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New cataloguing of Private Office Papers

A newly catalogued series of India Office Records has been added to the Private Office Papers.

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Susan Miles and Barry Taylor standing on the stairs in the British Library with the hard copy of Harris’s A History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973.

'A History of the British Museum Library' now digitised

We have digitised an important work for the study of the history of librarianship.

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Front page of the Mirror, featuring the headline “Take us to Euro leader” and a colour photograph of (l-r) Michael Heseltine, Tony Blair, and Kenneth Clarke.

The British Newspaper Archive reaches 100 million pages

We celebrate this milestone and our long partnership with Find My Past by picking a few highlights from the BNA.

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Introducing our new catalogues

Our new main catalogue is here, as well as our interim Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue.

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