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    Michael Palin donates 22 years' worth of notebooks to British Library

    Public will soon be able to peruse more than 50 of Palin’s notebooks in which many Monty Python sketches were written
    by Hannah Ellis-Petersen Jun 13, 2017 2 minutes
    Michael Palin: ‘My work has been inspired by, and created in, this country, so I’m very pleased that my archive has been accepted by the British Library.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian

    They are the pages where an unwilling messiah Brian, Mr Creosote, the Ministry of Silly Walks, a football team of philosophers and a dead parrot were all born. Now, more than 50 notebooks of original sketches and ideas for Monty Python have been donated to the British Library by Michael Palin.

    The public will now be able to freely peruse Palin’s archive of writings from 1965 to 1987, including the books

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