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The British Library is a location in Watch Dogs: Legion.

Background[]

The British Library building has been opened in 1998, to provide a purpose-built location for the Library, established in 1973 after spinning it off from the British Museum. Designed by Colin Wilson and Mary Jane Long, it is one of the largest research libraries in the world. However, after the TOAN bombings, the ever-more-powerful SIRS has embarked on a program that is comparable only to the Ministry of Truth of Orwell's fame: Purging anything that doesn't toe the party line from the Library records, from fiction warning about the perils of surveillance states, through speeches by prominent political and academic figures, to council and census records, in a bid to memory-hole pre-SIRS history. All unofficial and only apparent to regular users of the Library's archives, of course.[1]

Layout[]

Only the piazza of the library is accessible, with a paste-up on the side of the entrance gate (use the scissor lift to gain access). The text file is in the tunnel to the east, in the middle planter, while the two skimmers are by the facade.

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Text files[]

USB Text


British Library


I need more time to gather the material. Maybe some of it seems dry reading for a hacker, but trust me when I say it’s just as important. I might have another couple weeks access to the library’s archives before I’m found out.
- Council records, births, deaths, marriages, divorces, news stories of community events, council votes and motions
- Community zines, poetry, articles written by marginalised populations within London
- Speeches from political figures, essays from philosophers, academics, biographies of revolutionaries
- Classic novels, thought experiments, journals, all flagged because they describe and warn about the perils of a surveillance state
Even if you don’t publish this all on the darkweb, let it live somewhere. After SIRS purges the library’s archives, this information simply gets lost. This knowledge has to be preserved for the future if we’re to understand at all how we came to this state.


References[]

  1. The British Library text file

Navigation[]

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Camden Argyle InnBlume TowerCamden High StreetCamden MarketCarcani MedicalCovent Garden PiazzaCrescent ParkETO Bank Construction SiteHolborn ViaductKing's Cross StationLeather LaneMinistry of Civic ManagementRoyal Courts of JusticeSenate House LibrarySicilian AvenueSt. Pancras Grande HotelSt. Pancras InternationalThe British Museum
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