Workers on strike, who range from security guards, to receptionists and library assistants, are demanding a pay rise ...

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long ...

A recently discovered gold pendant appears to date to a "mysterious moment" in the early 8th Century, according to an expert.

Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...

The British Library has reinstated the suspended library card of revered Irish author Oscar Wilde, who died in 1900. Wilde’s access to the British Museum Reading Room was revoked in 1895 after the gay ...

The late Irish writer Oscar Wilde is set to have his reader’s card reissued by the British Library, 130 years after the original was revoked over his conviction for “gross indecency”. The British ...

A collection of gifts, including letters, books and presentations from foreign heads of state, that former taoiseach Albert Reynolds received during his political career, will be handed over to the ...

The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his original was revoked following his conviction for "gross indecency". The ...

PM: There's a great deal of conversation about how highbrow texts — literary or otherwise — shape our understanding of power.

David Rubenstein explained the origin of the Library of Congress and its expansion over time. How did the idea for the Library of Congress come about? Explain how it was established as David ...