The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the second largest library in the world by number of items catalogued.It holds well over 150 million items from many countries.It includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, sound recordings and music scores. Telling the stories from over 3000 years of human experience, the treasures from our collection include everything from ancient Chinese oracle bones, Magna Carta, the Lindisfarne Gospels and Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook to the Beatles’ lyrics and musical scores by Beethoven, Handel and Chopin.
