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Letters: Jane Ghosh says it’s time to value all library workers, while Keith Flett wonders if the local MP can help

Maps do more than show us where we are or help us find where we need to go. They are powerful cultural documents, reflecting – and often shaping – the values, priorities and secrets of the societies that create them.

Oscar Wilde's reading pass for the British Library was reissued after its revocation 130 years ago.

The British Library said they hoped to honour Wilde’s memory and ‘acknowledge the injustices and immense suffering he faced’

The Nature of Gothic, at the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, explores the history of decorative borders over hundreds of years. It covers the period from the late medieval age to the Arts and Crafts Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Buckland Abbey recreates music telling of medieval life in extraordinary discovery

What A Difference A Day Makes will be released as a single on Friday to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.

The UK government has launched a major attempt to crackdown on ransomware – as the particularly kind of cyber attack continues to threaten life in the country.

The afterlife is not typically associated with aggressive pets and insatiable worms. But these are exactly the creatures that appeared to an unnamed woman recluse living in Winchester, England, over the course of three nights in the summer of 1422. The woman was an anchoress. That means she had chosen…