Roll Back The Centuries -- A Georgian sand-box - used for drying the ink on letters - long before blotting paper was invented. The history of a country is written in many hands - in ***** ambitious seals of political *****, in the agony of war, in the songs of its poets - and no less in the ***** museums. British museums in particular ***** memories of the past. Here under prim glass cases, or ranged against sober walls are a thousand keys to unlock the halls of history. You hold in your hand a piece of bronze - a trifle like a pin, rushlight that has lit dim corridors through the ages - and a thousand years roll back in a flash. June 7, 1946. (Photo by Mirror Features).