Collection guides

Business and management studies

An extensive collection of published material on business and management

Covid-19 collections

Collections relating to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

Digitised printed books (16th–19th centuries) with...

British Library printed collection items digitised in partnership with Google Books

English accents and dialects

We have an extensive collection of spoken voice recordings

Major named collections of printed books

Named Collection of printed books

Major national oral history projects and surveys

Includes pioneering oral history material

Modern British history printed sources

Monographs, periodicals and printed ephemera on modern British history

Oral histories of business and finance

Testimonies from those involved in the City and many industries and companies

Oral histories of education

Recorded experiences of students, trainees and teachers

Oral histories of industry and employment

Reminiscences of heavy industries, rural work and working conditions

Oral histories of medicine and health professional...

Interviews with doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and physiotherapists

Oral histories of politics and government

Recordings that document British politics and government

Oral histories of social policy

Collections that survey British life, work and families in the twentieth century.

Oral histories of sport

Interviews with tennis players, swimmers, and track, field and road athletes

Oral histories of the history of women

Collections relating to women’s lives including home and working life, political activism and protest, feminism and gend...