Visitors can admire Balmoral's breathtaking three-acre (1.2ha) formal gardens, which are home to a number of ornate Victorian ...

Inside the British Library, two years on from devastating cyber attack - Staff tell Athena Stavrou they’ve faced abuse ...

Home to more than 170 million items, including the Magna Carta, the British Library is one of the largest and most impressive book collections in the world. But in October 2023, a major cyber attack ...

Around 300 workers at the British Library are in the middle of a two-week strike over pay. The workers, organised by the PCS ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CLARIFICATION Oct. 22, 2025: Although widely attributed to Oscar Wilde, the quote that kicks off this story — “be yourself; everyone else is already taken” — may not, in fact, have ...

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. Those are Oscar Wilde's words. He was, of course, a 19th century Irish poet, playwright and author. But being himself, a gay man in Victorian England, ...

The late Irish writer Oscar Wilde is set to have his reader’s card reissued by the British Library, 130 years after the original was revoked over his conviction for “gross indecency”. The British ...

The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his original was revoked following his conviction for "gross indecency". The ...

The grandson of Oscar Wilde will Thursday collect a British Library pass symbolically reinstated to the celebrated Irish writer 130 years after it was revoked when he was convicted for being gay. In ...