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Get Outside with Peter Harrington Rare Books
This summer we’ve been blessed with fine weather in London, leading many of our booksellers and customers to daydream of spending less time in their libraries and more time in the great outdoors in...
Five Forests in Literature
A source of both knowledge and mystery, the forest is a terrain of possibility. The Scottish-American naturalist, and father of the American Nationals Parks, John Muir said: “The clearest way into...
Your Own Sylvia: A letter from Sylvia Plath to Ted Hughes
Sometimes items come into our hands which plunge us, in medias res, into the life of a writer. This emotionally charged letter from Sylvia Plath to her husband Ted Hughes is such an item; the...
‘Two Dear Greek Women’: Michael Field’s Dionysian aestheticism
By Alessia Colombo, Cataloguer Michael Field was the poetic identity created by Katharine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece and sometime lover Edith Emma Cooper (1862-1913). The two women...
Collecting the Works of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest English novelist of the nineteenth century and is the most quoted writer in English after Shakespeare. Bursting with vivid characters and settings,...
Learn the Lore: What happens in the Silmarillion?
The beloved novels of J. R. R. Tolkien have found homes in the hearts of readers since their publication in the mid-20th century, rising to global renown after the hugely successful film adaptations...
Enter The World of Jazz
A little over a hundred years ago they asked “What is jazz”? To which Louis Armstrong made the timeless reply, “If you have to ask, you’ll never know”. But a perhaps more troubling question
still is how do you collect jazz? Our experts have put togeher a remarkable gathering of 50 items which evoke the ephemeral moment and improvisatory spirit of jazz.
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