Collection guides

Datasets

Bibliographic datasets relating to our published and archival holdings.

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...

How to find and use the British Library's IIIF ena...

This collection guide will enable you to find and use our digitised collection items that are IIIF enabled.

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