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The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London has announced its winter programme of…
The Raab Collection has acquired and is offering for sale a letter from Thomas Jefferson to…
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The Folio Society has release a new limited edition of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the book’s original publication.
Swann’s annual Printed & Manuscript African Americana auction was the most successful in its 28-year history. The sale set records with $1,377,463 in total sales and a 94% sell-through rate. It was the third largest sale in the history of the house’s book department behind only two noted single…
University Archives is embracing the revolutionary spirit by offering more than 55 lots of material autographed by Declaration of Independence signers and a cheerful pre-election note by Abraham Lincoln.
A new exhibition at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House explores for the first time how Elizabeth Gaskell represented her home city in her novels and the impact of her writing from Victorian times to the present.
A book vending machine has been installed at Exeter St Davids thanks to a new partnership between Penguin Books in England, Exeter UNESCO City of Literature and Great Western Railway.
Supplied by Southwest-based vending machine company Graddon Vending, the machine sits in the entrance to Exeter St…
The Menil Collection is presenting exhibition of drawings by Polish-born American artist Si Lewen (1918-2016), made in preparation for his groundbreaking graphic novel about the never-ending cycle of war, The Parade (1957). All 55 original drawings reproduced in the book are being exhibited at the…
The countdown has begun to Festival of Libraries (June 7-11, 2023), a celebration of the role that Greater Manchester’s 133 libraries play in wellbeing, culture, creativity and more. It’s a festival for everyone that spans internationally renowned institutions such as Central Library, Chetham’…
A copy of 1939's Detective Comics No. 27 featuring the first appearance of Batman sold for $1.74 million at Heritage Auction's latest Comics & Comic Art sale. Graded Fine 6.0 by Certified Guaranty Company, it ties the auction record set in May 2022 when a higher-graded copy realized the…
Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) inspired numerous artistic interpretations, most notably from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who considered him one of their ‘immortals’.
The British Library has reported on its Gender Pay Gap for the sixth year of what is now an annual cycle of reporting. As an employer with over 250 staff, the Library is required by law to carry out Gender Pay reporting under the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap) Regulations 2017.
