The three-year collaboration includes a programme for Yuewen writers to see some of the iconic items in the British Library's collection, attend creative workshops, and engage in co-creation digital ...

The British Library has some valuable charges to keep safe — Shakespeare’s First Folio, two copies of the Magna Carta and manuscripts by Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë. Now those treasures have ...

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, including the personal data of Library users and ...

After 130 years, the British Library will symbolically reinstate the reader pass that belonged to the renowned poet and writer Oscar Wilde. The physical pass will be officially handed over to Wilde’s ...

Librarians are the patron saints of hushed tones. But on a grey December morning in King’s Cross, the striking staff of the British Library are making a racket. Outside the entrance to the red brick ...

Workers at the British Library are to strike in a dispute over pay. The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said more than 300 of its members at the site in London will walk out from October 27 ...

British Library employees are being balloted for a month-long’s industrial action over pay negotiations and a restructure of senior management. Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union released a ...

Earlier this month, Open Culture pointed to a big move from the British Library: the library is putting a million images into the public domain. An image by Eliza F. Manning from “The Coming of Father ...

When Oscar Wilde was jailed for "gross indecency," a charge historically used to criminalize gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 years later, the British Library has re-issued it. Sponsor ...

Britain's biggest library is in for a huge boost as a £1.1billion extension is to go ahead. The British Library in the shadow of St. Pancras station in central London holds more than 170million items, ...

Exclusive: Collection includes workbooks and index cards, and papers that show his research for bestseller Akenfield ...