Libraries in United Kingdom

Created in 1973 from the British Museum library departments, the British Library holds over 170 million items and acquires roughly...

Taking over the collections of the Advocates Library under a 1925 act, the National Library of Scotland is a legal deposit library...

Founded by royal charter in 1907 on a hill above the seaside town of Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru collects the writte...

Oxfords great library, refounded by Thomas Bodley in 1602 on the ruins of Duke Humfreys medieval hall, has been a legal deposit li...

First recorded in 1416, the University Library at Cambridge holds around 10 million books and maps as a legal deposit library sinc...

Enriqueta Rylands founded this neo Gothic palace of books in memory of her husband, opening it to the people of Manchester on New ...

Grown from the Public Record Office created in 1838, The National Archives at Kew holds more than a thousand years of British stat...

Thomas Carlyle founded the London Library in 1841, frustrated by rules that silenced readers at the British Museum. Its miles of o...

Christopher Wren designed this library for Trinity College, Cambridge, and it was completed in 1695. The single long room sits abo...

Founded in 1610 by the will of Archbishop Richard Bancroft, this is the historic library of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the ...