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A new exhibition at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House explores for the first time how Elizabeth Gaskell represented her home city in her novels and the impact of her writing from Victorian times to the present.
A book vending machine has been installed at Exeter St Davids thanks to a new partnership between Penguin Books in England, Exeter UNESCO City of Literature and Great Western Railway.
Supplied by Southwest-based vending machine company Graddon Vending, the machine sits in the entrance to Exeter St…
The Menil Collection is presenting exhibition of drawings by Polish-born American artist Si Lewen (1918-2016), made in preparation for his groundbreaking graphic novel about the never-ending cycle of war, The Parade (1957). All 55 original drawings reproduced in the book are being exhibited at the…
The countdown has begun to Festival of Libraries (June 7-11, 2023), a celebration of the role that Greater Manchester’s 133 libraries play in wellbeing, culture, creativity and more. It’s a festival for everyone that spans internationally renowned institutions such as Central Library, Chetham’…
A copy of 1939's Detective Comics No. 27 featuring the first appearance of Batman sold for $1.74 million at Heritage Auction's latest Comics & Comic Art sale. Graded Fine 6.0 by Certified Guaranty Company, it ties the auction record set in May 2022 when a higher-graded copy realized the…
Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) inspired numerous artistic interpretations, most notably from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who considered him one of their ‘immortals’.
The British Library has reported on its Gender Pay Gap for the sixth year of what is now an annual cycle of reporting. As an employer with over 250 staff, the Library is required by law to carry out Gender Pay reporting under the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap) Regulations 2017.
The archive of the English poet, journalist and literary critic James Fenton is heading to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
Fenton’s body of work traces the political upheavals of our time, including the regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the suppression of…
Arthur Ransome fans will gather in the Lake District this summer for a marathon reading of Swallowdale, one of the adventures in the Swallows and the Amazons series.
The event will take place over the June 24/25 weekend at the Windermere Jetty Museum and devotees of the children’s story of all…
The Raab Collection has unveiled two powerful and revealing Ernest Hemingway letters that touch upon writing, life, filming The Old Man and the Sea, fishing, travel, and, perhaps most importantly, death and the afterlife, including his near-death experience in two airplane crashes. They also shed…
