Wikipedia:GLAM/British Library/Outline

General

 * British Library


 * BL (or BL-involved) programs:
 * International Dunhuang Project
 * EThOS
 * Incunabula Short Title Catalogue
 * Sloane Printed Books Project
 * Short Title Catalogue Netherlands


 * BL groups/facilities
 * British Library, Boston Spa
 * British Library Business & IP Centre
 * Private Case (the restricted-access collection)

Collections
Many individual collections are listed in subpages of this guide. Printed material; MS material

Thematic groups

 * Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections, British Library
 * British Library Arabic Manuscript Collection
 * British Library Armenian Manuscript Collection
 * British Library Coptic Language Collection
 * British Library Ethiopic Manuscript Collection
 * British Library Javanese Manuscript Collection
 * British Library Persian Manuscript Collection
 * British Library Sanskrit Manuscript Collection
 * British Library Syriac Manuscript Collection
 * India Office Records - needs work cleaning up Gandhi section!
 * India Office Private Papers - possibly notable?
 * Archaeological Survey of India photographs
 * Indonesia Merdeka Collection
 * Burney Collection of Parabaiks (Burmese, not the same Burney as below)
 * Phayre Collection (Burmese)
 * Mandalay Collection (Burmese)
 * Mackenzie Collection (drawings of India)


 * European Collections
 * British Library Leyden Medical Dissertations Collection
 * Czech and Slovak Samizdat Collection
 * Dutch Underground Press Collection
 * French Revolutionary Tracts Collection (aka Croker Collection)
 * German and Austrian Exile Periodicals Collection
 * Hannås Collection of Scandinavian Books
 * Kino-Pechat Collection (Soviet cinema leaflets)
 * László Waltherr Collection (Hungarian ephemera)
 * St George's German Church Collection
 * Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions (merged to Tauchnitz)
 * Tyrkova-Williams Collection (White Russian movement)
 * Arnold Collection of French Almanacs
 * Ashbee Library ("strong in continental literature with a notable accumulation of erotica") - Private Case?
 * Ashbee Cervantes Collection


 * American Collections
 * Canadian Colonial Copyright Collection (1895-1924) eBLJ
 * British Library Ediciones Vigía Collection (Cuba)
 * Domínguez Collection (Latin American pamphlets) BL
 * Rund Collection (underground literature)


 * British Library Sound Archive
 * Oral History of British Science
 * St Mary-le-Bow public debates
 * ...and various others; possibly not individually notable


 * English Literature & Drama
 * Ashley Library (English poetry)
 * Bagford Collection of Ballads (c17th)
 * Dexter Collection of Dickensiana (Dickens)
 * Lord Chamberlain's Plays
 * Luttrell Collection (Ballads)
 * Garrick Collection (Early English drama)


 * General collections (inc. individual libraries & archives)
 * Banks Library (Joseph Banks)
 * Bloomfield Collection (Robert Bloomfield)
 * Broxbourne Library (15th-16th century books)
 * Boase Collection (Catholic Apostolic Church)
 * Dyson Perrins Collection
 * Evelyn Library (John Evelyn)
 * Edwards Collection (part of Old Royal Library)
 * Grenville Library
 * Harold Pinter Archive
 * Hilton Collection of Chronograms
 * Huth Library
 * Ian Tyson Collection
 * Herbert Spencer Library
 * Hanover Military Library (staff college at Hanover, captured 1945)
 * John Osborne Collection
 * Kipling Collection
 * King's Library
 * Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection
 * Larkin Collection (Philip Larkin)
 * Lawrence Durrell Collection
 * Lumley Library (part of Old Royal Library)
 * Marie Stopes Collection
 * Old Royal Library
 * Shaw Collection (George Bernard Shaw)
 * Court Bookshop Collection (Children's chapbooks)
 * Cracherode Collection (fine editions)
 * John Morris Library (part of Old Royal)
 * Sloane Collection
 * Millar Collection (Miller: ODNB)


 * Newspapers, pamphlets, ephemera and grey literature:
 * Abbott Collection (Parliamentary papers 1731-1800)
 * Barry Ono Collection of Penny Dreadfuls
 * British Comics Collection
 * Burney Collection of Newspapers (17th-18th century newspapers)
 * Burney Collection of Theatrical Materials
 * Burney Collection of Playbills
 * Burney Collection of Book Sale Catalogues
 * Chadwick Tracts (early c19th politics)
 * Dicey Chapbook Collection
 * Dal Pozzo Prints Collection
 * Evanion Collection (Victorian ephemera)
 * Francis Place Collection (political ephemera 1770-1850)
 * Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts
 * Pre-Revolutionary Russian Bonds Collection
 * Ettridge Collection (trade literature - domestic appliances)
 * Lysons Collectanea (Cuttings & advertisments)
 * National Reports Collection
 * Northern Ireland Political Pamphlets Collection (and also a similarly titled but larger one at the Linen Hall)
 * Patent Office Library
 * Cox Collection of Art Catalogues
 * Cox's Fragmenta (playbills, cuttings, etc; 1788-1833)
 * Russell Collection of Playbills (1845-1908)
 * Sennett Collection (women's suffrage)
 * Yelverton Manuscripts
 * Macmillan Collection
 * Talbot Collection - Henry Fox-Talbot eBLJ


