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A life-sized bronze statue of Dame Agatha Christie has been unveiled in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, where she lived for more than four decades.
ALDE sells 386 lots of Livres Anciens on Wednesday, September 13, including a 1542 French edition of Boccaccio's Filocolo, which is expected to sell for €4,000–5,000.
'Small performances' will allow researchers at Cambridge University Library to step back in time to look at the creation of one of the world’s most popular and enduring typefaces, Baskerville.A second project at the library looking at the secrets contained within sacred texts of some of the world’s…
A copy of John Gould’s Monograph of the Trogonidae will be offered in the Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale at Tennants Auctioneers on September 29, with an estimate of £15,000-20,000.
York National Book Fair, running since 1974, has become the largest rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print book fair in the UK and Europe. The 2023 fair, featuring books, prints, maps, and ephemera, takes place at York Racecourse over two days, September 15-16, with around 200 booksellers.
The first real public narrative movie screening took place in Paris in 1895 featuring the Lumière brothers' comedy short L'Arroseur Arrosé (The Waterer Watered). The event was promoted by a large poster that depicted an enthusiastic audience enjoying this new kind of entertainment.
The Oxford Botanic Garden is continuing to celebrate its 400th anniversary - and Hobbit Day - with a new limited edition whisky that has distinct Tolkien overtones.
The British Museum Press today publishes Artists making books: poetry to politics, a striking new publication showcasing its little known yet extensive collection of artists’ books.
The Library of Congress has released some 230 newly digitized manuscripts written in Hebrew and similar languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian and Yiddish. The collection, available online for researchers and the public for the first time, includes a 14th century collection of responsa by…
Handwritten lyrics by Freddie Mercury lead the first night of the Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own auction at Sotheby's last night, eventually going for £1,379,000. Every lot sold in the 'white glove' auction which made a total of £12.2m/$15.4m, including Queen frontman's Freddie's Yamaha…
