The 1660 Klencke Atlas is among the world’s biggest books, measuring nearly six feet by seven and a half feet when open. So when the British Library digitized the towering tome, it required several ...

The British Library has found censored details in the official account of Elizabeth I’s reign which suggest that King James I may have tried to have her assassinated and that he fabricated an account ...

On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. Some 600GB of files, including the personal data of Library users and ...

The British Library has told customers that their personal data may have been stolen during a recent ransomware attack that knocked the library’s systems and website offline for the past month. In a ...

In 2024, it is easy to imagine that all human knowledge is online forever – and can now be explained by an AI system; but this ignores the fact that an estimated 82% of websites are dormant, while ...

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, ...

From the must-see locations to the most frequently asked questions, our guide has all you need to plan your next visit. By Susanne Fowler The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of ...

One of the world’s largest libraries has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack on October 28, and that it will take weeks or possibly months to fully recover. The British Library notified the ...

The British Library has been hit by a major IT outage affecting its website and many of its services following a "cyber incident" that impacted its systems on Saturday, October 28. The ongoing outage ...

A Nazi radio archive with more than 4,000 discs that have never been played, a collection of Beijing street sounds from the 90s and the voice of Florence Nightingale are among the British Library's ...