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

Founded in 2015 as the UK's leading centre of AI research, the Turing institute, which is headquartered at the British Library in London, has been rocked by internal discontent and criticism of its research activities.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 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