The British Library Reading Room under construction, London, April 1855. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) It had been open again for only a fortnight when I entered 167 ...

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 ...

Now — 130 years on — the British Library has announced it will symbolically reinstate Wilde's Reader Pass, handing it to ...

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 ...

The Richelieu Reading Room of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, or French National Library, in Paris, isn’t open to the public. But persistence can get you in.

The British Museum’s vast and imposing Round Reading Room has reopened this week to all visitors after being closed for the past 11 years. Designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857, the ...

The British Museum’s domed reading room will be open for guided tours from 23 July, and has opened to the general public. Some of history’s greatest thinkers choose this as their workspace.

The Center for British & Irish Studies Room (CBIS Room) is located on the fifth floor of Norlin Library (room M549). Its primary purpose is to host University-sponsored academic programs and events ...

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 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 ...

Wilde, who had first obtained his card in 1879, had it formally cancelled on June 15, 1895 following one of the most infamous ...