Alex Johnson
A rare image of Charles Dickens with a mustache rather than his more familiar beard has gone on display for the first time at the Charles Dickens Museum in
An ongoing series of marathon read-throughs by the public of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series of children’s novels continues at the end of this month in Cumbria on the banks of Winderme
Enthusiasts of the works of Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) will soon have the opportunity of settling down for the night in his home.
Manuscripts, early prints, maps, and other treasures from the Bodleian Libraries’ collections in Oxford are on show in a new exhibition examining how 600 years of Anglo-Dutch history have affected
Book collecting prizes for students have restarted in the UK after a Covid-enforced lapse.
The earliest known child’s letter to Santa Claus in Britain was sent in 1895 from a child in Lincolnshire addressed to ‘Father Christmas, The North Pole, G.P.O,’ but by the early 1900s thousands of
A long-lost book dummy for a children’s book about the English countryside by painter Eric Ravilious is the centerpiece of a new show at the Wiltshire Museum in England.
For its 42nd Annual Conference on Book Trade History at the end of this month, the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Associ
A new exhibition at the National Library of Wales focuses on the history of how the Bible has been translated into Welsh.
If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to be at the controversial sale of the Luttrell Psalter in 1929, a virtual reenactment of two famous auctions will give you a glimpse.