 * Maps:
 * Althorp Collection (England)
 * Bauza Collection (Spanish America)
 * Beudeker Collection (Benelux)
 * Crace Collection (London)
 * King's Topographical Collection\King's Maritime Collection (from the King's Library)
 * Royal United Services Institution Collection


 * Music
 * Hirsch Collection
 * John Julian Collection (Hymnals)
 * Roxburghe Ballads Collection - Roxburghe Ballads just deals with the 1847 publication
 * Royal Music Library
 * Royal Philharmonic Society Archive
 * Stefan Zweig Collection


 * Bibliography and bookbindings:
 * Ames Collection (pre-1749 titlepages)
 * Bagford Collection of Titlepages (1528-1715)
 * Davis Collection (bookbindings)
 * Franks Collection of Armorial Bookbindings eBLJ
 * Jaffray Collection (bookbinding)
 * Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers (bookbinding)
 * Cockerell Collection (Kelmscott Press)


 * British Library Philatelic Collections


 * Bailey Collection
 * Blackburn Collection
 * Bojanowicz Collection
 * Booth Papers
 * Burnett Collection
 * Campbell-Johnston Collection
 * Chismon Collection
 * Chinchen Collection
 * Contributions Agency Collection
 * Crawford Library
 * Crown Agents Archive
 * Crown Agents Collection
 * Davies Collection
 * Ewen Collection
 * Feldheim Collection
 * Fitzgerald Collection
 * Fletcher Collection
 * Foreign & Commonwealth Office
 * Foreign Office Collection
 * General Collection
 * Ginger Collection
 * H.M. Customs and Excise Collection
 * H.M. Stationery Office Collection
 * Harrison Collection
 * Harrison & Sons Collection
 * Hasluck Collection
 * Heys Collection
 * Imperial War Museum Stamp Collection
 * Inland Revenue Stamping Archive
 * Johnson Collection
 * Kaluski Collection
 * Kay Collection
 * Langmead Collection
 * Landmark Trust Lundy Archive
 * McInroy Collection
 * Model Collection
 * Monks Collection
 * Mosely Collection
 * Muraleetharan Papers
 * Murray Collection
 * Photograph Collection
 * Postal Authority Publicity Collection
 * R.P.S.L. Handouts Collection
 * Row Collection
 * Ryan Collection
 * Seymour Collection
 * Scott Collection
 * Shelley Collection
 * Sherborn Collection
 * Smith Collection
 * Supplementary Collection
 * Tapling Collection
 * Treasury Excise Correspondence
 * Turner Collection of Forgeries
 * Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps
 * Turner Collection of Railway Letter Stamps
 * U.P.U. Collection
 * Walker Collection
 * Williams Papers
 * Wilson-Todd Collection

General manuscript collections

 * Mostly historical. Additional MS is a large series of mostly miscellaneous items; it contains coherent groups, but isn't one itself. Possibly unsuitable for an article?


 * To expand from Named Manuscript Collections and Archives.


 * Additional Manuscripts - general series
 * Arundel Mansucripts
 * Ashley Manuscripts
 * Burney Collection of Manuscripts - "Collection" article refers to the newspapers, but there was also a MS collection
 * Cotton library
 * Egerton Collection
 * Guilford Collection
 * Hargrave manuscripts
 * Harleian Collection
 * Henry Davis Collection
 * "IO Isl MS" (India Office?)
 * King's Manuscripts
 * Lansdowne manuscripts
 * Oriental Manuscripts
 * Royal manuscripts, British Library
 * Sloane Manuscripts
 * Stowe manuscripts
 * Yates Thompson Manuscripts

Individual notable items

 * See also list at GLAM/BL/Royal


 * Americae, sive quartae orbis partis, 1562 -(map)
 * Henry VIII's prayer roll
 * Rous Roll
 * Bref récit et succincte narration (Jacques Cartier, three surviving copies)
 * Paston Letters (possibly misplaced - are these a named collection?)
 * Lyte Pedigree (Add MS 48343) - large vellum genealogical table showing the descent of James VI.