Highlights
Discover the highlights of the British Library through manuscripts, diaries, stamps, maps and views, scientific reports and illustrations.
Themes
- 20th century drama and theatre (1)
- Access (1)
- Antiquarianism (3)
- Art and Illumination (1)
- Art music and popular culture (1)
- Behaving and misbehaving (1)
- Big and small (1)
- Buddhism (3)
- Capturing and creating the modern (2)
- Childhood and children's literature (3)
- Christian Religion and Belief (1)
- Christianity (14)
- Clauses and content (3)
- Comedies (1)
- Context (6)
- Country (3)
- Deception drama and misunderstanding (1)
- Devotional texts (4)
- Elizabethan England (5)
- Ethnicity and identity (1)
- European influence (1)
- Exploring identity (1)
- Faith and religion (7)
- Fin de siecle (5)
- Food (1)
- Form and genre (6)
- Freedom (1)
- Gender and sexuality (11)
- Gender sexuality courtship and marriage (1)
- Global Shakespeare (1)
- Heroes and heroines (7)
- Hinduism (1)
- History and learning (1)
- Home and belonging (1)
- Illuminated texts (9)
- Illuminations and the art of writing (3)
- Islam (4)
- Jewish communities (1)
- Jewish Liturgy (1)
- Journeys (1)
- Judaism (6)
- Kabbalah and mysticism (1)
- Language and ideas (4)
- Language and voice (10)
- Language word play and text (1)
- Legacy (2)
- Life as a soldier (1)
- Literature 1900 1950 (1)
- Literature 1950 2000 (1)
- Living Texts (3)
- London (1)
- Look deeper (1)
- Magic and fantasy (1)
- Magic illusion and the supernatural (1)
- Magna Carta today (2)
- Making manuscripts (1)
- Medieval origins (2)
- Military and maritime (2)
- Movement (1)
- Myths monsters and the imagination (6)
- New technologies and digital research (2)
- Papyri (1)
- People and writing (3)
- Pilgrimage text and place (3)
- Poetry (1)
- Poetry nursery rhymes and wordplay (1)
- Politics and religion (5)
- Popular culture (1)
- Poverty and the working classes (1)
- Power and conflict (2)
- Power and politics (3)
- Privacy (1)
- Race empire and colonial troops (1)
- Reading and print culture (1)
- Religion (1)
- Renaissance writers (4)
- Representation and memory (1)
- Romanticism (3)
- Sacred texts (12)
- Satire and humour (1)
- Science and medicine (1)
- Science and nature (4)
- Sikhism (1)
- Talking animals (1)
- Technology and science (2)
- The art and design of writing (3)
- The Hebrew Bible (2)
- The makers of Greek manuscripts (1)
- The novel 1780 to 1832 (1)
- The novel 1832 to 1880 (2)
- The origins of writing (4)
- Theatre and entertainment (1)
- Theatre practitioners and genres (1)
- Town and city (5)
- Tragedies (1)
- Transforming topography (6)
- War (1)
- Women texts and faith (1)
- Wounding and medicine (1)
- Zoroastrianism (1)
Creator
- Abu Bakr [master illuminator], also known as Sandal (1)
- Ada Lovelace (1)
- Aldwyn Roberts (1)
- Andreas Vesalius (1)
- Antony Gormley and the British Library (1)
- Baruch (scribe) (1)
- Basilius [artist] (1)
- Bede (1)
- Binyamin (scribe) (1)
- Cassandra Austen [illustrator] (1)
- Charles Darwin (1)
- Charles Lyell (1)
- Christoffel Beudeker (1)
- Convenevole da Prato (1)
- Daṿid ben Mosheh Darshan (scribe) (1)
- Edmund Lyon (1)
- Edward Burne Jones (1)
- Edward Elgar (1)
- Eliyahu Menaḥem ha Zaḳen (author) (1)
- Fernão Vãz Dourado (1)
- Florence Nightingale (1)
- Franz Schubert (1)
- Friedrich Engels (1)
- Galileo Galilei (1)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (3)
- George Handel (2)
- George Price (1)
- Gerard Horenbout (1)
- Giovan Pietro Birago (1)
- Henry Purcell (1)
- Horatio Nelson (1)
- Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil (author) (1)
- Isaac Newton (1)
- James Gillray (1)
- Jane Austen (1)
- Jean Maillart (or Mallard) (1)
- Johann Fust (printer) (1)
- Johann Gutenberg (1)
- John Audubon (1)
- John Ray (1)
- John Siferwas [principal artist] (1)
- John Whas [scribe] (1)
- Karl Marx (1)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1)
- Lewis Carroll (1)
- Lord Halifax (1)
- Matthew Paris (1)
- Michael Faraday (1)
- Mosheh ben 'Ezra (author) (1)
- Muhammad ibn al Wahid [calligrapher] (1)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1)
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī [poet] (1)
- Oscar Wilde (1)
- Peter Schoeffer (printer) (1)
- Pietro Vesconte (1)
- Robert Scott (1)
- Ronald King and Roy Fisher (1)
- Samuel Coleridge (1)
- Shemu'el ben Shemu'el ibn Musa (scribe) (1)
- Siegfried Sassoon (1)
- Sir Thomas Malory (1)
- Thomas Hardy (1)
- Unknown (3)
- Unknown [Artist] (1)
- Wenceslaus Hollar (1)
- Wilfred Owen (1)
- Willem Blaeu (1)
- William Henry Fox Talbot (2)
- William Blake (1)
- William Caxton (1)
- William Daniell (1)
- William Hamilton (1)
- William Morris (1)
- William Shakespeare (1)
- William Tyndale [translator] (1)
- Wolfgang Mozart (1)
Date
- 700 (3)
- 800 (3)
- 801 (3)
- 802 (3)
- 803 (3)
- 804 (3)
- 805 (3)
- 806 (3)
- 807 (3)
- 808 (3)
- 809 (3)
- 810 (3)
- 811 (3)
- 812 (3)
- 813 (3)
- 814 (3)
- 815 (3)
- 816 (3)
- 817 (3)
- 818 (3)
- 819 (3)
