There are several in the UK: the British Library, National Libraries of Wales, Scotland, and TCD, and Oxford and Cambridge. The recent-ish ransomware hacking incident at the BL has left many scholars without access to key resources, since they held a huge amount of digitised books and manuscripts, and ran for instance the Short Title Catalogue. I for one am still waiting for their stuff to come back online so I can get on with my work. So really another story confirming the OP’s note to save local resources (mind you, many BL resources can’t actually be saved in any way, and their online delivery is the only way to access e.g. manuscripts).
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