You have probably heard the phrase "Country House Libraries" and you may have noticed a few of these collections in National ...

This time, its doors are open for a new exhibition Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter, which marks the 250th ...

British researchers have determined that a “copy” of the Magna Carta owned by the Harvard Law School Library is a rare ... Vincent called it “the most famous single document in the history ...

The Capitol building also housed the Library of Congress, and its 3,000 volumes of highly combustible material could not be moved so quickly. The volumes were ignited by British troops.

Americans have long been taught the basics of Paul Revere's famed midnight ride — which he completed exactly 250 years ago Saturday — to alert U.S. minutemen of British troops' approach ...

A copy of every single publication produced in the UK and Ireland is sent to The British Library – an institute ... Here, some of the most famous written and printed items in the world are ...

A project to convert an extraordinary Egyptian-style Victorian mill in Leeds into the northern outpost of the British Library has been awarded £10 ... Unlike its Egyptian counterpart, it was famous ...

“I learned sort of fairly early on that I felt rather confident onstage,” she told Andrew MacKay in a 2010 British Library interview. “I felt more confident being somebody else on stage than ...

The British Library has introduced a new exhibition dedicated ... to include things like Chaucer’s Wife of Bath who is a very famous medieval woman. “Ultimately, she’s a fictional character ...

To celebrate the commencement of British Library ... Prior to joining the library in 2012 Caroline was the Head of Commerce at Royal Museums Greenwich - home to the National Maritime Museum, Royal ...

Diane Watt has received funding from the AHRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. The British Library’s breathtaking ... t limit itself only to the most famous medieval women.

The story was found while Stoker enthusiast Brian Cleary was doing research on the famous author in the Irish National Library in 2023 ... he had been searching the British Newspaper Archive ...