Digital galleries

Explore images of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays held in the Durning-Lawrence Library.

View Shakespeare’s First Folio, 1623: The Durning- Lawrence Library Copy

Explore images of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays held in the Sterling Library.

View Shakespeare’s First Folio, 1623: The Sterling Library Copy

To mark Senate House Library’s and University College London’s conference on the significance of cats in culture and society, we present cats from across the Library’s collections from Horace Walpole's tragic Selima to Puss-in-Boots in pantomime. The items show the range and variety of felines that stalk the stacks.

• View The Cat's Pyjamas digital collection.

A gallery with a selection of items from Senate House Library's collection to inspire study and research into the field of environmental humanities.

• View the Environmental Humanities digital collection

Browse a series of highlights from the College Hall Archive on display in the Membership Hall of Senate House Library for Women's History Month 2023.

• View the College Hall archive digital collection

Alongside the audio installation A Thousand Words for Weather, the exhibition 'Weather Notes' of historical items chosen from Senate House Library’s collections offers a glimpse into different perceptions, recordings, and observations regarding the weather over the past 500 years.

• View the Thousand Words for Weather digital collection

Discover Senate House Library's holdings on the history of magic from the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature.

• View the Magic digital collection

Explore the numerous artefacts collected by Senate House Library to support teaching, to record the history of the University of London, to honour their original owners or simply as curiosities. 

• View this digital collection