The British Library launched a new website Friday where people from around the world can now admire some of its “greatest literary treasures.” The site is expected to become the biggest digital ...

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The British Library has signed a deal for Google to scan and digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books published between 1700 and 1870, and make them available free of charge online. The scanned ...

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More than 300 years of illustrations from the archives of the British Library have been uploaded to Flickr Commons, and now the organisation wants help sifting through them. "We're looking for new, ...

Home to more than 170 million items, including the Magna Carta, the British Library is one of the largest and most impressive ...

The UK’s national library is still suffering what it describes as a “major technology outage” due to a “cyber incident” it experienced over the weekend. The British Library explained on X (formerly ...

The British Library confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind a major outage that is still affecting services across several locations. Over 11 million visitors use the library's website annually, ...

A new book collects paintings and photos of some of the most familiar names in English literary history. By Erica Ackerberg Britain’s national library made the first major steps in its recovery ...

The British Library has confirmed that user data was exfiltrated and leaked by the ransomware cartel behind the October cyber attack on its systems, which remain offline weeks later, leaving the ...

Google Books partners with the British Library to digitize 250,000 books from between 1700 and 1870. Readers will soon be able to access all of the knowledge without the mustiness of old books. Amanda ...