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Writers including Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nigella Lawson will gather in London to share readings and reflections two months after the author was attacked on stage

To “doodle” means to draw or scrawl aimlessly, and the history of the word goes back to the early 20th century. Scribbling haphazard words, squiggly lines and mini-drawings, however, is a much older practice and its presence in books tells us a lot about how people engaged with literature in…

Jane Austen’s works are globally renowned, but they were unknown in China until 1935 when two different translations of Pride and Prejudice were published. Today, her novels are increasingly popular and have been translated into Chinese many times – notably there have been 60 different retranslations of Pride and Prejudice.

This mind-bending illuminated manuscript was created in AD700 by Eadfrith, a monk who was as entranced by pattern and abstraction as Jackson Pollock

‘THE initial feeling was that what we had found was great, but we assumed it was in print because there was so much interest.” That was how Leon…

The Arnolfini connects with forests, the V&A shows Sokari Douglas Camp and the British Library explores a precious metal – all in your weekly dispatch

Delegates from the Yahgan and Kawéskar communities visited London last month to study the artifacts for the first time.

Camden’s “inspirational” first black headteacher has been honoured with a 15 metre long mural outside her old school.

That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a massive shift in the ecological landscape has been widely accepted for the past 50 years. Suddenly a trans-Atlantic exchange – maize for wheat, tomatoes for apples, tobacco for horses – meant that plants and animals were…