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A 1920 tour contract guaranteeing George Herman 'Babe' Ruth $10,000 for 10 exhibition games in Cuba…
An archive of correspondence relating to the Kennedy political dynasty is expected to sell for £2,…
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RR Auction’s latest Military and Cold War auction saw sales of rare historical war memorabilia come close to totalling $500,000.
The British Library's new exhibition Digital Storytelling explores how evolving online technologies have changed how writers write, and readers read.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has announced that the Billy Rose Theatre Division has acquired the archive of George C. Wolfe, the writer, director, and producer. The acquisition continues the Library’s mission to preserve documents of important figures who have advanced…
Potter & Potter Auctions' June, 2023 Magic Auction includes selections from the collections of Jim Deloach, William Trotter, and Ken Klosterman's Salon de Magie library.
Posters featuring magician superstars of yesteryear take several of the top lot slots in this sale including:
Raucous texts – mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences to get drunk; and shocking them with slapstick – shed new light on Britain’s famous sense of humour, and the role played by minstrels in medieval society.
The texts contain the earliest recorded use of ‘red herring’ in…
The Christie's Paris online sale of Photographies ends on Tuesday, June 6. The 65 lots include a gelatin silver print of Helmut Newton's "Roselyne at Arcangues" (1975), which is expected to sell for €90,000–110,000.
A remarkable unseen trove of Freddie Mercury’s handwritten lyrics and working drafts for Queen’s have been unveiled by Sotheby's in New York, before travelling to Los Angeles and Hong Kong. The manuscripts will then return to London as part of a month-long exhibition in August prior to their sale…
The Raab Collection has announced the discovery of an important document from World War II, a forgotten relic of a great mission connecting the victory against the Nazis to a little known US/UK exchange, never before seen by the public or offered for sale.
Rare Book School's 2023 summer’s lecture series gets underway on June 5 at the Dome Room, UVA Rotunda with S. Max Edelson, Professor of History, University of Virginia, talking on The Surveyor’s Eye: Topographic Mapping and the Contest for Empire in Eighteenth-Century British America in the NEH-…
English cartoonist Norman Thelwell is perhaps best known now for his humorous drawings of chubby ponies and pony club girls but he was also keenly interested in the environment as the Cartoon Museum in London reveals in its new exhibition marking the 100th year of his birth.
