When Oscar Wilde was jailed for, "gross indecency," a 19th century euphemism for gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 ...

The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his ...

The grandson of Oscar Wilde will Thursday collect a British Library pass symbolically reinstated to the celebrated Irish ...

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

Oscar Wilde said the only thing worse than being talked about was not being talked about. So the playwright surely would have ...

The British Library has announced it will posthumously reinstate gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde’s reader pass after revoking it in 1895 due to his homosexuality. Known at the time as the British ...

A new book collects paintings and photos of some of the most familiar names in English literary history. By Erica Ackerberg Britain’s national library made the first major steps in its recovery ...

The British Library's collection of Ethiopian manuscripts is the richest in Europe, where there are in fact numerous public and private collections of such manuscripts. Three inventory catalogs have ...

Few of us are, and it made me wonder about the path ahead for national libraries. These great institutions date back to the ancient world — the first repositories of written material are in ...