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Free educational institution in the Lake District. Bibliographies and artefacts on natural history and local people including Beatrix Potter, Ruskin and the Lake poets.

Book collection dating from 1799 and music library. Events, membership and location map.

Independent subscription library with collections strong in nineteenth-century periodicals and material on South West England. Photographs, history and membership information.

Private lending library in London including archives relating to Highgate Village and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Description of collections and lecture programme.

History and photographs of this subscription library offering books, magazines and CDs. Programme of free events and children's page.

Scholarly subscription library in central London collecting principally in the humanities. History, collections, membership information and online catalogue.

A subscription library in Manchester featuring 19th century literature, local school exhibits, artist submissions, and gallery.

An exhaustive list of libraries, compiled by Sheila and Robert Harden with sites that make 'an effort to use the medium imaginatively' marked.

Research library in London, open to the public free of charge. Catalogues of books, archives and images.

History and description of the local history, maritime and geological collections of this English learned society.

A collection of materials concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labor movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century.