Bisset Adams is undertaking a £1.7m redesign of the Guildhall Library in London, the library’s first major refurbishment since it opened in 1974. The City of London Corporation, which owns the library ...

It wears both its modernity and antiquity very lightly. Two ancient structures — St Lawrence Jewry and the Guildhall itself — are counterbalanced by the modern Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art ...

Copies of the First Folio edition were sold for between 15 shillings and one pound in 1623 A First Folio edition of William Shakespeare's plays that was published in 1623 is being put on display.

The Square Mile's Guildhall Library has mounted a small but informative exhibition about the Great Plague. The visitation of 1665 killed an estimated 100,000 Londoners — around a quarter of the ...

At the end of the 1960s the Corporation of London decided that the Commercial Reference Room at Guildhall Library, which had very well served the needs of businesses in the City since 1873, should be ...

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The Grade II listed building - which most recently housed a restaurant called The Library - is owned by Norwich City Council, which wants to sell the site. City Hall has been trying to get rid of the ...