The British Library has announced it will posthumously reinstate gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde’s reader pass after revoking it in 1895 due to his homosexuality.

One hundred and thirty years after they expelled him, the British Library is to symbolically reinstate Oscar Wilde’s readers' pass, allowing him entry to the library once again.

The British Library has lost over 42,000 books and manuscripts since 1997, data provided by the organisation has shown.

The UK's data protection overlord is not going to pursue any further investigation into the British Library's 2023 ransomware attack. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it doesn't think ...

British Library Publishing will publish a "luxurious" facsimile edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, first published in 1813, to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.

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Beowulf returns to his Heorot to find that Hrothgar, his adoptive father, is dead. Hrothgar's wife, Rheda, who had favoured her own son over the young Beowulf, is named his successor. Beowulf's ...

The British Library's vast collection of old books and documents need periodic conservation work, and they offer monthly tours of the workshops where the work takes place.

THE annual report of the British Library of Political and Economic Science, which is housed in the London School of Economics and Political Science, for the year ended July 31, 1944, includes a ...

Mitsui Fudosan, a Japan-based real estate company, through its UK subsidiary, has announced it will provide £1.1bn ($1.42bn) to the British Library extension project in London.

University of Toronto Press and the British Library today announced co-publication of a new art history book, The Art of the Scribe.

On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. Some 600GB of files, ...