Novelist Charlotte Mendelson explores an institution that holds the history of humanity — and, on any given day, a curious cross-section of the capital itself ...

The 1660 Klencke Atlas is among the world’s biggest books, measuring nearly six feet by seven and a half feet when open. So when the British Library digitized the towering tome, it required several ...

Google has signed a deal with the British Library to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the 18th and 19th centuries The company has already partnered with more than 40 libraries as part of ...

The Independent Bookshop Top 20 has seen a new number one this week as the British Library’s latest instalment in their Tales of the Weird series has flown to the top spot, according to the latest ...

Few of us are, and it made me wonder about the path ahead for national libraries. These great institutions date back to the ancient world — the first repositories of written material are in ...

Seen from within its courtyard off busy Euston Road in London, the British Library is meant to look like a stately ocean liner pulling out to sea against the gables, turrets, and clock tower of St.

Jan. 29 (UPI) --A book found in a hallway outside of a British library turned to have been due back at the facility 49 years and six months earlier. The Torrington Library in Devon, England, said on ...

The widespread indifference to the British Library’s crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity, says Hetan Shah The head ...

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen Meilan Solly - Senior Associate ...