A vast £1.1 billion extension of the British Library is to go ahead after the project secured the backing of Japanese ...

When Oscar Wilde was jailed for "gross indecency," a charge historically used to criminalize gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 years later, the British Library has re-issued it.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

Libraries across Europe appear to be facing attacks from cybercriminals. At Britain’s national library, an “incident” is sending scholars back to an analog age. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London ...

The British Library has been hit by a major IT outage affecting its website and many of its services following a "cyber incident" that impacted its systems on Saturday, October 28. The ongoing outage ...

It has been more than three months since the British Library’s staff and users awoke to the news that its computer systems had been hijacked. After the attack on 28 October, anything that used the ...

Over 300 workers at the British Library in St Pancras, London are engaged in a two-week strike until November 9 in pursuit of a wage increase. The strikers are library assistants, conservation and ...

From the must-see locations to the most frequently asked questions, our guide has all you need to plan your next visit. By Susanne Fowler The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of ...

The British Library has had the book thrown at it after a worker complained that it was too noisy. Lidia Kogut has been awarded £7,500 by an employment tribunal because she wasn’t given a quiet place ...