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Peter Harrington is due to offer a group of original manuscripts and typescripts for Now We Are Six…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg is a new exhibition…
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Al Milgrom’s original cover art for The Amazing Spider-Man No. 194 which introduced Black Cat in 1979 goes under the hammer for the first time in Heritage Auctions' January 9 -12 Comics & Comic Art sale.Milgrom, who’d previously worked on Captain Marvel and the Guardians of the Galaxy…
The history of the recently restored Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris defined has been shaped by books, manuscripts and prints which were used for worship or study and are now on display until March 16, 2025, at the Musée de Cluny – Musée National du Moyen Âge in Paris.
The Charles Dickens Museum opened its doors for the first time in 1925 and will be celebrating its centenary next year with Dickens in Doughty Street: 100 Years of the Charles Dickens Museum, a celebration of both the life of Dickens and of a museum which now holds the world’s most comprehensive…
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…
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:
