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Visit the British Library. You can visit our buildings in London or Yorkshire for free, although our services are currently limited. In London you can use our St Pancras Reading Rooms and public desks for personal study, and visit all our galleries,...
We're a bit different to your local library. You can't take books out, but you can use our Reading Rooms in London and Yorkshire for personal study and to access our collection. All you need is a free Reader Pass. Our users include academic...
There's a ton of British Library content on Wikimedia Commons which is great because of the open access nature of the site and its clear usage terms. Maps are included in a range of categories, including the Off the Map videogame competition and...
Digital guide to the British Library. Explore our London St Pancras building and collections with our free digital guide. Discover some of the world's most significant books, maps and manuscripts, find artworks on display around the building and...
The 'free to view' solution keeps the successful model in place, while making a significant and varied selection of titles freely available to all, to view and to download, without charge. There are 158 titles on offer, ranging from 1720 to...
One of the finest collections of historic maps of London anywhere, collected by a commissioner of London's sewers and George IV's interior decorator. Around 1200 maps from between around 1550-1850, digitisation generously funded in part by the...
The UK Web Archive (UKWA) is a partnership of all six UK Legal Deposit Libraries and aims to collect as much as possible of the UK web space at least once per year. Some of the collected websites are viewable through the UKWA website (...
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About us. The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's largest libraries. Its collections include more than 150 million items, in over 400 ...
A title-level list of British, Irish, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies newspapers held by the British Library. British Library. datasets, catalogues, media, newspapers, periodicals, and metadata.
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