Shakespeare’s sister: how using digital archives revealed hidden insights into world famous playwright’s unknown sibling
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Newly published collection - Letters by Oliver Sacks – provides valuable insight into a curious mind
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Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” Susanna Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England (gifted link)
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The Place of Tides by James Rebanks review – a warming tale of gathering eiderdown in Norway
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Beyond Bilbo: JRR Tolkien’s long-lost poetry to be published
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Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer – will pen a manuscript that won't be published until 2114
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Two more women accuse Neil Gaiman of sexual assault and abuse
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A forgotten poem by Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis reveals details of friendships between fantasy writers and medievalists at the University of Leeds
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Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton
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Travis Knight to direct Laika adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s ‘Piranesi’
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How Mary-Kay Wilmers became Britain’s most influential editor [2019]
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Writer, woman, playwright, spy: Aphra Behn, author of Oroonoko was the first known woman to be paid for writing in English
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When Virginia Woolf wrote about early women writers, she was unaware of or underestimated a few published Elizabethan women
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Researchers reveal lost library of Charles Darwin for the first time
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The kingdom of books – In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers
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Anna Atkins' photographs of British algae
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Each year from 2014 to 2114, a manuscript is sealed in The Silent Room of Norway's Future Library – the goal: greater hope for humankind
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How to lose a library [British Library cyber attacks]
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This library has most books ever published in the UK
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The Canterbury Tales Project collated the Canterbury Tales original manuscripts. It translates each line into modern English and reads it aloud into the way the text wold be read in its own time.
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Forgotten to return your library book? Don’t worry about it [library fines are falling out of fashion].
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Why 'The Hobbit' is still underappreciated, eighty-six years later: A Culture Re-View
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg has pulled out of an appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival over its links to the fossil fuel industry
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Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto was listed for sale on Waterstones website – UK bookseller removes anti-Muslim document by Norwegian extremist
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Dani Garavelli on the trials for the murder of Nikki Allan
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Alice in Wonderland’s hidden messages
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Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive
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The first ordinary woman in English literature. The life and legacy of the Wife of Bath.
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What kind of Angel: On Percy Shelley
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Judith Schalansky has become the ninth author to be selected for the Future Library, which asks authors to create a work that will not be revealed to readers until 2114
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JK Rowling's new book, about a transphobe who faces wrath online, raises eyebrows
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‘I just wanted my life to end’: The mystery of Agatha Christie’s disappearance
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What will survive of Philip Larkin
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Some of the world's most celebrated authors have written manuscripts that won't be published for a century – why?
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The book that sank on the Titanic and burned in the Blitz
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Two "stolen" notebooks written by Charles Darwin have been mysteriously returned to Cambridge University, twenty-two years after they were last seen
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Bill Nighy stars as the voice of Terry Pratchett
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Charles I's travelling library
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HG Wells fans spot numerous errors on Royal Mint's new £2 coin
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Tome raiders: Solving the great book heist
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Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time
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Terry Pratchett novels to get 'absolutely faithful' TV adaptations
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The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860
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"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time
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Karl Ove Knausgård is to become the sixth contributor to the Future Library, which collects works by contemporary authors that will remain unread until 2114
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Whistleblower explains how Cambridge Analytica helped fuel US 'insurgency'
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Women Between the Wars: In Jean Rhys’s novels, women exhibit a particular kind of English suffering, a perfect illustration of the female condition in the interwar years
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Despite being a best-selling author, Jane Austen was paid very little
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Future Library is one of the most interesting projects happening in Europe right now that connects literature, art and the environment
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For remote communities in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, mobile libraries are a lifeline
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