Literature & Music
Explore Britain's rich literary and musical heritage with events, features, news and web resources collected from hundreds of museums, archives, historic properties and libraries across the UK .
Dickens 2012: On the Trail of Charles Dickens
From the Historic Dockyard where his father worked as a Navy clerk to the Southwark Prison he once stayed in, follow our trail to follow the life of Charles Dickens.
Poetry and paintings unite for Shakespeare in Art at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice and As you Like it are among the inspirations for an exquisite exhibition marking 175 years of Newcastle's Theatre Royal.
Fourteen groups share £100,000 in Clore Foundation's Poetry and Literature Awards
The cultural charity announces a new round of grants boosting groups across the country working to inspire young people through literature and poetry.
Voltaire's English alter ego unmasked in letters discovered by Oxford University Professor
Fourteen newly discovered Voltaire letters have allowed an Oxford University team to shed light on his brief but important time in England.
Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books at Cambridge University Library
"Ten mini-exhibitions rolled into one" as curators choose tomes from centuries ago, journals from the trenches and Royal sermon books in a crop of collections in Cambridge.
Ragtime to Riches – a Musical Legacy honours Walter Harding at the Bodleian Library
Walter Harding, the Chicago ragtime pianist who assembled the world's largest collection of 17th and 18th century music and verse, has his achievements celebrated in Oxford.
Major new centre to celebrate groundbreaking Rambert Dance Company
After winning £360,000 in Heritage Lottery Fund money, the UK's oldest dance company announces plans to showcase its huge collection of costumes and historic footage on the South Bank, creating a......
Dan Snow and Emma Bridgewater star in six-week Literary Season at Kenwood House
Organisers say they are "thrilled" as the historic Hampstead Heath house launches a six-week season of free talks by well-known history and cultural commentators.
Zoe Beloff dusts off Mutt and Jeff for look at early moving image at Site Gallery
Current Sheffield show The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff brings the world's longest running comic strip into focus with management science and Duchamp.
Time travelling through a city's Victorian past in Dickens and London at the Museum of London
You might expect a Charles Dickens exhibition to revolve around A Christmas Carol at this time of year, but the Museum of London's major new show tells a very different story.
Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton and Galileo star in Treasures of the Royal Society
The science academy reveals library books spanning 350 years of exploration and genius, including the 17th century Natural and Political Observations...upon the Bills of Mortality.
A Hankering After Ghosts: British Library's Charles Dickens and the Supernatural
To mark the bicentenary of his birth, the British Library in London goes beyond A Christmas Carol for a new exhibition on Charles Dickens, the supernatural and the macabre.
Once in a lifetime glimpse of Royal Manuscripts as Genius of Illumination dazzles at the British Library
Jenni Davidson takes a look at Medieval masterpieces among an exhibition which spans the bookshelves of 300 years of English kings and queens from a collection founded by Edward IV.
The Queen, Ronnie Kray, Robert Maxwell and George W Bush: Private Eye's First 50 Years
The Victoria and Albert Museum plays host to the unusual sound of sniggering as it celebrates the birthday of one of the UK's finest institutions in Private Eye: The First 50 Years.
Previously...a new festival of Scottish history comes to Edinburgh
A new festival brings togther a variety of events and talks on Scottish history in and around Edinburgh for two weeks during November.
