The British Library has this week opened up its newspaper archives online, allowing visitors to now sift through four million pages of newspaper content, stretching back to the 1700s. This is the ...

British Newspapers, 1600-1950 is a comprehensive digital historic newspaper archive. It provides access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles.

When Oscar Wilde was jailed for "gross indecency," a charge historically used to criminalize gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 years later, the British Library has re-issued it.

The British Library has opened its archive of 300 years worth of local and regional newspapers, making 4 million web pages worth of news paper articles available online. Until now, those looking to ...

As digital reading technology gets better and better, so do the applications for its use. Everything from casual reading to textbooks to specific titles to assist readers with special needs has ...

19th Century British Newspapers is a joint effort between the British Library and Gale to make available searchable, full-text digitized versions of key 19th Century British newspapers. The aim was to ...

New collections include historical archive of The Telegraph – one of the world’s best-known newspapers, a unique collection of Chinese periodicals, and British Library Newspapers Gale, a part of ...

The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of gross indecency. On Thursday, the British Library will hand over ...

The British Library has reinstated the suspended library card of revered Irish author Oscar Wilde, who died in 1900. Wilde’s ...

Workers at the British Library, in central London, are to strike in a dispute over pay. The Public and Commercial Services ...