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Dickensian London: The Magic Lantern City is a new exhibition exploring the city which…
The Jack Kerouac Center has released new architectural renderings by Boston-based Flansburgh…
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A remarkable archive of 42 love letters written by Bob Dylan to a high school sweetheart, Barbara Ann Hewitt, sold for $669,875 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The Hewitt archive, in total, contains over 150 pages of autograph material written between 1958 and 1959.
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Dallas – A hand-colored Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strip from May 24, 1987, sold for $480,000 at Heritage Auctions to set a new auction record for Bill Watterson and his beloved creations.
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The first full-size bronze statue of Virginia Woolf, by acclaimed sculptor Laury Dizengremel, has been unveiled, in a stunning location on the Upper Terraces at Richmond Riverside by Virginia’s great, great niece Sophie Partridge and Virginia‘s great niece Emma Woolf with her two-year-old son…
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As the lessons of the pandemic continue to be learnt, a new study from the University of Portsmouth and Copenhagen University has lifted a lid on the benefits readers took from novels during isolated periods of lockdown.
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London - In the closing decades of the 19th century, David Bryce went from a relatively obscure publisher to a vastly successful entrepreneur almost overnight thanks entirely to the production of miniature books.
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Historic Houses has announced that Chawton House has been awarded the prestigious Frances Garnham Award for Innovation in Education.  
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The extraordinary manuscript of George Orwell’s 1984 has been published by SP Books in a beautifully bound limited edition. Held at the John Hay Library since 1992, the 197 remaining pages of 1984 (183 handwritten and 14 typewritten) give a unique insight into Orwell’s final secluded years in…
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Austin, Texas — A credit-card-size fragment is all that survives of a manuscript scroll of the Gospel of John that was written in Greek circa A.D. 250-350. Once listed on eBay, it is now in the collection of the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. It is on view to the public…
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Chicago – A rare collection of letters by notorious American gangster Al Capone achieved exceptional prices in Hindman’s November 8th-9th Fine Books & Manuscripts auction. Books and manuscripts authored and signed by presidents and world leaders from the Patrick Atkinson Collection…
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The London Library is delighted to announce Helena Bonham Carter CBE as its first female President. Proposed by the Library’s Trustees, the appointment was formally confirmed by members at the Annual General Meeting on 15 November 2022, also marking the end of incumbent President, Sir Tim Rice’s…