The Queen, Patron of both the National Literacy Trust and The Big Lunch initiative, joins volunteers at the British Library ...

Queen joins celebrations at British Library to mark National Year of Reading ...

The British Library has found censored details in the official account of Elizabeth I’s reign which suggest that King James I may have tried to have her assassinated and that he fabricated an account ...

The British Library in London is gearing up to bring 100 relics from the remarkable life of Agatha Christie to the public in ...

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 ...

In 2024, it is easy to imagine that all human knowledge is online forever – and can now be explained by an AI system; but this ignores the fact that an estimated 82% of websites are dormant, while ...

The British Library confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind a major outage that is still affecting services across several locations. Over 11 million visitors use the library's website annually, ...

Do you believe in magic? If not, “Harry Potter: A History of Magic,” the latest exhibition at the British Library in London, might very well make you a believer. Opened last month, the exhibition ...

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 ...

The British Library has told customers that their personal data may have been stolen during a recent ransomware attack that knocked the library’s systems and website offline for the past month. In a ...