After the successful digital makeover to the Mewar Ramayana, the British Library plans to apply that treatment to other historical documents. It took three years for the British Library to create the ...

Today the struggles of history are for the most part left to specialists, but the gorgeous propaganda machine is accessible to all in jewel-like images. Some of the illustrations are more like ...

The British Library has joined hands with the National Library Board in Singapore with the aim of digitizing an extensive collection of materials related to the island state. This includes Malay ...

Valued at $21 million, the Honresfield Library includes rare material from Jane Austen, Walter Scott, the Brontë sisters. A 1841 birthday gift for Anne Brontë with a written message from her sister ...

Whoever said you can’t judge a book by its cover never had the experience of beholding a truly illuminated manuscript, adorned with (no small amount) of solid gold. A new exhibition at the British ...

Who says Mozart’s original manuscripts are only for scholars of classical music to leaf through and relish? The British Library is offering some of the composer’s most famous works to Internet users ...

The project called “Two Centuries of Indian Print” will scan books in 22 languages, dating from between 1714 and 1914. It is part of the celebrations for the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, announced ...

That dynasty is celebrated in this treasure trove of an exhibition, featuring illustrated manuscripts from the three-plus centuries– 1526-1858 – of the Mughal emperors’ reign. Here are leaves from ...

Who says Mozart’s original manuscripts are only for scholars of classical music to leaf through and relish? The British Library is offering some of the composer’s most famous works to Internet users ...

The British Library announced yesterday that it has uploaded more than one million public domain photos from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries to Flickr. The move comes as part of an ambitious ...

An Iranian-born scholar faces jail time for vandalizing scores of antique manuscripts relating to European involvement with the Middle East in the collections of the British Library and the University ...