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Doctoral Fellowship with the National Trust on Geo...

01 August 2022

The British Library and the National Trust invite applications to a joint doctoral fellowship scheme, which aims to unco...

Possible delays to your Reading Room requests

01 August 2022

We’re continuing vital work to improve our mechanical book handling system.

See our new exhibition at Leeds City Museum

29 July 2022

Opening today in Leeds, Living with Machines is a free exhibition revisiting the history of the Industrial Revolution in...

We’re opening as normal on Saturday 30 July

25 July 2022

Rail strikes are expected on Saturday 30 July, but our St Pancras site will be open.

Access more online content

04 July 2022

We've just added over 20 million items that can be accessed remotely with your Reader Pass, with thanks to the publisher...

Jaipur Literature Festival this weekend

10 June 2022

We’re making a few venue changes and some of the venues will be a little smaller than planned

Collaborative PhD opportunities

13 April 2022

Collaborative PhD opportunities

View our new extension plans

31 March 2022

We’ve submitted a planning application with our commercial development partner (SMBL) to extend our St Pancras site with...

Change to CLA copyright fees for book chapters fro...

29 March 2022

From 1 April 2022, CLA will provide a copyright fee specifically for book chapters, based on publisher-set pricing

Some of our collection items are temporarily unava...

28 March 2022

Stay updated on any disruption to the availability of items in our collection

One day preservation courses at the British Librar...

23 March 2022

Book your place on one of our Continued Professional Development courses.

New exhibition in Leeds

21 March 2022

Our collaborative exhibition with Leeds Art Gallery and artist Jill McKnight is open.

The archive of writer, psychotherapist and London’...

17 March 2022

Working drafts of fiction and non-fiction, letters from publishers and literary agents, a selection of books and ‘born-d...

RMS collection embargo

08 March 2022

We're enhancing our storage facilities in Boston Spa and some of our collections are being moved to enable this work. As...

Meet Jamal, our new Community Project Co-ordinator

02 March 2022

Meet Jamal and find out how he is working with the local community around the British Library.