In ancient days, libraries were centers of learning and collaboration, places where knowledge could be shared and spread. Banquets, conferences and important events were held in these monuments to ...

LONDON — It’s billed as the world’s largest library of film-related books, comprising some 3,000 titles. Given that so many of them deal with American films and that Westerns constitute the single ...

Whoever said you can’t judge a book by its cover never had the experience of beholding a truly illuminated manuscript, adorned with (no small amount) of solid gold. A new exhibition at the British ...

Thurston Moore has opened a record store, Ecstatic Peace Library, in London’s Hackney neighborhood. Sharing its name with Moore’s record label (and more specifically its publishing arm), the former ...

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 ...

Hatchards, in London, says its series brings attention to overlooked or formerly out-of-print novels. By Jessica Bumpus Reporting from London Hatchards, the historic bow-front bookshop on London’s ...

LONDONLONDON — Two environmental activists attacked a glass case containing an original copy of the Magna Carta at the British Library on Friday, causing minor damage to the reinforced box but leaving ...