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Unfurling the Flag: Reflections on American Patriotism at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and…
A one-page signed autograph manuscript featuring Franz Schubert’s choral setting Das Grab has sold…
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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An unpublished set of pen, ink, and watercolour sketches showing Charles Dickens and his theatre company in the midst of acting rehearsals has gone on show for the first time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.
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's Rare Books and Special Collections Group 2025 conference takes place September 3-5.CILIP is the professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the UK, and its Rare Books and Special Collections…
The Huntington has announced a wideranging exploration of the relationship between land, United States history, and American identities, drawing on its library and other collections.Launching this fall and continuing through 2027, THIS LAND IS… references the iconic 1940s folk song This Land Is…
A new exhibition at Princeton University Library showcases late 19th and early 20th century cartoons satirizing women’s fashion at a time when the 'New Woman' began to wear trousers, tailored jackets, and sportswear, and enter traditionally masculine spheres.
The Morgan Library & Museum has received a gift from William Palmer Johnston of works by Herman Melville constituting one of the most comprehensive collections of the author in print.The gift adds more than 200 items to an existing collection of rare Melvilliana at the Morgan featuring more…
