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The impact from last year’s ransomware incident has spread to scholars, readers and writers across the globe
The former BBC executive made it his mission to bring the nation’s book collection online — then disaster struck
London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services
Hackers open week-long auction of stolen data on dark web after breach in October
The most fragile sound archives in the British Library are under threat. Can they be rescued?
The British Library has digitised its collection of historic globes, some of which have never been photographed before
Thanks to sampling by rap stars, two veteran composers now have enough of a following that they are recording again
The brains behind the British Library
Popularity generates need for extra space next to headquarters at St Pancras in London
A clever show marking 40 years since the genre was born reminds us what all the fuss was about
‘Strange to think that such a soporific space should be where communism was dreamt up: Marx was a regular for decades’
The Senegalese singer and activist attends an exhibition exploring the history of west African literature and music
Possible embarrassment unlikely to take gloss off flurry of Sino-British cultural exchanges
Listing qualities has a striking effect but note too that persuasiveness depends on a right to speak
One man’s challenge: to visit and write about a London art show every day throughout August
The British Library archivist trying to save audio recordings is in a race against time
Diversity makes organisations more resilient
Virginia Woolf’s last known unpublished work chronicles life at Charleston, the family’s Sussex farmhouse
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