Using our online catalogue is a bit different at the moment. Watch this short guide to learn how to search for an item, and place an order in our Reading Rooms. If you need any help, just let us know. | British Library
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Using our online catalogue is a bit different at the moment. Watch this short guide to learn how to search for an item, and place an order in our Reading Rooms. If you need any help, just let us know. | British Library
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This library has every book ever published. - The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK — and the only one that doesn't pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That's a lot of books to store, and the internet's only making it worse. | Tom Scott
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This library has every book ever published. - The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK — and the only one that doesn't pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That's a lot of books to store, and the internet's only making it worse. | Tom Scott
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What are you looking for? It might be in the library. The one around the corner. Behind those doors, you’ll find community and friendly faces, music lessons and workspaces, free to work in with all the WiFi you need. Libraries are the poster child for borrowing too – and not only films, music and printed books. Download ebooks and audiobooks. Trace your family history from the archives. It’s sustainable, free and online. So whatever it is you’re looking for, a librarian can help you find it. Lib
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What are you looking for? It might be in the library. The one around the corner. Behind those doors, you’ll find community and friendly faces, music lessons and workspaces, free to work in with all the WiFi you need. Libraries are the poster child for borrowing too – and not only films, music and printed books. Download ebooks and audiobooks. Trace your family history from the archives. It’s sustainable, free and online. So whatever it is you’re looking for, a librarian can help you find it. Lib
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Take a free family trip through our collection and explore the stories behind objects which take you to wondrous places. | British Library
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Take a free family trip through our collection and explore the stories behind objects which take you to wondrous places. | British Library
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100 million pages and counting. Today, around 20% of the Library’s total newspaper holdings are available online. A remarkable achievement made possible through strong and sustained partnership. The 100 millionth page comes from the Dundee Courier and Advertiser, dated 3 September 1973, capturing everything from period advertisements to coverage of the Braemar Highland Games. | British Library
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100 million pages and counting. Today, around 20% of the Library’s total newspaper holdings are available online. A remarkable achievement made possible through strong and sustained partnership. The 100 millionth page comes from the Dundee Courier and Advertiser, dated 3 September 1973, capturing everything from period advertisements to coverage of the Braemar Highland Games. | British Library
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Passionate about history, arts and culture? Get free access to all our exhibitions for you and a friend with Membership. | British Library
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Passionate about history, arts and culture? Get free access to all our exhibitions for you and a friend with Membership. | British Library
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Take a sneak peek inside the conservation studio as our team prepares for our next exhibition, Secret Maps. From careful repairs to bespoke mounts, go behind the scenes and discover how the team gets these extraordinary objects ready for display. | British Library
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Take a sneak peek inside the conservation studio as our team prepares for our next exhibition, Secret Maps. From careful repairs to bespoke mounts, go behind the scenes and discover how the team gets these extraordinary objects ready for display. | British Library
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Fascinating tour of the British Library at Boston Spa for some of the team this morning! Including a look at possibly the most books anyone could see at one glance... Thank you BL, and thank you Libraries in Leeds for arranging the tour. | The Leeds Library
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Step quietly into the British Library, the world’s largest library, where towers of books rise like enchanted castles and every page hums with secrets waiting to be discovered. Free to visit and open to all, it’s a sanctuary for dreamers, loners, and seekers of magic. Lose yourself in stories that whisk you to far-off worlds and let the library’s quiet charm awaken your imagination📚✨ 📍The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB, United Kingdom 🎟️Free to visit To access the Reading Rooms
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Libraries are these big open doors to new worlds. They’re always there for us. Even if we’re not always there for them. Sometimes, we turn them off in our minds. But what if we switch our libraries back on? Said yes to borrowing again. To free workspaces. To community, sharing and connecting with each other. What if we all do it together? And give our libraries the love they deserve. It might just change our day, our week or even our lives. It’s time to switch your LibraryOn.org This week is #Li
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A dragon has landed at the British Library… 🐉✨ Created exclusively for Fairy Tales, this new illustration from the legendary Chris Riddell will guard the doors to our magical family exhibition opening on Friday 27 March. Bringing together beautiful books and artwork, interactive displays, and stories from around the world, Fairy Tales explores how these tales have enchanted us through time. Tickets are now on sale – book at https://link.bl.uk/FairyTales This exhibition is supported by Wayland G
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See rare botanical manuscripts, discover inspiring stories, and explore the fascinating world of gardening. | British Library
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Unboxing the British Library’s facsimile of Wuthering Heights #booktok #bibliophile #rarebooks
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Explore the world’s major faiths online through the British Library’s remarkable collection of sacred texts on our new website. | British Library
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