Only weeks after British culture was shown off to the world, the effects of the arts council cutbacks are beginning to be felt. Charlotte Higgins reports' Tell us how the arts cuts are affecting you in the comments section belowThe Central Library in Sheffield opened in 1934, when my father was four. As a teenager and medical student in the 1940s and 50s, he would work there, an escape from the confined, cramped home…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM on September 16, 2012