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The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the independent charity that promotes the enjoyment and understanding of Shakespeare’s life and works, has announced a major step forward in its development plans.
Byron: A Life in Motion at the New York Public Library will explore the extraordinary life of Lord Byron, from his youth until death in 1824 at the age of 36, with a focus on the complexity of his character.
An unsent version of the 1939 letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Roosevelt warning that Germany could be assembling nuclear weaponry comes to auction on September 10 at Christie's.Einstein wrote in his short note that "Recent work in nuclear physics made it probable that uranium may…
Organisers of the Brontë Society Conference have issued a call for papers for its 2025 edition, Under an African summer’s sun: Re-mapping the Brontës: Place, Race and Empire.
The 50th anniversary of Robert A. Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, published on September 16, 1974, is celebrated in a new exhibition at The New-York Historical Society.
Freeman’s | Hindman will bring a unique piece of American and French history to the auction block in September for its Books and Manuscripts auction in Philadelphia.
Scripts from the personal library of the late American director-producer Stanley Kramer will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions on July 25-26.Kramer concentrated on tackling subjects with important social and political messages, earning 85 Academy Award nominations and 15 wins over 35 movies…
More than a dozen letters and cards from Diana Princess of Wales to her family’s former housekeeper come to auction in Essex, England, this summer. Sworders’ Out of the Ordinary sale in Stansted Mountfitchet on July 30 includes a trove of correspondence between the princess and the lady she knew…
A rare first edition 1688 copy of Aphra Behn’s novel Oroonoko has gone on display at The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge in Canterbury, England.The book has been added to the museum’s current summer exhibition which is celebrating the life and work of locally-born Aphra Behn, the first…
Montblanc's latest annual writing instrument collection celebrates Jane Austen who joins Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, and the Brothers Grimm in its Writers Edition range.
