The British Library is located in London and West Yorkshire. It is one of the largest libraries in the world with a long history spanning over 250 years. It serves the world with top class access to information for the academic, commercial, research and scientific communities.
Famous literary figures such as Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Charles Dickens, George Bernard Shaw, and Virginia Woolf were all frequent visitors to the library. The huge collections span more than 3,000 years of human history and civilization, with more than 150 million pieces in its collections, which include from the late Chinese oracle bones, the Shang Dynasty to today's newspapers, the earliest known printed book "Diamond Sutra", to the popular "Harry Potter" series.