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Opening this summer at The Huntington will be its new exhibition This Land Is... which will focus…
The library of American-born poet Ruth Fainlight and her late husband the writer Alan Sillitoe…
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The rare book world is enjoying a solid return to business as usual, according to a statement from the UK-based Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association (ABA) and the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) who say that book fairs have recovered their position as the centrepiece of the industry…
The Miniature Book Society will hold their 40th annual Grand Conclave weekend conference August 23-25 culminating in the Sunday Book Fair which will be open to the public.
RR Auction's upcoming Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale running to August 14 features a collection of letters, documents, and manuscripts signed by some of history's most influential thinkers and leaders.
The National Postal Museum’s forthcoming exhibition Voting by Mail: Civil War to Covid-19 will explore the significant role of voting by mail in America. Voting by mail began in various forms during the Civil War when soldiers could not get home to vote, and it picked up steam again during…
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.
