About the British Library
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We are very proud to be working with The British Library, one of the world's greatest collections of books, maps, newspapers, manuscripts, drawings, music scores, sound recordings, photographs, stamps and patent.
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Established over 250 years ago, it receives a copy of everything published in Britain and Ireland. It also buys important publications from across the world and the collection covers most known languages. The material held by the British Library dates back to 1100BC. It includes information in every format from oracle bones to e-zines.
The British Library looks after treasures such as Magna Carta, notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, the Beatles' manuscripts and a recording of Nelson Mandela's trial speech.
People come from all over the world to see the historical documents and literary masterpieces in the British Library exhibition galleries and to study the great research collections in its Reading Rooms.
The British Library exists for everyone who wants to do research. Its collections include over 150 million items and it would take 80,000 years to see all the collections reading five items per day.
Our tiles are available as coasters and some of them as fridge magnets in the British Library shop. For more details please go to our stockists details.
For enquiries about titles published by The British Library, please telephone +44 (0)20 7412 7735, e-mail bl-bookshop@bl.uk or go to http://www.bl.uk/services/publications/bookshop.html