Books
Rare Charlotte Brontë ‘little book’ to go on show at Haworth
A rare book the size of a matchbox written by the teenage Charlotte Brontë will go on public display for the first time after a
February 22, 2020 No Comments
Books
A Movie for Bibliophiles, Finally!
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also
February 14, 2020 No Comments
Libraries
When reading is your one true love ❤️
How do we #LoveReading? Let us count the ways. If reading is your one true love, celebrate your Valentine’s Day the library way with these
February 13, 2020 No Comments
History
1913 Fall Fashions from the Army & Navy Co-operative Society Circular
A section of the 1913 Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd Circular featuring new Autumn Fashions. This Flickr album was created by Jennifer Sweetapple, a
February 12, 2020 No Comments
Books
National Library Shelfie Day
#Library#Shelfies offer book stores, libraries, schools, and individuals an opportunity to express their reading preferences through a single photograph. Today is your day to share
January 22, 2020 No Comments
Maps & Cartography
Emma Willard’s Maps of Time – The Public Domain Review
Emma Willard’s Maps of Time By Susan Schulten In the 21st-century, infographics are everywhere. In the classroom, in the newspaper, in government reports, these concise
January 22, 2020 No Comments
Books
A library of one’s own: Meet the man who owns 12,000 books and now organizes the Melbourne Rare Book Week.
“Once upon a time, a university student called Chris Browne decided to take up book collecting. It was 1970, and he bought a first edition
June 24, 2019 No Comments
Books
An extremely rare book worth thousands is on display in Singapore
#1: The book is where Singapore got its knowledge about Sang Nila Utama and the Singapore stone from. #2: It’s extremely rare – and probably worth thousands of
February 15, 2019 No Comments
Books
24 Children’s Stories That Still Give Us the Creeps
Atlas Obscura readers wrote in about the classic tales that taught them one thing—unease. The stories and books we consume as children can stick with
January 29, 2019 No Comments
History
Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses
Medieval scribes protected their work by threatening death, or worse. In the Middle Ages, creating a book could take years. A scribe would bend over
January 29, 2019 No Comments
Books
Heywood Hill, the Legendary London Bookshop Outfitting the World’s Best Private Libraries | Architectural Digest
Buying a best-selling thriller for an escapist read is one thing. Assembling an array of books for a library that is tailor-made to one’s own
January 16, 2019 No Comments
Books
Giant bird book gets rare public outing – BBC News
Rare Audubon bird book displayed at Liverpool library – One of the world’s rarest books by the 19th Century US artist and ornithologist John James
January 16, 2019 No Comments
Books
See Harry Potter – A History of Magic – New-York Historical Society – NewsWhistle
All kinds of magical artifacts from the British Library, from the New-York Historical Society’s own collections, and from other institutions, all of which illustrated the
January 16, 2019 No Comments
Humor
At The Beinecke, A Look At David Sedaris’ Life Before Santaland | Connecticut Public Radio
David Sedaris’ reading of the “Santaland Diaries” is an NPR tradition. Twenty-six years ago, he first shared his tale of being Crumpet, one of Santa’s
December 26, 2018 No Comments
Art & Artists
December 26, 2018 No Comments