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Bronte book wins place in musuem

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From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20060609
Author:

Lizzie Murphy

ONE of Charlotte Bronte's earliest manuscripts has earned its place in an online museum after securing almost a thousand votes in a television competition.

BBC2's People's Museum programme invited viewers to vote on their favourite museum artefacts from across the UK, which will now be placed in a virtual museum on the BBC's history website.

Charlotte Bronte's delicate book, which has rarely been seen in public, will now be temporarily displayed at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth.

The winner of the competition, with 1,631 votes, was the Enigma Machine, used by the Germans ...

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