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 .
Museums at Night 2012: A night of art, books and music at London Transport Museum
Rosie Clarke steps inside London Transport Museum for Culture24's Museums at Night and finds DJs, artists, authors and something more akin to a performance art nightclub than a museum.
The British Library travels from Wastelands to Wonderlands in impressive haul of British literary manuscripts
The exhibition brings together more than 150 works from the library archives to explore the literature that has been inspired by places and spaces around the British isles.
Within This Wooden O conjures the time of the Bard at Shakespeare's Globe
The haunting paintings of Rosalind Lyons Hudson are the result of a residency at the Globe Theatre and currently form part of the famous theatre's exhibition and tour programme.
The Big Grin: Punch and Judy celebrations begin in sunny Worthing
Within a sausage string of the spot where Samuel Pepys first spotted him, performers are preparing to descend on Covent Garden to mark Mr Punch's 350th birthday. An exhibition in Worthing is one of......
Museums at Night 2012: Your guide to author readings and literary events
A host of authors will be appearing across the country for Museums at Night 2012 with readings and discussions on everything from the history of postcards to Afghanistan.
Museums at Night 2012: Your guide to museum and gallery sleepover events
The Museums at Night sleepover events are one of the most exciting and magical ways to enjoy this year's festival taking place nationwide during the weekend of May 18-20.
Volunteers wanted to describe Bodleian Library's music scores collection online
A vast haul of Victorian musical manuscripts is being opened up to the public in a large crowd sourcing and cataloguing experiment by the Bodleian Library.
Brontë cooking experience comes to Parsonage Museum in Haworth
A Halifax culinary centre offers fans the chance to cook like the famous literary sisters in a one-off day course being held this summer.
Museums at Night 2012 Competition: Win a visit to the Faber and Faber Archive
Enter our exclusive Museums at Night 2012 competition for the chance to win an expert guided tour inside the incredible literary archive of Faber & Faber...
British Library publishes 30 years of letters between Ted Hughes and critic Keith Sagar
The British Library has begun mining its impressive Ted Hughes archive with the publication of a frank 30-year correspondence between the poet and the critic Keith Sagar.
British Library secures oldest surviving book in Europe
Read our Curator's Choice as the British Library's £9 million fundraising campaign to secure the St Cuthbert Gospel succeeds.
The Bodleian and Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana announce collaborative digital library project
A £2 million award from the Polonsky Foundation will see the two libraries work together on sharing some of their most important scholarly archives online.
Team of experts aim to "transform academic and public understanding of Magna Carta"
Some of the country's foremost experts unite for a three-year project to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, led by the University of East Anglia.
Peace, love and harmony: Slack Space celebrates East Anglian Albion Fair movement
The Colchester collective celebrate the free festivals of their predecessors in a joyful archive show full of pictures from the fields of the 1970s and 1980s.
Louise Bourgeois remembered in The Return of the Repressed at the Freud Museum
Nearly 50 manuscripts recording the artist's reaction to her 30-year psychoanalytic treatment will be displayed alongside her most iconic work in a show at Freud's final home.
