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Revd Sue Parfitt is “quite relaxed” about the prospect of prison for attacking the foundational document as part of climate action but she is upset that her licence to officiate as a priest has been revoked
One year on, around 1,000 manuscripts are available online again
We speak to the British Library exhibition curator Melodie Doumy about the Diamond Sutra and other treasures from the Library Cave
Country’s culture minister calls for research into artefacts held by British institutions and also announces a Royal Academy show
A hack that has limited the British Library’s access to its digital systems is the latest in a series of online raids on cultural institutions
The privately owned Honresfield Library, which includes manuscripts by the Brontës, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, was due to be scattered to global buyers at a Sotheby's auction before a British consortium stepped in
New partnership will preserve the Birzeit museum’s most ‘at-risk’ objects on paper
Book looks at Thai and Burmese historic texts from the British Library
Rodin takes on the Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum while James Cook sets sail for the British Library
Farhad Hakimzadeh was given two years' imprisonment after it was learnt he had stolen volumes from the two UK institutions
Treasures lost in the punitive sacking of Maqdala are subject to restitution claims
Leading scholar is “saddened” by decision
The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft spoke at the British Library (BL) in January at the glitzy launch of Windows Vista, his company’s new operating system
The Art Newspaper reveals that sacred Maqdala tablets are hidden away in a sealed store of the British Museum
Scholars have reassembled the Hours of Louis XII
An investigation by The Art Newspaper led to the request for restitution of the 12th-century prayer book
Ownership dispute has been set aside for joint study and digitisation of the world’s oldest bible
The claim is for a bound 290-folio missal which appears to have disappeared in 1943
This will assist in the identification of looted artworks
The Art Newspaper has tracked down further details of what happened to the twelfth-century manuscript during World War II
