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The Durham term for ‘gossip’ is just one of the regional words which campaigners hope to breathe new life into

Newly discovered official accounts show that, while a prisoner of Elizabeth I, her cousin lived a life of luxury

Modern fictional depictions have got nothing on the stories that swirled up around the young commander during his life

The muralist hits Salford, peasant life comes to Birmingham’s Barber Institute and Somerset House gets with the Halloween ghost theme – all in your weekly dispatch

British Library showcases two millennia of storytelling inspired by the ancient Macedonian conqueror

This infuriating show shoves Scrooge McDuck next to Plutarch in a postmodern take on history which seems to forget that the Macedonian warlord was a real, live person

Other lives: Book artist who designed and printed by letterpress and whose work is collected in the US Library of Congress

Sometime around the turn of the 8th century, on Lindisfarne, a windswept island off the English coast in Northumbria, a monk by the name of Eadfrith sits down and sharpens his quill. He dips it into the black ink pot before him and, guided by the light of flickering candle,…

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…

'I never thought all these years later my scruffy notebooks would be of such interest'