Collection guides

Black Britain: publications

Books, journals, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and zines, e-books, websites and more

Bookbindings

A wide-ranging collection of fine and historic bindings

Botany in British India

Sources in the India Office Records for botanical enquiry in India conducted by the British between 1780 and 1850.

British and Irish philatelic material

Stamps, related philatelic material, and philatelic literature from Brtain and Ireland

British Newspaper Archive

Over 40 million searchable pages, from more than 1,000 newspaper titles from UK and Ireland

Burney collection

Largest single collection of 17th and 18th-century English newspapers available

Burney manuscripts

One of the most significant collections of classical material in the British Library

Business and management studies

An extensive collection of published material on business and management

Canadian collections

Our collections span a large part of the nation’s history, from the colonial period to the present day

Canadian colonial copyright photographs

Canadian photographs that were received between the years 1895 and 1923

Canadian federal government publications

Our collections of printed Canadian federal government publications run from the colonial period to 2014

Caribbean collections

The British Library holds the largest collection of Caribbean materials in the UK

Cartographical collections

Travel collections and an extensive series of views by Wilhelm Berger.

Central Asian Turkic collections

Over 4,500 volumes of printed books, periodicals and newspapers, and more than 200 manuscripts

Central Office of Information Archive

The Central Office of Information Archive at the British Library is a unique collection of over 25,000 free information...