Inhabitat

Edwardian library in London receives a new wood pavilion

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 ...
Secret London

A Major Exhibition On Agatha Christie Is Coming To London Next Year – Complete With The Legendary Novelist’s Notes, Family Photographs, And More

A major exhibition on Agatha Christie is coming to London later this year, landing at the British Library to mark 50 years ...
Artnet

In Pictures: See Gilded Manuscripts That Span 1,500 Years in a New London Exhibition About Gold and the Written Word

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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

London’s Wiener Library is the world’s oldest Holocaust archive. It’s still collecting material.

It has also offered itself as a home to documents and evidence from other genocides. LONDON (JTA) — There are two sketches of Philipp Manes, a leading early-20th-century German-Jewish businessman, in ...