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 ...

My teacher wanted us to see our great institutions. We went to the museum to see the Greek collections and she said, ‘While you are here, you must see the Reading Room, the round Reading Room.’ 1 ...

Several stories below the British Library’s Magna Carta room, alongside a rumbling line of the London Underground, is a brightly lit labyrinth of rare and historic items. Past a series of ...

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.