The head of the Bodleian library offers a portrait of the photographer who was ‘one of Britain’s greatest visual ambassadors’

Experts have been mistrusted throughout history – but in the age of AI we need them more than ever

Naomi Alderman's Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today is a compelling if sweeping account of what history can teach us about the age of surveillance capitalism

The spirit of public improvement that led to the legislation that created free public libraries 175 years go needs to be rekindled

Titles banned, data deleted, the nation’s librarians sacked without explanation – Donald Trump’s war on books is a threat to democracy across the world, writes the head of Oxford University’s libraries