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A complete collection of the books published by 19th century writer and designer William Morris…
A selection of Washington Irving manuscripts leads RR Auction's January Fine Autographs and…
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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.
Scripts from the personal library of the late American director-producer Stanley Kramer will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions on July 25-26.Kramer concentrated on tackling subjects with important social and political messages, earning 85 Academy Award nominations and 15 wins over 35 movies…
