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An outdoor seminar at the Royal University: a professor with grey locs listens to a student, a reading gallery of bound volumes behind smoked glass, a long water basin.

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Twenty-two millennia of a kingdom that chose not to be found. Portraits, decrees, legends and the occasional classified file, catalogued by the Royal Archivists for longer than anyone can prove.

Every file carries its catalogue number, its date and its classification: public, restricted, classified or rumour. The Royal Archives are the only state archive in the world to keep a formal register of rumours. It is their largest. Handle with care. Some objects handle back.

Plate 02 · A seminar in the courtyard of the Royal University

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