-
Vast Gulf history website celebrates four years and ten million page views
Related media: 3 images
-
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War opens at the British Library
Related media: 8 images
-
Wilde, the web and the world: the British Library comes to Hong Kong
Related media: 1 image
Press releases
Most popular downloads
-
British Library gates Paul Grundy…
5871 × 7509, 2.8MBBritish Library gates Paul Grundy
-
Russian moon globe from 1961 with NASA earthrise image of the earth in the background. Photo by Clare Kendall.
KATHERINE BLAMIRE, FROM THE BRITISH LIBRARY EXHIBITIONS TEAM, WITH A SOVIET MOON GLOBE FROM THE EARLY 1960S ON DISPLAY AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY'S MAPS AND THE 20TH CENTURY:DRAWING THE LINE WHICH OPENS NOVEMBER 4TH. PHOTO CLARE KENDALL. 20/10/2016
-
Target Berlin, 1943. Copyright British Library.…
2663 × 3543, 9MBTarget Berlin, 1943. Copyright British Library.
-
Evanion's entertainment at the Assembly Rooms, Broadstairs…
494 × 1426, 355KBEvanion's entertainment at the Assembly Rooms, Broadstairs
Unless stated otherwise, media content on the press area of our website, including images, is protected by third-party rights such as copyright or trademarks. The British Library is permitted to make the content available to you for promoting associated British Library’s exhibitions, events or activities. If you are not using images to promote a British Library activity, you must clear all rights for your use of any in-copyright material beyond uses permitted under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Filming and photography
Information about filming at the Library, including how to make a request to film
Other news around the British Library
Blog posts
From Switzerland to Hackney via India - a patient at Pembroke House Asylum
Thursday, November 15, 2018I recently came across the 1851 census return for Pembroke House Asylum in Hackney. This was a private mental health asylum in Mare Street where the East India Company placed patients from amongst its servants and their families. Hackney in...
Light in the Dark Ages: Anglo-Saxon Medicine
Wednesday, November 14, 2018The Anglo-Saxons and medicine (in the modern scientific sense of the word) do at first glance seem to be separated by a huge chasm of science and reason. No doctor today would recommend the use of cow dung in any...
Pawukon, Javanese calendrical manuscripts
Wednesday, November 14, 2018Today’s guest blog on the Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta Digitisation Project is by Prof. Ann Kumar of the Australian National University The highly complex Javanese calendar has evolved over many centuries. The year dating system used is the Indian Shaka...
Lady Paget and Serbia
Wednesday, November 14, 2018The Serbian community in Britain recently commemorated the 60th anniversary of the death of Louise, Lady Paget and celebrated her life and her work for Serbia. Lady Paget (1881-1958) is known for her humanitarian and hospital work in the Balkans...
Share this page
Please consider the environment before printing