Projects

We're more than a library and do a lot beyond our typical day-to-day operations. Discover more about our projects to transform our spaces, and how we work in partnership to preserve and share collections.

All projects

A visualisation of the renovated foyer in the British Library extension at St Pancras (looking south-west).

Transforming the British Library

We're reimagining what it means to be a 21st century national library.

Rural landscape with an electricity pylon in the middleground and trees in the foreground and middleground.

National Life Stories

National Life Stories is an oral history charity based at the British Library. It preserves a wide range of voices through in-depth biographical interviews.

Young Creators Lab

Aged between 18-24? Passionate about storytelling and social media? Then kick-start your career with Young Creators Lab at the British Library.