Richard MacKichan Richard MacKichan is a writer, editor, seasoned traveller, and former editor-in-chief at travel website Mr & Mrs Smith. You can follow him @richeymack. At last, a new chapter for the Reading Room at the British Museum The British Museum’s Reading Room — where Sylvia Pankhurst and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once worked — has reopened at last. Richard MacKichan celebrates.