British Library

American  

noun

1. the national library of Great Britain: part of the British Museum until 1973.

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British Library British  

noun

1. the British national library, formed in 1973 from the British Museum library and other national collections: housed mainly in the British Museum until 1997 when a purpose-built library in St Pancras, London, was completed

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Example Sentences

The British Library, where I wrote several books, declined to pay such a ransom in 2023; its systems still have not completely recovered, but basic library operations continue.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

But his decorated manuscripts are kept abroad, at world-renowned institutions such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Library in London and the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

Dame Carol Black, chair of the British Library, described Wilde as "one of the most significant literary figures of the nineteenth century".

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

McQueen enlisted author Joshua Levine as a historical advisor and did extensive research with the help of the Imperial War Museum and the British Library to produce an original screenplay.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

A delightfully clear original manuscript of ‘Sumer is icumen in’, possibly in W’s own hand, survives at the British Library.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall