The new director of the British Museum has suggested the institution could pursue a “lending library” approach under his tenure – potentially paving the way for a return of the Parthenon ...

Not merely the higher divisions of the class, but the genera and species are all fully characterised, and to each species is appended a list of the specimens of it contained in the British Museum.

The American painter Benjamin West and the director of the British Museum library, Joseph Planta, appear seated in armchairs (left). The metopes are displayed high on the wall, and the running ...

Now in the care of the British Library, the 22-kilogramme (50-pound) manuscript is being loaned for three months to the Jura ...

The British Library has had the book thrown at it after a worker complained that it was too noisy. Lidia Kogut has been awarded £7,500 by an employment tribunal because she wasn’t given a quiet ...