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An archive of correspondence relating to the Kennedy political dynasty is expected to sell for £2,…
The final draft of the I Have a Dream speech given by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28…
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In 18th century Paris the Palais Royal housed booksellers in the galleries under the arcades and a new exhibition next month hosted by Les Enluminures will celebrate this heritage.
168 years after London’s 'Great Stink' which forced the government to pass a law to build the sewer system still in use today, a new exhibition explores Charles Dickens’s obsession with what he considered the most pressing of all of London’s public health issues.
Sotheby's will run the second installment of its Reason and Revolution auction devoted to the founding of the United States in December following the auction earlier this month featuring landmark works of science.
Three days after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion collapsed in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy signed a Top Secret letter directing General Maxwell Taylor to review U.S. military and paramilitary operations, with particular attention to the lessons of the failed mission.This April 22, 1961,…
The core of Sworders’ online Books, Manuscripts and Maps sale running through November 1 comes from the library of Michael Kuczynski.
A new exhibition opening today at the University of Leeds follows the bloody trail of the vampire through artistic movements and cultural moments from ancient times to the present.
To mark 100 years since Marilyn Monroe was born, The New York Historical presents a new exhibition on her life, career, and her lesser-known attempts to wrestle control of her legacy.
A wrist-mounted checklist containing Gene Cernan’s handwritten instructions for repairing a damaged lunar rover fender has sold for $510,000 in RR Auction’s latest Space Exploration auction.Cernan wore the checklist on his left wrist during Apollo 17’s second moonwalk on December 12, 1972. During…
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.
