The Hogwarts Library Box Set

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So, if you’re a Potterhead that has ever dreamed of attending Hogwarts School, you must visit John Rylands Library in Manchester. I’ve been to nearly all of the UK Harry Potter filming locations now and written detailed guides on how to visit them to live your best Wizarding World life! From Manchester Picadilly, it’s a 20-minute walk to the library or you can make use of Manchester’s Metrolink Trams.

If you’re a bibliophile and Harry Potter fan, there are plenty more bookish things to do after your tour of John Ryland’s Library. Released by Bloomsbury and Scholastic in 2016, this beautiful box set includes Quidditch Through the Ages and Tales of Beedle The Bard. Students were able to read and borrow most titles, although access to the Restricted Section was much more tightly regulated. On my recent visit, they had a British Pop Archive where you could see highlights like Ian Curtis’ handwritten lyrics and Tony Wilson’s vision for Factory Records.The Biblioteca Real Gabinete Portugues de Leitura (or Portuguese Royal Library) is the largest and most valuable library of works by Portuguese authors outside of Portugal.

They stayed together until John Rylands died in 1888 and it was then that she had the vision to create a library in his memory. And then, of course, there was the sheer size of the library; tens of thousands of books; thousands of shelves; hundreds of narrow rows. Built between 1712 and 1732 and stretching to 65 metres in length, the Long Room in Trinity College is the longest single-chamber library in the world and houses some 200,000 books. Think light-colored marble with red round cabochons, hunter green accents, stone-covered walls and ceiling carvings inlaid with polished marble disks. In the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the Library is divided into separate sections which are distributed throughout every floor of the castle, still containing a number of known secret passages concealed among their shelves.K. Rowling, and appearing in the Harry Potter stories themselves, the trio of Hogwarts Library books have always made a wonderful addition to a fan’s reading or listening journey. Although some of the 13,000 square feet building has a much more modern feel to it, there are some hidden gems within the 15 reading rooms that give off a very Hogwarts vibe.

As with a helpful librarian, students would not have to spend hours simply looking for the books they needed, but using the information that could have been found quickly in their homework, leaving less time for studying. Just a short walk south of Trinity College, the National Gallery of Ireland is Ireland’s premier art gallery and showcases work by some of the all-time masters of their craft. Picture classic black and white floors lit by an array of twinkling lights and surrounded by 300,000 volumes of books, sure to give any gathering a historic heartbeat.Apparently, the producers of Harry Potter made a visit to John Rylands Library before the first movie even started filming. I would always recommend avoiding Saturdays if you can as it can get very busy in here, especially in the afternoons.