The city's best study spaces

From relaxing cafés to world-famous reading spots, there are plenty of inspirational places to escape the hustle and bustle of London life and get some serious studying done.

Round Reading Room - Maughan Library

Perhaps King’s most impressive study space, this dodecagonal reading room has been featured in a number of films, a music video and a novel. It’s a stunning space to work with a silent serious atmosphere for effective thinking.

British Library

Sign up to the British Library and be part of a national academic hub. Order your books online, and the librarians will have a neat pile for you to collect from your designated reading room. Find a seat next to professors and researchers from across the city, and settle in. If you need a break, take in one of the regularly changing exhibits or do some people watching in the outside courtyard.

Wellcome Collection Library

Located on level two of the Wellcome Collection, this contemporary library and comfortable workspace is free to use and open to anyone with an interest in the Wellcome collections. It’s got comfortable chairs, free WiFi, brilliant collections and is next to some incredible exhibits – what more could you want.

Victoria and Albert Museum National Art Library

The National Art Library is located in beautiful and historic reading rooms overlooking the John Madejski Garden at the V&A. It holds the UK’s most comprehensive public reference collection of literature on the fine and decorative arts. A grand study location that feels like stepping back in time.

Senate House Library

This towering icon in the heart of Bloomsbury is the central library for the University of London. With beautiful spaces to work (including a suite of comfy leather sofas on the 4th floor), working at Senate House is an opportunity to be part of the broader London university network.

Foyles Café

Where better to get stuck into a course book than in the flagship Foyles store café on Charing Cross Road? Offering excellent revision snacks and free WiFi, the store has over four miles of book shelves – the same as lining one bank of the Thames with books from Battersea Power Station to the Tower of London.

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