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To mark 100 years since Marilyn Monroe was born, The New York Historical presents a new exhibition…
A wrist-mounted checklist containing Gene Cernan’s handwritten instructions for repairing a damaged…
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A new exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opening next month will explores the connection between textiles and picture books over the past 60 years of illustration history.
A cache of correspondence by the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale will go under the hammer at Sworders on November 1 consigned by a descendent of Sir Thomas Longmore, the Surgeon-General and professor of military surgery at the Army Medical School.
In Autumn 2027 the British Library will present Conquest: The Making of Norman England, the first national exhibition to explore the history and impact of Norman rule in England.
A major exhibition exploring the history of poverty and housing in London opens today at University of London’s Senate House Library.Running through March 5, 2027, A Place to Call Home: Poverty and Housing in London is a collaboration between University of London and London School of Economics (LSE…
Art belonging to novelist Jilly Cooper will come to auction at Christie's tomorrow in its Modern British and Irish Art sale.Cooper, who died in October last year, and her husband Leo began collecting art in the 1960s when she bought her first painting, a Betty Usman for £15, after getting drunk at…
The prestigious annual 2026 Sandars Lectures series will be given this year by Professor Marina Rustow on the subject of Flax to Folio: The Global Diffusion of Early Paper and the History of Textiles. Rustow, currently a professor in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and History and…
The winner of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is Darby Ronning for The Alldera Collection: Feminist Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century.This is the last iteration of the annual prize which was launched in 2017 for American women book collectors aged 30 and younger.
The British Library has announced it has acquired the archive of novelist, short story writer, and literary critic Dame A. S. Byatt.Best known for her Booker prize-winning novel Possession: A Romance (1990), Byatt's archive is one of the most significant contemporary literary additions to the…
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
A first edition first printing of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold for $400,000 at Heritage Auctions, the second-highest auction price for the title behind the $471,000 record Heritage established in December 2021.
