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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 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…
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…
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.
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has unveiled two exhibitions focusing on the experimental arts magazine Fire!!, and the nonprofit literary organization Cave Canem.
The Christie's online Rare Books and Manuscripts sale running October 27 through November 5 will feature engravings by Dürer and 20th century manuscripts by Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Boulez, and André Breton.A collage-letter by Breton addressed to Louis Aragon in 1918 (estimate: €30,000-€40,000)…
A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein filled with mathematical equations examining covariance and invariance in Hamiltonian mechanics sold for $71,811 at RR Auction's latest Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.
Opening next month at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, Plain Things Wonders marks 400 years since the publication of Francis Bacon’s influential experimental science text Sylva Sylvarum.
A working manuscript of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poem, working drafts of Dylan Thomas's work, and a cache of Leonard Cohen’s early poetry feature in Peter Harrington's new catalogue Poetry: The Heart of the Matter.Highlights include:
