The scanning race has started: Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement today to scan 25 million pages from the British Library’s collection that will eventually be made available on its MSN Book Search ...

Books on display include The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, written by Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard. The ...

Today, William Shakespeare is high culture—but back in the Bard’s day, his work was either pop fiction or history in a hurry; disposable entertainment for the groundling masses. Certainly not the sort ...

Diane Watt has received funding from the AHRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. The British Library’s breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, brings to life the ...

A new book collects paintings and photos of some of the most familiar names in English literary history. Beatrix Potter painted by Delmar Banner, 1938.Credit...Delmar Banner/National Portrait Gallery ...

Join our Learning team for a visit to The British Library and explore the building through quick drawing exercises. Looking at scale models of the building and drawing in the wider environment to ...