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The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has acquired a second tranche of papers of the poet Paul Durcan. Covering the period from the 1960s to the present day, the archive includes hundreds of the poet’s notebooks and folders with manuscript drafts of poems and other works, as well as annotated…
The National Library of Scotland, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh’s Remediating Stevenson project, has unveiled a new exhibition examining the later years of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life and his Pacific legacy. This free exhibition reconsiders a writer who arrived in the…
The wartime papers and drumhead wallet of an officer in the German Regiment of the Continental Army once stored on the porch of a descendant’s home and later featured on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow have been donated to the Museum of the American Revolution.
The Charles Dickens Museum has announced that its current Deputy Director, Frankie Kubicki, will become Director of the Museum in March 2025. Kubicki has been with the Museum for eight years, initially as Curator, before progressing to Senior Curator and, latterly, Deputy Director: Programmes…
A Christmassy selection for this week's Rare Book of the Week, a Bible (both Old and New Testaments) from the Oxford University Press, published around 1880, with the extra feature that it is also a handbag with folding brass handles.
Salisbury Cathedral has received an early Christmas present from Friends of the Nations’ Libraries (FNL) which has successfully raised £90,000 to buy a stunning 13th century Bible illuminated by the Sarum Master, and returned it home to the cathedral city after more than 700 years.
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments which dates to the Late Roman-Byzantine period (ca. 300–800 CE) has been sold for $5,040,000 at Sotheby’s New York, achieving well above its pre-sale estimate of $1m – $2m. The 115-pound marble artifact inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew was…
Various pieces of Americana and celebrity memorabilia are under the hammer at RR Auction in a sale ending tomorrow.
Highlights of the Encapsulated Auction which ends on December 19 include:
Our regular look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month. The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries by Andrew Hui
A handwritten manuscript by Sir Isaac Newton exploring the origins of the Nicene Creed and the true doctrine of Christ has sold for $69,870 at RR Auction's latest Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction.
