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The National Postal Museum’s forthcoming exhibition Voting by Mail: Civil War to Covid-19 will explore the significant role of voting by mail in America. Voting by mail began in various forms during the Civil War when soldiers could not get home to vote, and it picked up steam again during…
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the independent charity that promotes the enjoyment and understanding of Shakespeare’s life and works, has announced a major step forward in its development plans.
Byron: A Life in Motion at the New York Public Library will explore the extraordinary life of Lord Byron, from his youth until death in 1824 at the age of 36, with a focus on the complexity of his character.
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The only surviving copy of My New York Misadventure, Winston Churchill’s account of his near-death car collision in New York in December 1931, features in Peter Harrington’s new catalogue of books, manuscripts, ephemera, and personal items to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Britain'…
An unsent version of the 1939 letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Roosevelt warning that Germany could be assembling nuclear weaponry comes to auction on September 10 at Christie's.Einstein wrote in his short note that "Recent work in nuclear physics made it probable that uranium may…
Organisers of the Brontë Society Conference have issued a call for papers for its 2025 edition, Under an African summer’s sun: Re-mapping the Brontës: Place, Race and Empire.
Our regular look at the new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse by Alan MacEachern
The 50th anniversary of Robert A. Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, published on September 16, 1974, is celebrated in a new exhibition at The New-York Historical Society.
2025 will mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth and Jane Austen's House in Chawton, Hampshire, will be celebrating with numerous events during the year.
