in 1946 (along with a rash of other things like the railroads). That would be like having a private Federal Reserve which wouldn’t technically be required to act in the interest of the United States. This private bank managed the UK’s national debt from its founding in 1694. Cool stuff.

Then I headed over to the British Library, which I somehow managed to miss the last time I was here. shrugs It was really cool, particularly the part of the exhibition they had on typesetting. That whet my appetite for the real thing, which I’ll see sometime next week.

I also stopped by the London Transport Museum, though I’d already been to the museum part of it, to buy some stuff at the shop. I got a ginormous, laminatd poster of the Underground for my office. W00t!