“I would hope a partnership of some form is possible,” he told the BBC in an interview, as reported by the Independent. “I think it’s a bit too soon for me to get into the particulars around how that ...

The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of gross indecency. On Thursday, the British Library will hand over a symbolic new card to his grandson.

The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his original was revoked following his conviction for "gross indecency".

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long ...

The British Library has announced it will posthumously reinstate gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde’s reader pass after revoking it in 1895 due to his homosexuality. Known at the time as the British ...

When Oscar Wilde was jailed for "gross indecency," a charge historically used to criminalize gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 years later, the British Library has re-issued it.

Preface / Sir Colin Lucas -- Notes on contributors -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction : from texts to collections / David Pearson -- The foundation collections. Henry VIII's library and ...

The library card of Irish writer Oscar Wilde was reinstated Thursday following a 130-year suspension resulting from his ...

An as-yet indecipherable inscription on a sword dating back to 800 years ago has researchers at the British Library flummoxed. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Wilde was convicted in England of “gross indecency” under the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which criminalised same-sex relationships.

George Bernard Shaw called it his “magnificent library in Bloomsbury.” Samuel Butler said the two places where he was happiest were home and the British Museum. Many of the best brains of the last two ...

London’s British Museum has removed two poems by the early-20th-century feminist revolutionary and poet Qiu Jin from view after Vancouver writer Yilin Wang accused the institution of reproducing her ...