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One of the leading UK collections of archives, manuscripts and rare books on Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

We make available over 3 kilometres of archives, 60,000 rare books, and manuscripts in over 140 languages to students and researchers globally.

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Opening SOAS Library's extraordinary collections to users around the world for learning, teaching and research.

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