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Items related to the Gettysburg Address and Abraham Lincoln's final Annual Message to Congress will…
A rare group of surviving documents connected to the first modern Olympic Games are being offered…
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69-year-old Key West local Tim Stockwell has been crowned winner of the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest title, beating more than 130 contestants.
Highlights from the Melbourne Rare Book Fair which runs July 31 - August 2 at Wilson Hall, The University of Melbourne include:* Jack London, typescript of South Sea story Mauki which sheds light on the brutal labour trade in which Pacific Islanders were coerced or kidnapped into indentured…
Illustrating Austen at the The Holburne Museum in Bath will showcase the artwork featured in Jane Austen novels over the last 150 years.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will open a new exhibition this fall exploring Eric Carle’s career through the perspective of food. Running September 20 through August 23, 2026, Cooking with Eric Carle will feature more than 50 works dating between 1965 and 2019.
A group of researchers led by researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Nottingham has launched an AI model that can contextualise ancient inscriptions. The research, published in the journal Nature, explains how the AI model called Aeneas could greatly reduce the workload of…
Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum Miriam Margolyes has officially opened its new exhibition Showtime! revealing the author's love of performing and two centuries of productions of his stories for theatre, film, television, radio and podcast.The co-writer and solo star of Dickens’ Women in…
Leading the Cecil B. DeMille section of Heritage Auctions' Hollywood/Entertainment sales was led by the DeMille-commissioned granite Ten Commandment tablets which went for $325,000.
The Morgan Library & Museum will present Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life later this year devoted to the importance of the Psalms in medieval art, prayer, and everyday life.
This week's entry is a collection of more than 170 autograph letters written by the American former CIA counterintelligence officer Alrich Ames found guilty of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. They will go under the hammer in Dominic Winter's July 23 Printed Books,…
A major donation by Australian singer and writer Nick Cave to an Oxfam bookshop in Hove on England's south coast has drawn fans to browse the items from his personal library.The 2,000 volumes come from the recent Stranger Than Kindness art installation in Canada and Copenhagen in collaboration with…
