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Sotheby's will run the second installment of its Reason and Revolution auction devoted to the…
Three days after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion collapsed in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy…
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The core of Sworders’ online Books, Manuscripts and Maps sale running through November 1 comes from the library of Michael Kuczynski.
A new exhibition opening today at the University of Leeds follows the bloody trail of the vampire through artistic movements and cultural moments from ancient times to the present.
To mark 100 years since Marilyn Monroe was born, The New York Historical presents a new exhibition on her life, career, and her lesser-known attempts to wrestle control of her legacy.
A wrist-mounted checklist containing Gene Cernan’s handwritten instructions for repairing a damaged lunar rover fender has sold for $510,000 in RR Auction’s latest Space Exploration auction.Cernan wore the checklist on his left wrist during Apollo 17’s second moonwalk on December 12, 1972. During…
A new exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opening next month will explores the connection between textiles and picture books over the past 60 years of illustration history.
A cache of correspondence by the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale will go under the hammer at Sworders on November 1 consigned by a descendent of Sir Thomas Longmore, the Surgeon-General and professor of military surgery at the Army Medical School.
In Autumn 2027 the British Library will present Conquest: The Making of Norman England, the first national exhibition to explore the history and impact of Norman rule in England.
A major exhibition exploring the history of poverty and housing in London opens today at University of London’s Senate House Library.Running through March 5, 2027, A Place to Call Home: Poverty and Housing in London is a collaboration between University of London and London School of Economics (LSE…
Art belonging to novelist Jilly Cooper will come to auction at Christie's tomorrow in its Modern British and Irish Art sale.Cooper, who died in October last year, and her husband Leo began collecting art in the 1960s when she bought her first painting, a Betty Usman for £15, after getting drunk at…
The prestigious annual 2026 Sandars Lectures series will be given this year by Professor Marina Rustow on the subject of Flax to Folio: The Global Diffusion of Early Paper and the History of Textiles. Rustow, currently a professor in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and History and…
