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John Speed's market-fresh copy of the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman sold for £33,750 ($41,580) at Chiswick Auctions.
A new exhibition at Charles Dickens’s London home - A Great and Dirty City: Dickens and the London Fog -
Arion Press's new King Artist in Residency is a new book arts initiative in honor of the Grabhorn Institute’s late board chair Kevin King.
Six unseen and unpublished autograph letters from Roger Casement to his regular correspondent and confidant the German journalist Max Karstensen are to be offered at
The Lady Lever Art Gallery will explore 100 years of Cicely Mary Barker’s ethereal illustrations in a new exhibition Flower Fairies.
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the launch of William Bache’s Silhouettes Album, a microsite featuring
An anti-slavery poem written by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge is at risk of leaving the UK unless a domestic buyer can be found.
A Tintin coloring book cover was sold for $175,000 at Heritage Auctions' latest International Original Art & Anime sale, making it the most valuable Tintin piec
When they weren't working on helping to defeat Hitler, the codebreakers at Bletchley Park in England would often relax by tackling puzzles.
The Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, has acquired a manuscript of nine roundels that was a gift given by Archbishop Mat