library

Including information on Holocaust Memorial Day events

The van stops in a different part of the City of London each weekday.

Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea councils hail move to save local libraries – but the news isn’t as good as they claim.

Relax with a good book this weekend in a pop-up library in Covent Garden piazza.

Lewisham Council have come up with some ideas for what to do with five libraries which look certain to close on 28th May.

History lovers, prepare to descend on Kensington for the second London History Festival. Six events bring together writers of fascinating books about the past to chat and answer questions. The ever-popular Tudor period gets a look-in with Justin Pollard (QI researcher and consultant to TV …

Photo by pfig from the Londonist Flickr pool Harrow Council is proposing replacing up to 40 librarians with self-service check-out machines in an effort to cut costs. Along with other councils placed in difficult circumstances by massive government budget cuts, Harrow needs to save money …

Last year we witnessed the Fitzrovia Noir project which had rescued remnants and relics from the closed Middlesex Hospital in an artistic attempt to preserve the memories of its people and patients. Now Wellcome Library is also a party to the past of this historic …

Throughout March we’re exploring the collections of our Museum of the Month, the Horniman in Forest Hill. Takejiro Hasegawa made a bundle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries selling exotic crêpe paper storybooks to European travellers in Japan. Always the completist, Frederick John …

Shakespeare’s Globe is not only getting a new thatch but will enhance its collection with a Shakespeare First Folio as part of a donation of around 450 works including plays from the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. The donor, US playwright John Wolfson, has bequeathed …