Collection guides

Datasets about our collections

Bibliographic datasets relating to our published and archival holdings

Datasets for content mining

Content suitable for use in text and data mining research

Datasets for image analysis

Image collections suitable for large-scale image-analysis-based research

Digital mapping

Geospatial data, cartographic applications, digital aerial photography and scanned-in historic map materials

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

British Library printed collection items digitised in partnership with Google Books

Digitised printed books (18th-19th century)

Over 60,000 out-of-copyright digitised books from the 18th and 19th century available for viewing, search, download and...

Medieval and early modern British historical manus...

Sources for British history before 1600

Medieval and early modern British literary manuscr...

Sources for British literature before 1600

Russia in the UK Web Archive Collection

Russia in the UK Special Collection, UK Web Archive

UK Web Archive

Preserved web resources of scholarly and cultural importance from the UK domain

Western illuminated manuscripts

Approximately 9,000 manuscripts with decoration or illumination