Alex Johnson

A new exhibition at The Postal Museum in London looks at more than a century and a half of the British postcard.

The 250th anniversary of the Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), author of Ivanhoe, Waverley, and Rob Roy, will be an occasion for a series of ev

From works of art and missals to wallpaper, German printers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were colorfully creative marvels.

The UK’s leading gardening organization, The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), has been moving its unique library to a new purpose-built home, RHS Hilltop at

Although it’s impossible for us to take trips at the moment, the Palace Green Library in Durham, England, has put together a treat for armchair travelers using its special collections of books, arc

Last week, the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds in the UK announced its acquisition of a very special book.

Bookbinding education in the UK has been given a welcome boost by The Clothworkers’ Company in London.

Although reading about plagues and pandemics in previous centuries may not be top of everybody’s agenda, a new online exhibition curated by The Queen’s College, Oxford, offers a fascinating glimpse

Earlier this year, a highly bejeweled miniature Quran that belonged to Queen Victoria went on display for the first time.

After a decade-long campaign by the Mary on the Green group, last month saw the unveiling of sculptor Maggi Hambling’s memorial statue to Mary Wollstonecraft in London.