A new exhibition this summer will explore Charles Dickens's theatrical interests and the prolific retelling of his greatest stories on stage and screen.Running July 23 - 18 January 18, 2026, at the Charles Dickens Museum in London, Showtime! will show how Dickens was very…

A loan agreement has been agreed for the Bayeux Tapestry to come to the British Museum for display in 2026.In exchange, treasures from the British Museum including Sutton Hoo and the Lewis chess pieces will travel to museums in Normandy, France. The agreement was announced by UK Prime Minister Sir…

The publishing house and creative studio Hungry Minds has made its physical debut with its first pop-up shop in the heart of SoHo, New York, called The Book Store.Open until July 27 at 2 Rivington Street, the space is decked out to look like an old bookshop or a cabinet of curiosities, what Hungry…

Heritage Auctions' July 11–12 Concert Posters sale will feature posters for psychedelic art fans as well as followers of acts like The Doors, Otis Redding, Fleetwood Mac, and The Rolling Stones. "With most vintage concert posters, my estimate is that 99 percent of them were torn down and…

Highlights from Type Punch Matrix's catalogue Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: The Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend include:Evelina by Frances Burney

This week's Rare Book of the Week is a 14th century portable Magna Carta on vellum in Latin and Anglo-Norman French which comes to auction on July 9 at Christie's with an estimate of £15,000- £20,000.

A copy of Peter Henry Emerson’s groundbreaking 1886 photographic masterpiece Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads discovered wrapped in brown paper in a closet by a 98-year-old woman in Maryland following a house clearance will be offered at Roseberys' Fine & Decorative Art sale on July 10.

Peter Harrington has confirmed the return to Britain of William Blake’s illuminated books Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) which have recently been acquired on behalf of a private client at auction from the estate of Maurice Sendak.

A collection of correspondence written to a prominent Scottish Liberal MP will go under the hammer at Anderson & Garland on July 10 in its Collector’s Auction.

For the first time in nearly five centuries, Buckland Abbey in Devon will resonate again with the sacred sounds of monastic music thanks to research into a rare 15th century manuscript.