Senate House Library, part of the University of London, is one of the UK’s largest academic libraries for arts, humanities & social sciences with over 2 million books, 50 special collections and 1,800 archival collections.

The Library and its collections have been continuously developed since the 1870s. Highlights include the first folios of Shakespeare dated 1623, along with a wealth of medieval manuscripts, rare first editions and letters from some of the world’s greatest writers.