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A series of photographs taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98) – aka Lewis Carroll – of one of his ‘child friends’ come for sale at Sworders. The eight images come from a descendent of the sitter - Alexandra 'Xie' Rhoda Kitchen (1864-1925). They were recently found in an…
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) has acquired an important archival collection relating to pioneering 19th-century geologist and theologian William Buckland. Passed by descent to the current owners, the archive contains over 1,000 items including letters, notebooks, family papers…
At Heritage Auctions on Wednesday, April 12, Depth of Field: Photographs, in 203 lots.
Highlights from Potter & Potter's April 20 auction catalogue A Study in Sherlock: The Curious Collection of Robert Hess - Part I including:
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture has opened the Sorkin Reading Room, dedicated to its namesake, Michael Sorkin, the late distinguished professor of architecture.
Two new exhibitions at the Jane Austen's House museum look at her best known work and her relationship with her sister Cassandra.
The inaugural Penguin Research Network Conference Researching Penguin: A Far From Random House will run 17-18 May 17-18, 2023, at the University of Bristol.
RR Auction's April Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale features a selection of classical music pieces by Beethoven and Bach, as well as a letter by Nikola Tesla and a remarkable cache of documents from John Dillinger's first arrest.
During April this year the six legal deposit libraries of the UK and Ireland, the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library and The Library of Trinity College Dublin, are celebrating 10 years of collecting…
A hundred-year-old Peace Petition signed by almost 400,000 Welsh Women is to return to Wales as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History transfers the oak chest and petition to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
