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The British Library was created on 1 July 1973 as a result of the British Library Act 1972. [13] Prior to this, the national library was part of the British Museum, which provided the bulk of the holdings of the new library, alongside smaller organisations which were folded in (such as the National Central Library, [14] the National Lending Library for Science and Technology and the British ...
The Lansdowne manuscripts are a significant named collection of the British Library, based on the collection of William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne. [1] The purchase of the collection by the British Museum was in 1807. [2] The main features of the collection, as outlined by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, are: [3]
The collection was originally acquired by the British Museum in 1861, before the British Library was created. The collection is based on Joan Blaeu's maps of towns of the Netherlands, Tooneel der Steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden, and the part of Blaeu's Atlas Major covering the Netherlands. Beudeker also collected many maps, portraits ...
The British Library has acquired the private archive – containing notebooks, video and photographs – of Hunter Davies, the author of the only authorised biography of The Beatles to date.
In 2005, the British Library, The National Archives, Wellcome Trust, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales and JISC formed the UK Web Archiving Consortium, a project to archive websites. [3] UKWAC archived selected websites by license or permission, using PANDAS software developed by the National Library of Australia.
Offline ever since the British Library cyberattack E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) is a bibliographic database and union catalogue of electronic theses provided by the British Library , the National Library of the United Kingdom .
The British Museum and the Reading Room serve as the settings for An Encounter at the Museum, an anthology of romance novellas by Claudia Dain and Deb Marlowe, among others. Virginia Woolf made reference to the British Museum Reading Room in a passage from her 1929 essay, A Room of One's Own. She wrote, "The swing doors swung open, and there ...
Access within the British Library is free. Starting in 2021, some newspaper pages from the years 1720–1880 are free to view online. [18] Full online access is by subscription, based on daily or item charges, £14.99 for one month or £8.34 per month for an annual subscription, as of December 2024.