Reading rooms to close early on Friday 21 July

On Friday 21 July our document reading room and map and large document reading room will close an hour earlier than normal at 16:00.

Document ordering will close at 14:30 and all documents will need to be returned by 15:50. We will not be able to issue any readers’ tickets after 16:00, and our Live Chat service will operate with reduced capacity from 16:00.

Our open reading room, library, exhibition and other spaces will be open until 17:00 as usual, and other online services will be unaffected.