A public inquiry has ruled against Oxford University's plans for its world-famous Bodleian Library. The university, which hoped to build a £29m depository at Osney Mead to house eight million books, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 60 Hebrew, Arabic and Latin medieval manuscripts from England's Bodleian Library in Oxford will be displayed, most for the first time in the United States, in a new ...

This year marks five centuries since the death of Aldus Manutius, an Italian humanist who forever changed the direction of publishing, and got in one of its first copyright squabbles. Aldus was a ...

Gerrit van Honthorst, Portrait of Princess Palatine Elizabeth, oil on canvas; Richard Rothwell, Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840-43), oil on board (all images courtesy the Bodleian ...

Stepladders have been banned from part of Oxford University's famous Bodleian Library over health and safety fears. Some students are frustrated that they cannot access hundreds of books on the higher ...

The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England is the only place you are likely to find an Ethernet port that looks like a book. Built into the ancient bookcases dominating the oldest ...

Oxford University library marks bicentenary of sacred Hindu text 'Shikshapatri' with UK tour ...