- 820 (3)
- 821 (3)
- 822 (3)
- 823 (3)
- 824 (3)
- 1483 (4)
- 1540 (4)
- 1543 (4)
- 1800 (4)
- 1827 (4)
- 1828 (4)
- 1829 (4)
- 1830 (5)
- 1831 (4)
- 1832 (4)
- 1833 (4)
- 1842 (4)
- 1843 (4)
- 1847 (5)
- 1855 (4)
- 1956 (4)
- 1957 (4)
- 1958 (4)
- 1961 (4)
- 1962 (4)
- 1963 (4)
- 1964 (4)
- 1965 (4)
- 1966 (4)
- 1967 (4)
- 1968 (4)
- 1969 (5)
- 1970 (4)
- 1971 (4)
- 1972 (4)
- 1973 (4)
- 1974 (4)
- 1975 (4)
- 1976 (4)
- 1977 (4)
- 1978 (4)
- 1979 (4)
- 1980 (4)
- 1981 (4)
- 1982 (4)
- 1983 (4)
- 1984 (4)
- 1985 (4)
- 1986 (5)
- 1987 (4)
- 1988 (4)
- 1989 (4)
- 1990 (4)
- 1991 (4)
- 1992 (4)
- 1993 (4)
- 1994 (4)
- 1995 (4)
- 1996 (4)
- 1997 (4)
- 1998 (4)
- 1999 (4)
- 2000 (4)
- 2001 (4)
- 2002 (5)
- 2003 (4)
- 2004 (5)
- 2005 (5)
- 2006 (5)
- 2007 (5)
- 2008 (5)
- 2009 (5)
- 2010 (4)
- 2011 (4)
- 2012 (4)
- 2013 (4)
- 2014 (4)
- 2015 (4)
- 2016 (4)
Literary period
Formats
- Artwork (7)
- Audio visual (1)
- Bones (1)
- Book (17)
- Calotype negative and salted paper print (2)
- Charter (2)
- Diary (1)
- Draft (3)
- Drawing (2)
- Engraving (1)
- Fair copy (3)
- Folio (1)
- Hand colouring (1)
- Illuminated manuscript (12)
- Illumination (5)
- Illustration (2)
- Image (5)
- Journal (1)
- Letter (9)
- Manuscript (59)
- Map (14)
- Musical score (9)
- Newspaper (1)
- Notebook (3)
- Object (4)
- Page proofs (1)
- Pamphlet (1)
- Paper (1)
- Paper folding book (1)
- patent (1)
- Philatelic item Stamp (10)
- Photograph (2)
- Poetry (1)
- Postcard (1)
- Prayer book (1)
- Print (2)
- Printed book (4)
- Recording (1)
- Scroll (3)
- Seal (1)
- Stamp (1)
- View (1)
- Woodblock printed scroll (1)
Held by
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A Curious Herbal - dandelion
BookElizabeth Blackwell’s beautiful illustrations of medicinal plants would be notable enough in their own right, but the un...
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Admiral Lord Nelson’s Battle of Trafalgar Memorand...
Letter, ManuscriptOn 9 October 1805, twelve days before the Battle of Trafalgar, naval officer Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) sen...
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'Alice's Adventures Under Ground', the original ma...
Manuscript, Fair copy, Artwork, ImageA treasured early manuscript version of one of the most famous and enduring children’s stories, Alice’s Adventures in Wo...
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America: 1765 Tax stamps
Philatelic item - StampThese tax stamps were issued as a result of the 1765 Stamp Act passed by the British Government to extract taxation from...
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An die Musik by Schubert
Musical scoreThis manuscript shows an example of Franz Schubert’s song composition. His setting of verses by Franz von Schober dates ...
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Anglo-Saxon Mappa Mundi
MapThis map was probably created at Canterbury between 1025 and 1050, but is probably ultimately based on a model dating fr...
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Anne McLaren’s Notebook
NotebookDame Anne McLaren (1927 – 2007) was a developmental biologist who pioneered techniques that led to human in vitro fertil...
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Audubon's Birds of America
BookJohn James Audubon (1785 – 1851) was an ornithologist of the early 19th-century responsible for creating the largest and...
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Bedford Hours
ManuscriptA lavishly illuminated Book of Hours, gifted to Henry VI by the Duke and Duchess of Bedford. The Bedford Hours is regar...
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Beowulf
ManuscriptBeowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest....
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Canada: 1851 12d black
Philatelic item - StampThe first issue of stamps for the colony of Canada was made in 1851 and comprised three pence, six pence, and 12 pence v...
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Cape of Good Hope: 1855-63 one shilling bright yel...
Philatelic item - StampBefore South Africa was unified in 1910 the colony of Cape of Good Hope issued its own stamps, including the famous tria...
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Captain Scott's diary, volume 3
Diary, ManuscriptRobert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) and his four companions reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, just one month afte...
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Carmina Regia
ManuscriptThe magnificent painting in this book was intended as a gift for Robert of Anjou, King of Naples from 1309-43. It illus...
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Charles Darwin's natural selection letter
LetterCharles Darwin (1809 - 82) was a naturalist who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection which was publish...
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