The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from many countries, in many languages and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library’s collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 2000 BC. British Library is one of the two largest libraries in the world, the other being the Library of Congress of the United States.
The National Library receives a copy of every book published in the UK and Ireland meaning if you were to view 5 items each day, it would take over 80,000 years to view the entire collection (and that’s if they left their collection as it is!). You can even view the adored Treasures Gallery which includes a range of wonderful artifacts gathered from over the years — Oh and it’s free!