@britishlibraryBritish Library

Libraries are where it all begins 📚

card updated Oct 8, 2026 · 13 clips parsed · following 93 · 954,800 likes total

Engagement16.05%above average

Account summary

@britishlibrary has 40,200 followers and 194 videos. Across the 13 parsed clips the average is 305,277 views and 47,570 likes. Engagement to views is 16.05%, which is above average for TikTok. On the newer half of the feed the response is falling (−6.98 pp). Posts roughly 0.2 times a week. An average clip reaches 759% of the follower count.

Followers

40.2K

history is still being collected

Engagement

16.05%

−6.98 pp newer half

Average views

305.3K

median 3.1K

Likes per clip

47.6K

114 comments avg

Shares / saves

1.3K / 3.5K

1.13% of viewers save

Posting rate

0.2 / wk

reach 759% of followers

Latest clips

13 collected

A curator favourite for National Poetry Day: the opening stanzas of Em — @britishlibrary

9980:25A curator favourite for National Poetry Day: the opening stanzas of Emily Brontë’s ‘Honour’s Martyr’ 📖 #NationalPoetryDa1112212

Book before the film. Always 📚 We took a look at our 1811 first editio — @britishlibrary

1.6K0:12Book before the film. Always 📚 We took a look at our 1811 first edition of Sense and Sensibility ahead of the film hitti124335

‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.’ On this day in 1937, T — @britishlibrary

3.1K1:09‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.’ On this day in 1937, The Hobbit was published for the very first time, n2715525

The Wuthering Heights first published in 1847 isn’t quite the version — @britishlibrary

17.2K1:27The Wuthering Heights first published in 1847 isn’t quite the version we know today… Here’s a closer look at the first e1.5K1662143

It’s National Read a Book Day. We don’t make the rules 📚 #BritishLibra — @britishlibrary

2.2K0:15It’s National Read a Book Day. We don’t make the rules 📚 #BritishLibrary #bookish #booklover 139022

When inspiration strikes, you write on what you got... Odysseus's enco — @britishlibrary

1.7K1:22When inspiration strikes, you write on what you got... Odysseus's encounter with the Cyclops sits alongside scrap notes,145416

Medieval artists really said “Close enough.” #worldcatday #cat #mediev — @britishlibrary

3.8K0:10Medieval artists really said “Close enough.” #worldcatday #cat #medieval #medievalart #medievaltok 406101311

Happy Dragon Day - time to judge some medieval dragons (respectfully) — @britishlibrary

1.4KHappy Dragon Day - time to judge some medieval dragons (respectfully) #dragondayuk #dragons #medieval #medievalmanuscri1112105

The only acceptable follow-up question: which edition? 📚 The Odyssey h — @britishlibrary

11.9K0:13The only acceptable follow-up question: which edition? 📚 The Odyssey has been read, copied, translated and reimagined fo945184084

Maybe we’re reading too much into it but we feel like the collection i — @britishlibrary

1.2K0:08Maybe we’re reading too much into it but we feel like the collection is trying to spell something out… #itscominghome #w111143

Ophelia, our original sad girl 💔 #britishlibrary #shakespeare #ophelia — @britishlibrary

1.2M0:17Ophelia, our original sad girl 💔 #britishlibrary #shakespeare #ophelia #thelifeofashowgirl #taylorswift @Taylor Swift 157.2K5425.8K8.5K

Before Horrible Histories, there was Henry Tyrrell’s A History of Engl — @britishlibrary

723.6K0:24Before Horrible Histories, there was Henry Tyrrell’s A History of England for the Young, packed with portraits of Kings 75.4K4754.8K12.2K

First Medievalcore and now Fairycore, we see @chappell roan’s been ins — @britishlibrary

2MFirst Medievalcore and now Fairycore, we see @chappell roan’s been inspired by our collection again at the @GRAMMYs 💕🐴 #381.9K4036.2K24K

Engagement per clip

13 parsed clips · newest on the right · click a bar to open the clip peak: 19.4% ER

Feb 3Aug 8Oct 1

Date	Views	Likes	Comments	Shares	Saves	ER
Oct 1, 2026	998	111	2	2	12	11.52%
Sep 25, 2026	1,642	124	3	3	5	7.92%
Sep 21, 2026	3,063	271	5	5	25	9.17%
Sep 17, 2026	17,200	1,542	16	62	143	9.42%
Sep 6, 2026	2,201	139	0	2	2	6.41%
Aug 11, 2026	1,661	145	4	1	6	9.03%
Aug 8, 2026	3,777	406	10	13	11	11.36%
Jul 30, 2026	1,362	111	2	10	5	9.03%
Jul 23, 2026	11,900	945	18	40	84	8.43%
Jul 11, 2026	1,200	111	1	4	3	9.67%
Oct 3, 2025	1,200,000	157,200	542	5,784	8,534	13.63%
Jun 23, 2025	723,600	75,400	475	4,822	12,153	11.15%
Feb 3, 2025	2,000,000	381,900	403	6,203	24,038	19.43%