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. Known at the time as the ...

In British Library Reading Rooms, Flirting and Even Giggling Researchers say younger students’ access to the library’s main reading room is creating chaos, claiming that they are there to chat ...

At the back of the reading room, another researcher was looking for “ The Science of Music in Britain,” a reference work by Jamie C. Kassler, an Australian music scholar, which a friend had ...

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. Known at the time as the ...

British Library Expanding Its Endangered Archives Online The library has now made available online four million digital images from its collection of rare manuscripts, newspapers and other materials.