The Guardian view on the British Library: don’t privatise the reading rooms | Editorial

Cybercriminals are to blame for the current crisis. But renting out study space will not lead to recoveryIt holds two copies of Magna Carta, the charter that set limits on royal power in 1215. It has the sole surviving manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf and notebooks by some of the most beloved authors in the English language: Jane Austen…