12 best libraries in London

Address: The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
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4. National Poetry Library

Five floors up in the Royal Festival Hall, you’ll find a warm yellow glow radiating from the doors of the National Poetry Library. Opened in 1953 by TS Eliot and Herbert Read, it now houses more than 200,000 works of modern British poetry. This is a cosy space in which emerging poets can seek advice, thumb through battered copies of Larkin, Hughes and Plath, or listen…