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A set of catalogue records for photographs (created 1850-1950) that are held at the British Library. Export from the Integrated Archives and Manuscripts System of only CC0 published records. Personal or sensitive information has been removed.
Beats and friends is a bibliography of material held by the British Library. The compiler has examined all items apart from some Document Supply Centre titles, dissertations and printed music. The entries are mostly based on the Library's catalogues, although additional information may be noted based on examination. Some books...
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The majority of catalogue entries can be found on Explore the British Library, the Library's main catalogue, which is based on Primo. Other collections have their own catalogues, such as western manuscripts.
This list provides an overview of post-1600 literary manuscripts and letters in the French language held in the British Library’s Western Manuscripts Collections. It was compiled in 1996 by Julian Conway, superintendent of the Manuscripts Reading Room. It focuses primarily on diverse manuscript material written by literary figures, with an...
Summary. Enables the user to search various British Library catalogs of over 12 million items including general printed books pre-1975, humanities and social sciences post-1975, humanities and social sciences open-access reference books, science, technology and business, document supply books, document supply serials, document supply ...
Jun 18, 2024 · The British Library has released of a metadata list of all British, Irish, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies newspapers held by the British Library. This is now available on the British Library’s open access Research Repository as a public domain dataset.
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