A new exhibition, The Golden Generation, British Theatre 1945-1968, on theatre censorship opened at the British Library on Wednesday, and was previewed in the Guardian on Tuesday, though, apart from a press release, is curiously absent from the BL's website,...

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I think there is a fundamental principle here: should publicly-funded libraries exclude any citizens? It might help if applicants for readers passes were interviewed and referred elsewhere if the materials they needed to consult were easily available in public or university libraries.

I've been on holiday this week, but I went on a bit of a busman's holiday, and popped in for a quick seminar on developments in the British Library - part of the British Library Roadshow. There was a bit of a mix-up and so I ended up in the seminar for commercial interest rather than the HE seminar, but as I was really interested in attending for ...

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Dame Lynne Brindley of the British Library came to Sheffield yesterday to deliver the Firth Lecture at the Univerity of Sheffield. The title of her talk was Culture, Creativity and Research and she looked at how the British Library as a publicly funded cultural institution supports the creative industries. Lynne began by outlining the importance ...

The threat to the British Library of budget cuts after the spending review is mentioned both in a news article and a comment piece by the BL's Chief Executive, Lynne Brindley. The effect is spoiled a little by a typo in the headline of the latter piece, 'we cannot allow the British Library's peerless collection to be put at risk by potential ...

British Library Entrance Originally uploaded by swashfordA couple of weeks ago I headed up to London to check out the latest exhibtion - Sacred. If you have any interest in history, historical texts or the history of European culture, this is an exhibtion you really shouldn't miss. From a piece of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the most beautifully ...