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Humanities

Most of our collection of post-1850 printed books and journals can be accessed in the Humanities Reading Rooms on Floors 1 and 2 in St Pancras, London.

Open shelves

The only materials available on open shelves in the Humanities Reading Rooms are our reference collection, which include: 

  • dictionaries 

  • encyclopedias 

  • national bibliographies, and similar resources. 

In Humanities 1 you will find major humanities subjects such as: 

  • literature 

  • the arts 

  • religious studies 

  • history.  

This includes guides to key critical works in each subject field, subject-specific encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, and guides to major periodicals. There are also guides to literature in a range of languages other than English. 

In Humanities 2 you will find guides to: 

  • recorded sound 

  • journals for library and information science 

  • periodical indexes.