British Library Online British Exhibition Site
Just like the Library of Congress Exhibition, the British Library has it’s own mini exhibition website which is about Britain. The main British Library covers most of the world. This isn’t on the main British Library website which is at www.bl.uk (one of the rare .uk Top Level domains!) but at www.collectbritain.co.uk and consists of over 90,000 images and sounds.
The picture shown is part of the a map. The Library has a pretty restrictive copyright policy so I’ve just shown a small taster of a map rather than a complete image.
The site itself comprises three sections- Collections, Exhibitions and Themed Tours. All are very well done and clearly laid out. The 19 Collections covering regional dialects, 1500 very old photographs of Victorian Britain, 1000 maps of London streets etc. The Five virtual exhibitions range from Mike Philips views on the British Caribbean collection, sacred manuscripts to Samuel Grimm’s sketchbooks about Northumberland. The themed tours use Flash to explain the story of the Trigonometrical Survey of England and Wales that became Ordnance Survey, 17th century gardening in Sayes Court at Deptford and the old East End.
Link to Collect Britain Website
Posted: August 15th, 2006 under Exhibition, UK, collections.
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