We’re delighted to invite our members to drop-in to view the New Room when it opens in June. The New Room will be a permanent, dedicated space for learning and participation events with both members and non-members, allowing us to make our extensive collection and resources available more widely and increase our impact as a charity.

Drop-in times:

4 June 10-12pm

5 June 3-5pm

9 June 10-12pm

12 June 12-2pm

We hope to see as many of you there as possible!  

The European Review of Books is a cultural and literary magazine that features a wide range of content, including essays, fiction, poetry, book reviews, travelogues, parodies, and experimental writing, often in multiple languages. It was founded in the Netherlands by a collective of journalists and researchers and launched its first issue in June 2022. The magazine aims to explore Europe beyond conventional boundaries, presenting a multifaceted view of the continent’s cultural, political, and intellectual 

This e-Resource is available on Catalyst and the next edition of the magazine will be available in the Reading Room once published.

We're excited to announce LL185, our summer season of events celebrating 185 years of The London Library as the home of inspiration. We'll be delving into our history, collection and community and looking to the future, with talks, workshops and a very special theatrical run of a new adaptation of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

See What's On

Final update: April 2026

Thanks to the kind support of Library members, we have now reached our target for the Hidden Treasures Library Fund appeal, raising £112,989. 

Thank you to everyone who has contributed. We have already begun recruitment and expect to have our Special Collections Curator in place in the next few months. We will keep members up to date as the Curator starts to research and share the Special Collections. 

We are very excited to see what our new Special Collections Curator will discover amongst these rare and precious objects, which deserve to be seen and celebrated.

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