Monday - Friday, 10:00 - 17:00
Bishopsgate Institute
230 Bishopsgate
London
EC2M 4QH
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The Bishopsgate Institute is a London-based cultural institute founded in 1895, which provides an online database of images portraying the history of London’s most dynamic areas. It offers a cultural events programme, courses for adults, historic library and archive collections and community programme.
Bishopsgate Library holds collections relating to the social and cultural history of London. It also holds a collection of around 50,000 books, pamphlets, illustrations, photographs and maps covering the social and cultural history of London, with particular reference to Bishopsgate and Spitalfields. The London Collection also holds an extensive collection of press cuttings concerning the area around the Institute dating from 1740 and one of the country's finest collections of London guidebooks and trade directories.
There are no membership requirements. Everyone is welcome.
They are a reference library only – books and other materials may only be consulted on site.