History is a complex web of triumph, tragedy, and change, but it isn’t immune to the threads of misinformation and misconceptions. There are “facts” that are often passed down through generations and ...

Inside the British Library, two years on from devastating cyber attack - Staff tell Athena Stavrou they’ve faced abuse ...

Around 300 workers at the British Library are in the middle of a two-week strike over pay. The workers, organised by the PCS ...

In a cold library, a 12th-century scribe carefully works on a parchment. His task is to reproduce an older text, a document ...

A leaflet aimed at tackling misinformation about immigration and asylum seekers can have a real "impact", a police and crime ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CLARIFICATION Oct. 22, 2025: Although widely attributed to Oscar Wilde, the quote that kicks off this story — “be yourself; everyone else is already taken” — may not, in fact, have ...

Archaeologists excavating near a fort in the Shimoga district of Karnataka state in southern India have unearthed more evidence to demonstrate just how powerful an 18th-century warrior king was.

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government and the union representing its striking public service workers announced Friday they would go into non-binding arbitration to try to find a solution to the ...

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writer Oscar Wilde is set to have his reader’s card reissued by the British Library, 130 years after the original was revoked over his conviction for “gross indecency”.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

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has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his original was revoked following his conviction for "gross indecency".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

This story is a collaboration between CBC News and the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF). A celebrated Vancouver researcher used fabricated data and hid evidence of infected wounds to falsely ...