Do you believe in magic? If not, “Harry Potter: A History of Magic,” the latest exhibition at the British Library in London, might very well make you a believer. Opened last month, the exhibition ...

Today the struggles of history are for the most part left to specialists, but the gorgeous propaganda machine is accessible to all in jewel-like images. Some of the illustrations are more like ...

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 ...

After the successful digital makeover to the Mewar Ramayana, the British Library plans to apply that treatment to other historical documents. It took three years for the British Library to create the ...

Valued at $21 million, the Honresfield Library includes rare material from Jane Austen, Walter Scott, the Brontë sisters. A 1841 birthday gift for Anne Brontë with a written message from her sister ...

The British Library has joined hands with the National Library Board in Singapore with the aim of digitizing an extensive collection of materials related to the island state. This includes Malay ...