The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860
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"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time
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Karl Ove Knausgård is to become the sixth contributor to the Future Library, which collects works by contemporary authors that will remain unread until 2114
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Whistleblower explains how Cambridge Analytica helped fuel US 'insurgency'
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Women Between the Wars: In Jean Rhys’s novels, women exhibit a particular kind of English suffering, a perfect illustration of the female condition in the interwar years
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Despite being a best-selling author, Jane Austen was paid very little
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Future Library is one of the most interesting projects happening in Europe right now that connects literature, art and the environment
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For remote communities in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, mobile libraries are a lifeline
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Of vices and rears; or why I've stopped reading Jane Austen
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Simon Armitage: 'Witty and profound' writer to be next Poet Laureate
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Free short story vending machines delight commuters
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Oh no! The depressing truth about the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory workers
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Readers rejoice as shop finally sells book that sat on shelf for twenty-seven years
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Exiled: The disturbing story of a citizen made unBritish
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How a teenage girl became the mother of horror: Mary Shelley combined science and the supernatural to write Frankenstein, the world’s first science-fiction novel
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British Library acquires the St Cuthbert Gospel – the earliest intact European book
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Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell on why we need libraries – an essay in pictures
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The quest to find William Shakespeare's library
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A critic sells books down by the seashore - A bookstore in the village of Wigtown, Scotland, allows people to run the shop while renting an apartment upstairs
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Where the ‘no ending a sentence with a preposition’ rule comes from
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