— Listen to regional accents and dialects of the UK on the British Library's ' Sounds Familiar ' website

The British Library's Incunabula Short Title Catalogue now records over 29, 000 titles, of which around 27, 400 are incunabula editions ( not all unique works ).

The British Library's Stein collection of Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets, and documents in Khotanese, Uyghur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic is the result of his travels through central Asia during the 1920s and 1930s.

* Scott's original expedition diaries Read digital copies online using the British Library's Turning the Pages system.

— Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's ' Sounds Familiar ' website

* Sounds Familiar? Listen to examples of London and other regional accents and dialects of the UK on the British Library's ' Sounds Familiar ' website

* Quartos — high resolution scans of the British Library's 93 copies of Shakespeare plays printed in quarto before 1642

* Food Stories – Explore a century of revolutionary change in UK food culture on the British Library's Food Stories website

* Turn the pages of the British Library's Mercator Atlas of Europe ( c. 1570 )

The project was supported by the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme.

The British Library's Endangered Archives Programme funded a project to take digital images of unique literature in the collection, however, it is not clear where the images are stored today.

* Sounds Familiar ?– Listen to examples of Geordie and other regional accents and dialects of the UK on the British Library's ' Sounds Familiar ' website

Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's ' Sounds Familiar ' website

* Turning the Pages Leaf through the Lindisfarne Gospels online using the British Library's Turning the Pages software ( requires Shockwave plugin )

The British Library's Stefan Zweig Collection was donated to the library by his heirs in May 1986.

Other movies with key scenes in the Reading Room include Night of the Demon ( 1957 ) and in the 2001 Japanese anime OVA Read or Die, the Reading Room is used as the secret entrance to the British Library's fictional " Special Operations Division ".

* Oriental and India Office Collections page on the British Library's website

* The British Library's collections

* The British Library's Kammer & Reinhardt gramophone from the 1890s

— Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's ' Sounds Familiar ' website

– Listen to regional accents and dialects of the UK on the British Library's ' Sounds Familiar ' website

Why I Am Not a Christian is a 1927 essay by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell hailed by The Independent as " devastating in its use of cold logic ", and listed in the New York Public Library's list of the most influential books of the 20th century.

Two of the Library's treasures, the Kedermister Gospels ( an 11th century illuminated manuscript ) and the Pharmacopolium or a booke of Medicine ( a manuscript herbal of 1630 ) are on permanent deposit in the British Library.

QAD ( Ord ) was based at Royal Arsenal West together with a Ministry of Defence Publications section and part of the British Library's secure storage accommodation.

An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.

The Outline of English Phonetics which followed in 1918 is the first truly comprehensive description of British Received Pronunciation, and indeed the first such description of the standard pronunciation of any language.

Alexander Dane is an accomplished British actor whose name — or stage name ?-- reflects his experience in Shakespearean theatre (" the melancholy Dane " is a well-known description of Hamlet ).

The principles of imperialism are often deeply connected to the policies and practices of British Imperialism " during the last generation, and proceeds rather by diagnosis than by historical description.

In 1891 the British Royal Society recognized Heaviside's contributions to the mathematical description of electromagnetic phenomena by naming him a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the following year devoting more than fifty pages of the Philosophical Transactions of the Society to his vector methods and electromagnetic theory.

* Popular British Ornithology ; containing a familiar and technical description of the Birds of the British Isles ( 1849 ).

A British officer who observed one of these fortifications around the time of the 1898 Hut Tax war ended his description of it thus:

The convention is named for Sam Stayman, who wrote the first published description in 1945, but its inventors were two other players: the British expert Jack Marx in 1939, who published it only in 1946, and Stayman's regular partner George Rapée in 1945.

Capra's description: " Hitler occupies Denmark and Norway, outflanks Maginot Line, drives British Army into North Sea, forces surrender of France.

Historically part of the parish of St Margaret in the county of Middlesex, the name Westminster was the ancient description for the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or monastery church, that gave the area its name – which has been the seat of the government of England ( and later the British government ) for almost a thousand years.

The book also contains a secondhand description of the killing of German prisoners of war by British troops ; although Graves had not witnessed any incidents himself and knew of no large-scale massacres, he had been told about a number of incidents in which prisoners had been killed individually or in small groups ; consequently he was prepared to believe that a proportion of Germans who surrendered never made it to prisoner-of-war camps.

Writer Howard, an agent selling a distressed cargo of slaves from a shipwreck in Tortola in 1803 wrote that " Tortola is well nigh the most miserable, worst-inhabited spot in all the British possessions ... this unhealthy part of the globe appears overstocked with each description of people except honest ones.

Legend places Caratacus ' last stand at British Camp in the Malvern Hills, but the description of Tacitus makes this unlikely:

* Waite, Arthur Edward ( 1916 – 1918 ) Complete Rosicrucian Initiations of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross ; reprinted in 2005 ISBN 978-0-9735931-7-4 and 2007 ISBN 978-0-9783883-4-8 by Ishtar Publishing, Burnaby, British Columbia ; renamed in 2008 Rosicrucian Rites and Ceremonies of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross by Founder of the Holy Order of the Golden Dawn Arthur Edward Waite ISBN 978-0-9783883-4-8 book description from Ishtar Publishing

As the " editor " of the papers, Fraser produced a series of historical novels that give a largely picaresque ( or arguably cynical ) description of British and American history during the 19th century.

* British Go Association description of how time is called.

In March 1946, British Labour Party MP Richard Crossman gave the following description of activity at the hotel: " private detectives, Zionist agents, Arab sheiks, special correspondents, and the rest, all sitting around about discreetly overhearing each other.

:* A detailed map of the realm engraved on a silver table, to be presented to the King ( inspired by a set of table-maps once possessed by the Emperor Charlemagne ), accompanied by a written description, the Liber de topographia Britanniae, and a key to identifying the British place-names given in ancient texts.

It includes a geographical description of the British Isles and focuses on the history of the Anglo-Saxon Church from St. Augustine's 597 mission though his preamble covers earlier ages.

The law was independently discovered by British natural philosopher John Dalton by 1801, although Dalton's description was less thorough than Gay-Lussac's.

Armstrong saw in it a description of national characteristics of contemporary descendants of Jacob, and deduced that the United States, the British Commonwealth and several countries situated in northwestern Europe were actually the Lost Tribes of Israel.

On the third anniversary of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, in a message ghost written by Lester B. Pearson, serving at the Canadian legation in Washington, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt enthused that the BCATP had transformed Canada into the " aerodrome of democracy ", a play on his earlier description of the United States as " the Arsenal of Democracy.

Griffith also supported movements seeking national independence from the British Empire in Egypt and India and wrote a highly critical description of the British government action at Matabele.