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

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 ...

The Independent Bookshop Top 20 has seen a new number one this week as the British Library’s latest instalment in their Tales ...

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 ...

When Oscar Wilde was jailed for "gross indecency," a charge historically used to criminalize gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 years later, the British Library has re-issued it.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

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 ...

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.

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 ...