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To keep our users and all our staff safe and healthy we’ve taken the decision today to close our physical sites in London…

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Our Reading Rooms and public spaces may be closed for the time being but over the coming weeks we will continue to offer…

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Sân khấu: a Vietnamese magazine on theatre and performing arts

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UKWA: What's available when the reading rooms are closed?

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British Accents and Dialects: Listen to the UK’s rich landscape of spoken English

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A Description of Three Hundred Animals [page: frontispiece and title page]

The Devonshire Manuscript

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