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Asian Britain: music and audiovisual
Rich and wide-ranging collections, especially of music and recorded sound
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Ballads and broadsides
Popular, cheap printed ephemera that kept people entertained and informed
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Black Britain: music and audiovisual
Rich and wide-ranging collections, especially of music and recorded sound
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Classical music recordings
Recordings in the western concert tradition, opera, liturgical music, and the pre-Baroque repertories of Western Europe
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Covid-19 collections
Collections relating to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
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Digitised printed books (16th–19th centuries) with...
British Library printed collection items digitised in partnership with Google Books
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Early printed books
Highlights of incunabula and books printed before 1600
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Evanion Collection
Victorian printed ephemera
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Hirsch Collection
Ca. 18,000 items of printed music and music literature and 76 manuscripts collected by Paul Hirsch and dating from the l...
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King’s manuscripts
Medieval and post-medieval manuscripts and topographical material
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Medieval and early modern British historical manus...
Sources for British history before 1600
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Medieval and early modern British literary manuscr...
Sources for British literature before 1600
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Music manuscripts and archives
Sources for vocal and instrumental works from the Middle Ages to the present
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Music recordings
Our vast collection includes commercial discs, tapes of radio broadcasts, and rare or unpublished recordings
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Pop music recordings
We hold one of the most wide-ranging collections of popular music in the world
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