The British Library has acquired the private archive – containing notebooks, video and photographs – of Hunter Davies, the author of the only authorised biography of The Beatles to date. Davies spent ...

A visitor looks at themed products of "Lord of the Mysteries" during the inclusion event of ten online Chinese novels at the British Library in London, Britain, on Nov. 21, 2024. The British Library ...

A favourite item from the Balls collection which features in the exhibition is his photo album of an expedition to Persia in ...

For more than 100 years, the British Library kept thousands of its dirtiest books locked away from the rest of its collections. All volumes deemed to be in need of extra safeguarding so that members ...

Google plans to add an additional 250,000 titles to its Google Books online service by digitizing up to 40 million pages of content from the London-based British Library collection. Google's ...

In London today, the British Library and Google announced an agreement to make 250,000 books – 14 million pages -- available for free online. Published between 1700 and 1870, the titles include a ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving Hebrew manuscripts, a bible dating back more than 1,000 years, will soon be available online in a joint project with The British Library in London, the ...

Believe it or not, 2017 will mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (“Sorcerer’s Stone” in the US), the first volume in J.K. Rowling’s wildly popular ...

Google has made a deal with the British Library to make an extensive collection available online: The partnership covers non-copyrighted texts only, but will still make thousands of books available ...

The British Library has reinstated the suspended library card of revered Irish author Oscar Wilde, who died in 1900. Wilde’s ...

To stay at the forefront of global literary trends and incorporate more works from diverse languages, cultures, and eras, the storied British Museum has just announced a new partnership with China's ...