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British Library

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Robin Lane Fox
    ‘Unearthed’ at the British Library is unhistorical — but not uninteresting

    This celebration of gardening in the UK is an entertaining but puzzlingly limited survey that omits more than it includes

    A man in a cap and glasses looks at a large, very old hardback book, open in the middle to show a lavishly coloured illustration of a sunflower, alongside some script in Latin
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    British Library to expand after £1.1bn investment from Mitsui Fudosan

    Project will double exhibition gallery space and create new offices

    A computer-generated image of the planned central courtyard of the British Library extension
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Nilanjana Roy
    The British Library cyber breach was an attack on the world’s knowledge

    The impact from last year’s ransomware incident has spread to scholars, readers and writers across the globe

    A glass-fronted tower of bookshelves in which can be glimpsed the reflections of people sitting reading at desks
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    InterviewThe CEO
    How the British Library’s Roly Keating managed a major cyber attack

    The former BBC executive made it his mission to bring the nation’s book collection online — then disaster struck

    Roly Keating stands in front of a black metal door with ‘The King’s Librarary’ embossed on it and you can see shelves of books through the glass panels around the door
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    British Library to burn through reserves to recover from cyber attack

    London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services

    Exterior view of the British Library
  • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
    Cyber Security
    Cyber attack on British Library raises concerns over lack of UK resilience

    Hackers open week-long auction of stolen data on dark web after breach in October

    A gateway entrance outside the British Library in London
  • Friday, 24 April, 2020
    FT Magazine
    An extinct bird, Nazi speeches: the race to save historic recordings

    The most fragile sound archives in the British Library are under threat. Can they be rescued?

  • Tuesday, 14 April, 2020
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Time travel: virtual 3D models reveal the history of map-making

    The British Library has digitised its collection of historic globes, some of which have never been photographed before

    A pocket terrestrial globe, made by Joseph Moxon in 1679
  • Friday, 21 September, 2018
    Life & Arts
    ‘My granddaughter suddenly thinks I’m hip’: why library music is back in demand

    Thanks to sampling by rap stars, two veteran composers now have enough of a following that they are recording again

    The KPM All Stars, an ensemble of session musicians who recorded library music for TV, film or commercial use
  • Friday, 21 September, 2018
    ObituaryDesign
    MJ Long, architect, 1939-2018

    The brains behind the British Library

    In her practice, the architect MJ Long moved from 'the sublime to the gorblimey'
  • Tuesday, 11 April, 2017
    World
    British Library plans a £500m extension

    Popularity generates need for extra space next to headquarters at St Pancras in London

    Aerial shot of the British Library at St Pancras. Photo credit: Tony Antoniou. - See more at: http://www.bl.uk/press/search?q=st%20pancras&content_type=image&inViewer=imgID0BC445A1-6DF4-4A27-B275-C93EE091CABB#sthash.grW1SGqY.dpuf
  • Friday, 10 June, 2016
    Life & Arts
    A celebration of punk at the British Library

    A clever show marking 40 years since the genre was born reminds us what all the fuss was about

    UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01:  ROXY CLUB  Photo of SEX PISTOLS and Johnny ROTTEN and Mark PERRY and PUNKS, Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) (holding can of beer) with Mark Perry (of Sniffin' Glue fanzine). Nick Kent in background  (Photo by Erica Echenberg/Redferns)
  • Friday, 1 April, 2016
    FT Magazine
    British Museum Reading Room, by Helen Simpson

    ‘Strange to think that such a soporific space should be where communism was dreamt up: Marx was a regular for decades’

    The Reading Room of the British Museum
  • Friday, 20 November, 2015
    Life & Arts
    Baaba Maal: ‘It all started by the river’

    The Senegalese singer and activist attends an exhibition exploring the history of west African literature and music

    Baaba Maal
  • Friday, 16 October, 2015
    Life & Arts
    Ai exhibition strikes note of disharmony on eve of Xi visit

    Possible embarrassment unlikely to take gloss off flurry of Sino-British cultural exchanges

    The Royal Academy's north-facing entrance, Burlington Gardens
  • Monday, 12 October, 2015
    The Art of Persuasion
    Hamlet, Danger Mouse and enjoying free speech

    Listing qualities has a striking effect but note too that persuasiveness depends on a right to speak

    EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 25: English writer Julian Barnes attends a photocall at Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 25, 2015 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 23 September, 2015
    News in-depthFT Data
    FT digital archives open to academic research
  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2015
    Life & Arts
    An art show a day keeps the boredom away

    One man’s challenge: to visit and write about a London art show every day throughout August

    Peter Kennard’s ‘Crushed Missile’ (1980), on show at the Imperial War Museum, London
  • Sunday, 29 June, 2014
    UK economy
    UK business founders lament lack of support
    London's Silicon Roundabout
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2014
    The World blogWorld
    Columbia’s (sic) public relations problem
  • Sunday, 27 April, 2014
    Luxury goods
    Read all about it – three centuries of newspapers on show
    British Library
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2014
    ReviewUK economy
    BBC expands arts coverage with links to cultural organisations
    LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 12:  An employee walks inside BBC headquarters at New Broadcasting House on November 12, 2012 in London, England. Tim Davie has been appointed the acting Director General of the BBC following the resignation of George Entwistle after the broadcasting of an episode of the current affairs programme 'Newsnight' on child abuse allegations which contained errors.  (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2014
    Technology sector
    Libraries lend themselves to new business creation
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2014
    Arts
    Comics to go on show at British Library
    Tales of Terror, by Matthew Lewis, part of the British Library's Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition, one of its 2014 events..
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2013
    Work & Careers
    Sounds for future reference

    The British Library archivist trying to save audio recordings is in a race against time

    Will Prentice, Digital archivist at the British Museum for Business Life.
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