British Library Online

[Gordon]

Came across this mentioned in the Guardian so I registered and had a browse.

https://www.bl.uk/help/how-to-get-a-reader-pass

If you do register there is a bit that says if you turn up at one of their reading rooms bring some ID - but for those of us nowhere near Yorkshire or London the reader pass lets you look at all the online stuff: I just spent half an hour looking at Charles Dickens hand-written drafts for Nicholas Nickleby.

If you've got time on your hands there is a lot of interesting stuff here.

[jeremyp]

Came across this mentioned in the Guardian so I registered and had a browse.

https://www.bl.uk/help/how-to-get-a-reader-pass

If you do register there is a bit that says if you turn up at one of their reading rooms bring some ID - but for those of us nowhere near Yorkshire or London the reader pass lets you look at all the online stuff: I just spent half an hour looking at Charles Dickens hand-written drafts for Nicholas Nickleby.

If you've got time on your hands there is a lot of interesting stuff here.

I've done some work for British Library. I had to spend some time at their Yorkshire facility, which is mostly a bunch of enormous warehouses containing every imaginable periodical. If you have a site pass (not a reader's pass) you can wander through the whole thing and even browse the contents, although that's probably strongly discouraged.