About Search our Catalogue, Archives and Manuscripts
Search our Catalogue, Archives and Manuscripts allows you to search for information about the British Library’s rich and unique archive and manuscript collections
The catalogue contains information about collections catalogued since August 2009 as well as our key ‘legacy’ archive and manuscript catalogues.
Current collections on Search our Catalogue: Archives and Manuscripts include the following; for more information about these collections, follow the links.
India Office Official Records
Music archives and manuscripts
Western Manuscripts
Wolley Charters
Key features
- The ability to search for detailed catalogue information about the Library’s archives and manuscripts, including the facility to navigate to and see descriptions of the collections and series of which they are part
- The ability to search for and see descriptions of people and places and then navigate to related archive and manuscript descriptions
- An easy-to-use Refine facility, to filter your Results
- The facility to tag or make notes about items that interest you (Note that inappropriate tags and notes will be removed; see our Terms & Conditions.)
- Alerts to provide you with updated results from your search queries
- RSS feeds to run search queries and notify you of new items found
Future developments
We will continute to add catalogue information from our other online and print archive and manuscript catalogues. In the meantime these other archive and manuscripts catalogues should be consulted alongside Search our Catalogue: Archives and Manuscripts.
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