What’s on

View all

News

British Library St Pancras building

Coronavirus notice

Our Reading Rooms and galleries will be closed from Thursday 5 November.

British Library, St Pancras

Accessing British Library online content and services

We’re closing our public spaces to keep everyone safe, but we’re always open online.

A Christmas card saying "Merry Christmas"

Shop to support us this Christmas

Support the Library and our independent makers and designers.

More news

Blogs

Medieval manuscripts blog from the British Library

900 years since the White Ship disaster

European blog from the British Library

Celebrating the centenary of Sovremennye zapiski

Untold Lives blog from the British Library

George Poland & Son – furriers to the rich, friends to the poor

More blogs

Learn

A graphic of people with placards expressing feminist demands.

Explore the powerful and vital stories of feminist activism in the UK with Women’s Rights: Unfinished Business

Collage of photograph of Andrea Levy's parents and one of her manuscripts

‘How come England did not know me?’: Recording Andrea Levy for Authors’ Lives

More Learning resources

Discover

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

Discover 'A Description of Three Hundred Animals', a natural history book for children

The Devonshire Manuscript

Explore this hand-written volume, known as the Devonshire Manuscript

Explore our Highlights

Get started

Get started at the British Library, photo of a Reading Room

Find out how to get a Reader Pass

Support us

Support the British Library

Help grow, protect and share our collection

Business support

Business support at the British Library

We can help you start, run and grow your business

Work with us

Students working in the Library

Current vacancies and other opportunities – and how to apply