Whether you're interested in art, photography, drama, literature, film or design, we bring the best of UK Culture to you.
Materials in our library
Contemporary UK websites
Periodicals
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From contemporary and innovation to classical, the library brings you reliable, up-to-date information about the most powerful and influential areas within the arts in the UK today:
- architecture
- art and design
- creative industries
- current affairs and society
- fashion, lifestyle, dieting, food&drink
- classic and contemporary literature
- film, theatre and dance
- music
- popular culture
- sport
- television
- travels
We offer you materials on different support: books, DVDs, CDs, CD-ROMs, online electronic resources. Please check our online catalogue and the virtual library for for details on the titles you are interested in.
LearnEnglish Culture: Challenge your perceptions about life in the UK
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-culture-homepage.htm
- each month, LearnEnglish Culture looks in depth at different features of the culture of the United Kingdom
Contemporary writers in the UK
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/
- up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers - biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs
Cubed
http://www.britishcouncil.org/science-cubed.htm
- keep up-to-date with the latest products and ideas that will change our world
British Council Arts
http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts.htm
- read about UK arts scene
Encompassculture
http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-literature-encompassculture.htm
- talk about books with readers from around the world
Untold London
http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/
- site giving information on where to find culturally diverse history in London. Highlights the museums and community groups that bring that history to life. Browse collections, read news and visit events that explore multicultural London
Click2Britain
http://www.click2britain.com/
- search engine concentrating on websites from the UK and Ireland
Library members benefit from free Internet access on the computers in our centre, during the opening hours.
Read the latest news and views in UK!
Our library's periodicals collection includes news, professional and leisure magazines. Magazines can be borrowed for one week.
You can also check our virtual library for up-to-date information on British culture.
Do you feel the need to take a break and have fun? The library offers you:
- books on dieting, design, fashion, food and drink, photography, health, family and lifestyle, house and garden, travel and holiday, fiction
- periodicals (Cosmopolitan, House Beautiful, PC Gamer, Woman & Home, Vogue etc.)
- films, documentaries and music on DVD
For the complete list please consult our online catalogue.
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Help us enrich our collections! We invite you to send us suggestions for new titles (books, DVDs, CD-ROMs) to be added to the library collections.
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