Beautiful Science at the British Library: a history of the por...

In 1965, perhaps in a last attempt to keep the natives from getting restive, the British Council opened a library in Bhopal. In those days, it was a rustic little town inhabited on one side of that gorgeous lake by the former subjects of the Nawab ...

More than 10 lakh Indian soldiers fought in the first world war. As the British Library's collection of their correspondence is put online, Daljit Nagra reflects on their horror, heroes and hopes. Read

British Council is aggressively canvassing for online library membership. The Council, which is participating in the Mega Book Fair 2014, a three day event starting today at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has come up with an early bird offer of a 4 GB ...

Screenwriter and novelist Hanif Kureishi, who has charted ructions in British society from punk rock to radical Islam, has sold his personal archive to the British Library. The library said Wednesday the material includes diaries, notebooks and manuscripts of ...

A special edition of the British Council's Maker Libraries has gone on display at GUILD 2014 in South Africa, marking the launch of Cape Town as 2014 World Design Capital. The project has been launched in South Africa as part of the British ...

The British Library in London has awarded the Gambian National Centre for Arts and Culture (NCAC) a grant under its 'British Library Endangered Archives Programme' to help digitize the NCAC's oral history archives of over 5,000 recordings. The ...

(Media-Newswire.com) - Among all of the artifacts found in the archives at British Scouting headquarters, one handwritten document caught a historian's curiosity and ultimately brought together the British Scouting Association and Brigham Young ...

Regular AboutMyArea correspondent John Cartlidge has been doing some digging in the British Library Board archives. John's investigations were prompted by our appeal for people to get involved in researching the history and traditions of Neston ...

Archive front page: EDP 02 1954. Photo: Library Sophia France Sunday, March 2, 2014 8:00 AM As part of a new daily online series we look back on what was making the news on this day in Norfolk. Today, we look at the ...