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, ...

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 ...

An ancient landmark in Oxford has been named among the UK's 30 most beautiful buildings and no, it isn't Blenheim Palace. Two-thirds (67 per cent) of those quizzed agree that the UK has some of the ...

One titillating, new library collection has the whole world watching. The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library exhibit, Story of Phi: Restricted Books, displays a collection of "obscene" literature ...

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 ...

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Oxford’s Bodleian library—aka the Bod—is one of England’s largest libraries, a 414-year-old research hub steeped in tradition and history. For example, only three types of chair have ever been ...

A British philanthropist has given $2.2-million to the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries to expand efforts to digitize their vast collection of books and manuscripts. The gift, by the ...

A rare handwritten copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 has been found in Oxford University’s Bodleian Library. The copy of a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 was previously undocumented, ...