In ancient days, libraries were centers of learning and collaboration, places where knowledge could be shared and spread. Banquets, conferences and important events were held in these monuments to ...

Rising rents charged by Southwark Council are threatening the community resource The Feminist Library. Unless the library is able to find a massive chunk of money to meet the non-negotiable costs of ...

LONDON — It’s billed as the world’s largest library of film-related books, comprising some 3,000 titles. Given that so many of them deal with American films and that Westerns constitute the single ...

An exhibition of maps opened at the British Library in London on Saturday, exploring how maps became increasingly present in the 20th century. The exhibition, "Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the ...

The British Library in London is set to showcase a number of Leonardo da Vinci's most important notebooks, all written in his famous “mirror-writing.” The "Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion" exhibit ...

The Klencke Atlas is the world's largest book and it's soon to go on public display for the first time in 350 years. Host Liane Hansen speaks with the curator of Antiquarian Mapping at the British ...

The London Public Library is in a race against time to digitally save more than a century's worth of local history from a vinegary grave. "The clock is ticking. Inevitably, this will all be an ...