Decommissioned British Library web content
Best practise in managing web content is to regularly audit, review, and improve existing content or decommission content that fails to meet accessibility and our web content standards. Find out which content has been retired and what alternative content might be relevant.
We regularly review our websites and online resources to ensure they meet current technological demands and accessibility standards. Content is also checked and updated as necessary. If a website fails technology or accessibility requirements, its design and functionality will be updated or it may be decommissioned.
In many cases, users of a decommissioned resource will be redirected to equivalent or related material on our website. If we no longer provide an equivalent, we may redirect users to the UK Web Archive, where the decommissioned material is preserved. If these options are not available we will suggest other useful resources - please see the list below.
The following list of decommissioned web domains details the reason they were retired and the action taken to help users find equivalent or similar content.
Website | Reason for decommission | Alternative resource |
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Sound Collection: Haydn | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Mozart | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Derek Collier Collection | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Mátyás Seiber | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Chopin | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Oral history of Glyndebourne opera | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Beethoven | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Oral history of recorded sound | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: St Mary-le-Bow public debates | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Brian Moser & Donald Tayler Colombia Collection | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: John Howson English, Irish & Scottish Folk Music Collection | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Bob & Jacqueline Patten English Folk Music Collection | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Collection | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: John Brearley Botswana Collection | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Carole Pegg English and Scottish Folk Music Collection | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Nick and Mally Dow English Folk Music Collection | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Bob Davenport English Folk Music Collection | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Peter Kennedy Collection | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: David Rycroft South Africa Collection | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Sound Collection: Middle Eastern Music on shellac disc | Technological incompatibility | Sounds |
Online Gallery: The Amaravati Album |
Accessibility compliance | India Office prints and drawings guide |
Online Gallery: Breaking the Rules | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Deptford plans and drawings | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Durham: Echoes of Power | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Early Photographs | Accessibility compliance | Catalogue of Photographically Illustrated Books |
Online Gallery: English literature | Accessibility compliance | Discovering Our Collections |
Online Gallery: Evanion Collection of Ephemera | Accessibility compliance | Evanion Catalogue |
Online Gallery: Expressions of Faith | Accessibility compliance | Sacred Texts |
Online Gallery: Fire insurance maps and plans | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Grimm's Northumberland Sketchbooks | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Hans Christian Andersen | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Historical Texts | Accessibility compliance | Discovering Our Collections |
Online Gallery: Henry Purcell | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Illuminating the Renaissance | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: John Evelyn | Accessibility compliance | John Evelyn |
Online Gallery: Kensington Turnpike Trust drawings | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: King George III Topographical Collection | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Landmarks in printing | Accessibility compliance | Discovering Our Collections |
Online Gallery: Leonardo Da Vinci | Accessibility compliance | Leonardo's notebook |
Online Gallery: Lindisfarne Gospels | Accessibility compliance | Lindisfarne Gospels |
Online Gallery: Literary Landscapes | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Maps | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Maps and Views | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Maps of Africa | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Maps of Asia | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Maps of Europe | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Maps of the Americas | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Maps of the UK | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: The Mythical Quest | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Ordnance Survey drawings | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Philatelic Rarities | Accessibility compliance | Philately |
Online Gallery: Points of View | Accessibility compliance | Photographs collection guide |
Online Gallery: Remarkable manuscripts | Accessibility compliance | Discovering Our Collections |
Online Gallery: Topographical Drawings | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Quebec 400 | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Spanish American Independence | Accessibility compliance | Latin American Collections |
Online Gallery: The Spice Trail | Accessibility compliance | Raffles Collection |
Online Gallery: Topographical Drawings | Accessibility compliance | Picturing Places |
Online Gallery: The unveiling of Britain | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Victorian Popular Music | Accessibility compliance | UK Web Archive |
Online Gallery: Voices of History | Accessibility compliance | Sounds |
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