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The Silk Road still casts a spell, but was the ancient trading route just a western invention?

Two dazzling new exhibitions at the British Library and British Museum show the riches of the supposed east-west link but also highlight problems with the whole idea

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‘Beyond the Bassline’: 500 years of Black music in Britain

Music is the touchpaper for this superb social-history exhibition at the British Library, London

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The British Library suffered a cyber attack last year—here’s why it was so impactful

Exploring the lessons we can learn from the large-scale ransomware attack launched at the British Library

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Ransomware groups warned there is no money in attacking British state

British Library says in review it weathered cyber-attack without paying hackers behind it

The Guardian - UK

Thanks to a shadowy hacker group, the British Library is still on its knees. Is there any way to stop them?

The future of cybercrime resembles an arms race between an industry of hackers-for-hire and the UK’s weak defences, says author Lamorna Ash

The Guardian - UK

Academia Warned To Guard 'Crown Jewels' After British Library Hack

While cyber-attacks on banks, utilities and media platforms may grab the most attention, the hacking of the British Library has led to warnings that academia has become an easy target.

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‘A 22-carat disaster’: what next for British Library staff and users after data theft?

Progress made on restoring access after cyber-attack but there have been complaints of poor communication

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British Library begins restoring main catalogue online after devastating cyber attack

Last year criminals knocked out the library’s website, which is used by over 11m people a year

Evening Standard

The Guardian view on the future of libraries: an old question of human dignity in a new form

Editorial: A cyber-attack on the British Library has shown how vulnerable digital archives are. It has reinforced the value of physical books and librarians

The Guardian - UK

'Totally and utterly bereft' — the devastating repercussions of the British Library cyber attack

One of the UK's most vital cultural institutions has been paralysed by a ransomware hack, but what does it mean for the Londoners who rely on it — and are more government organisations at risk? Robbie Griffiths reports

Evening Standard

British Library ransomware cyber attack ‘set to cost £7million’

National Cyber Security Centre and Metropolitan Police support investigation

Evening Standard

Richard Osman among authors missing royalties amid ongoing cyber-attack on British Library

Writers’ much-needed ‘annual windfall’ of up to £6,600 delayed as library in London struggles to restore crippled systems

The Guardian - UK

Weird Medieval Guys: this deeply researched book takes you on a romp through the Middle Ages

Packed full of satire, stunning imagery and interactive maps and quizzes, Weird Medieval Guys is a deep-dive into some of the most extraordinary – and quirky – aspects of medieval daily life. This little book, which should appeal to older children as well as adults, is split into two parts:…

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Malorie Blackman is celebrated with British Library exhibition

‘Malorie Blackman: The Power of Stories’ at the British Library shines a light on her journey as an author, while touching on social issues represented in her novels

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Malorie Blackman’s career honoured in British Library exhibition

Show dedicated to the prolific children’s and young adult novelist includes 82 rejection letters alongside her children’s laureate medal

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Personal data stolen in British Library cyber-attack appears for sale online

Ransomware group Rhysida claims responsibility for hack and has posted images from library’s HR files

The Independent UK

Cyber criminals demand £600,000 ransom for stolen British Library data

The Rhysida group has demanded 20 Bitcoin (roughly £602,500) for the return of the stolen data

Evening Standard

British Library confirms ransomware cyber attack has crippled services

An investigation has been launched with the support of the National Cyber Security Centre and Metropolitan Police

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British Library suffering major technology outage after cyber-attack

Access to the website and services at its sites in London and Yorkshire are unavailable, the library said

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Michael Heseltine’s air raid shows why levelling up from the top down is doomed to fail

The Tory grandee has revealed how he reshaped local authority boundaries by pointing at them from an aircraft

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British Library celebrates the surging popularity of fantasy fiction

Authors’ sketches, early editions and movie props all feature in a new exhibition exploring the long history of the genre

The Guardian - UK

Chaucer goes digital as British Library makes works available online

Library photographs and uploads its entire collection of manuscripts by author of The Canterbury Tales

The Conversation

The history of the Yellow Book – the 19th century journal that celebrated women writers

In the middle of the final decade of the 19th century, Britain was the most powerful and richest nation on earth, with the largest empire ever known. The nation might be thought to have had nothing of which to be frightened, yet frightened it was.

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How J.R.R. Tolkien's novels were inspired by Medieval poems of 'northern bravery'

In a moment of distraction from the laborious work of marking an “enormous pile of examination papers”, J.R.R. Tolkien flipped to a blank page on a student essay and scribbled, “in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.

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The KLF remake scrapped 1987 album and donate it to British Library

1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) was withdrawn from sale following a dispute with ABBA over unauthorized samples

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