For more than 100 years, the British Library kept thousands of its dirtiest books locked away from the rest of its collections. All volumes deemed to be in need of extra safeguarding so that members ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving Hebrew manuscripts, a bible dating back more than 1,000 years, will soon be available online in a joint project with The British Library in London, the ...

The British Library is one of the world’s largest libraries, and is home to some 150m individual items covering virtually every country and language. And its vast collection of texts is to be made ...

One of the world’s oldest Qur’an manuscripts is now online, digitized in full by the British Library. The text dates from the 8th century — making it the oldest of its kind in the institution’s ...

This week, Google and the British Library have announced an exciting new collaboration to digitize 250,000 books from the out-of-copyright texts of the 18th and 19th centuries. This monumental project ...

Google has made a deal with the British Library to make an extensive collection available online: The partnership covers non-copyrighted texts only, but will still make thousands of books available ...

The three-year collaboration includes a programme for Yuewen writers to see some of the iconic items in the British Library's collection, attend creative workshops, and engage in co-creation digital ...