LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The British Library is re-housing part of its collection in a new facility that will hand responsibility for the storage and retrieval of seven million items to a robotic ...
LONDON, UK: Google plans to digitise a quarter of a million books from the British Library's collections covering a period from the French Revolution to the end of slavery as part of its ambitious ...
The British Library said they hoped to honour Wilde’s memory and ‘acknowledge the injustices and immense suffering he faced’ ...
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British Library reissues Oscar Wilde’s pass 130 years after it was revoked over gay conviction
Wilde was convicted in England of “gross indecency” under the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which criminalised same-sex relationships.
The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of gross indecency. On Thursday, the British Library will hand over a symbolic new card to his grandson.
New "little libraries" have opened as part of Penguin Books' 90th birthday celebrations. More than 2,000 towns and villages ...
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 ...
When Oscar Wilde was jailed for "gross indecency," a charge historically used to criminalize gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 years later, the British Library has re-issued it.
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