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Explore the British Library is temporarily unavailable

We are sorry our main catalogue, Explore the British Library, is currently unavailable.

We are working hard to resolve this and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

However, you are able to use the following areas of the website which may help with your research or work:

• you may be able to find information via the main British Library website.
• if you are working in education please see our learning section for extra resources
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To find out what we hold you can search COPAC (Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues) which includes records for many of our collections.