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London in the 18th Century by Wallace Crawford Snowden, revised and edited by Marie…
'Revolution' is the theme for Firsts London at the Saatchi Gallery this year featuring books,…
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A special installation celebrating the art of Qurʾan manuscripts is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston through June 28, 2026.Sea of Ink, Forest of Pens: The Art of the Qurʾan in the Hossein Afshar Collection focuses on a dozen masterworks from the 7th to the 19th centuries, shedding light…
The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E.Y. 'Yip' Harburg, best known for their collaboration on the score of The Wizard of Oz in 1939.
The New York Public Library has announced plans to commemorate the semiquincentennial of the United States with a 2026 public viewing of The Declaration of Independence and a sweeping five-part exhibition spanning 250 years of history.
Rare Book School's new exhibition Famous and Forgotten: The Game of Authors will look at the history of changing literary trends via its huge collection of author card games.
A fundraising campaign launched by the University of York to secure the archive of scriptwriting duo Ray Galton and Alan Simpson who are credited with inventing the British sitcom has successfully reached its target.The two scriptwriters were influential figures in the history of British comedy,…
An unpublished set of pen, ink, and watercolour sketches showing Charles Dickens and his theatre company in the midst of acting rehearsals has gone on show for the first time at the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
A wide variety of documentation relating to the history of the Scottish Cricket Union and Cricket Scotland from 1908 to the present day have been acquired by the National Library of Scotland.
A century after Sir James Roberts gifted Haworth Parsonage to the Brontë Society it has announced that it has acquired three adjoining properties in the centre of Haworth which it intends to renovate.
Of the 138 lots covering the history of science at PBA Galleries' August 28 auction are 18 related to Albert Einstein with 16 offprints presented to this son Hans on topics including aspects of General Relativity, early work on Unified Field Theory and the Canal Rays experiment.
A handwritten set of 17th century records of prisoners at Stafford Gaol has sold for £11,000 in Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps & Manuscripts Sale.
