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Description	English: Original caption: "HOLLAND HOUSE BADLY BURNED. WS/57. Holland House, Lord Ilchester's historic 17th. Century house, has been damaged during the recent air raids on London. An oil bomb started a fire on one of the towers and a 'Molotoff breadbasket' and a shower of incendiaries fell on the building. Firemen saved the east wing from complete destruction, but the rest of the house is a shell. Holland House, just off Kensington High-street, was London's great Whig salon in the 18th century and the home of Charles James Fox, and also earlier, of Joseph Addison, founder of the Spectator. Photo shows - The famous library containing a number of valuable and historical books was completely wrecked. FOX. OCT. 23rd. 40. [7]"^[1] The spectacle of the three men shown inspecting books in the library was likely staged for propaganda purposes.^[2]
Date	23 October 1940
Source	Published at http://blog.ifistanbul.com/files/2017/01/shadow-world01.jpg Alternative: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-library-at-holland-house-in-kensington-london-news-photo/2635892
Author	Harrison for Fox Photos Limited[1] (collection later acquired by Hulton Archive, subsequently purchased by Getty Images[2]). Image was first released Crown Copyright by Press and Censorship Bureau of en:Ministry of Information (United Kingdom).^[2]

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↑ Whittier-Ferguson, John (27 Oct 2014) Mortality and Form in Late Modernist Literature, Cambridge University Press Retrieved on 26 March 2019.
↑ ^a ^b Cadava, Eduardo (2001). "Lapsus Imaginis": The Image in Ruins. October. MIT Press. Retrieved on 26 March 2019. "That the image is most probably staged can be confirmed by comparing it to the image of the bombed-out library that appeared only one day earlier in the London Times. In the photograph of the destroyed library that was reproduced in the October 22, 1940, issue of the Times (p. 6), the books along the walls are much more disheveled, there is more debris scattered across the ground, there are no people inhabiting the space, and the atmosphere of the scene is strikingly more dark and ominous. In addition, the bombing of the library was not announced in the Times until over three weeks after the event. While this delay could be attributed to the disarray and chaos resulting from the blitz, it is also most certainly an effect of censorship: the British Ministry of Information was reluctant to announce the destruction of some of the city's most revered and historically significant buildings. Both of these incidents-the reproduction of the image in the London Times and the delay with which it appeared-suggest that the image before us was, among other things, staged to combat the psychological effects of the blitz: the Germans may have tried to destroy our books, our buildings-the symbols of our civilization-but we are still reading."

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Image title	HOLLAND HOUSE, Kensington, London. An interior view of the bombed library at Holland House with readers apparently choosing books regardless of the damage. Photographed in 1940. The House was heavily bombed during World War II and remained derelict until 1952 when parts of the remains were preserved. Holland House, originally known as Cope Castle, was a great house in Kensington in London, situated in what is now Holland Park. Created in 1605 in the Elizabethan or Jacobean style for the diplomat Sir Walter Cope, the building later passed to the powerful Rich family, then the Fox family, under whose ownership it became a noted gathering-place for Whigs in the 19th century. The house was largely destroyed by German firebombing during the Blitz in 1940; today only the east wing and some ruins of the ground floor still remain. In 1940, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth attended the last great ball held at the house. A few weeks later, on 7 September, the German bombing raids on London that would come to be known as the Blitz began. During the night of 27 September, Holland House was hit by twenty-two incendiary bombs during a ten-hour raid. The house was largely destroyed, with only the east wing, and, miraculously, almost all of the library remaining undamaged. Surviving volumes included the sixteenth-century Boxer Codex. Holland House was granted Grade I listed building status in 1949, under the auspices of the Town and Country Planning Act 1947; the Act sought to identify and preserve buildings of special historic importance, prompted by the damage caused by wartime bombing. The building remained a burned-out ruin until 1952, when its owner, Giles Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester, sold it to the London County Council (LCC). The remains of the building passed from the LCC to its successor, the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1965, and upon the dissolution of the GLC in 1986 to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Today, the remains of Holland House form a backdrop for the open air Holland Park Theatre, home of Opera Holland Park. The YHA (England and Wales) &quot;London Holland Park&quot; youth hostel is now located in the house. The Orangery is now an exhibition and function space, with the adjoining former Summer Ballroom now a restaurant, The Belvedere. The former ice house is now a gallery space. The grounds provide sporting facilities, including a cricket pitch, football pitch, and six tennis courts. In 1962, the Holland estate sold a piece of land immediately to the south of what is now the sports field for the construction of the Commonwealth Institute.
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[1] Whittier-Ferguson, John (27 Oct 2014) Mortality and Form in Late Modernist Literature, Cambridge University Press Retrieved on 26 March 2019.

[cadava-2] Cadava, Eduardo (2001). "Lapsus Imaginis": The Image in Ruins. October. MIT Press. Retrieved on 26 March 2019. "That the image is most probably staged can be confirmed by comparing it to the image of the bombed-out library that appeared only one day earlier in the London Times. In the photograph of the destroyed library that was reproduced in the October 22, 1940, issue of the Times (p. 6), the books along the walls are much more disheveled, there is more debris scattered across the ground, there are no people inhabiting the space, and the atmosphere of the scene is strikingly more dark and ominous. In addition, the bombing of the library was not announced in the Times until over three weeks after the event. While this delay could be attributed to the disarray and chaos resulting from the blitz, it is also most certainly an effect of censorship: the British Ministry of Information was reluctant to announce the destruction of some of the city's most revered and historically significant buildings. Both of these incidents-the reproduction of the image in the London Times and the delay with which it appeared-suggest that the image before us was, among other things, staged to combat the psychological effects of the blitz: the Germans may have tried to destroy our books, our buildings-the symbols of our civilization-but we are still reading."

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