This December, BBC Radio 4 and 4Extra will mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with a season of programming celebrating the life, legacy, and literary brilliance of one of Britain’s most ...

Surrounded by his expansive library and exquisite objects, a collector whose aesthetic helped shape America’s idea ...

Survey of 200+ librarians reveals 3 in 4 libraries lack sufficient foreign-language resources VANCOUVER, British Columbia, ...

More money for libraries and airports and a new tax on visitors are among the issues Alberta’s cities and towns want to bring ...

A collection of gifts, including letters, books and presentations from foreign heads of state, that former taoiseach Albert Reynolds received during his political career, will be handed over to the ...

Earlier in the fall, I attended a memorial service for the wife of a close friend. It was a solemn event, celebrating a long ...

Mere weeks into the job, ‘securocrat’ Sir Thomas Drew has positioned Paris’s 18th-century Hôtel de Charost as ‘an informal ...

A collection of gifts, including letters, books and presentations from foreign heads of state, that former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds received during his political career, will be handed over to the ...

Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a staple leisure activity: what could be more British than a weekend drive to ...

Declaration of Independence was signed. The Museum of the American Revolution is gearing up for the celebration.

A correspondent for Reuters, he became a global symbol of China’s isolation and of the anti-foreigner hysteria spawned by its ...

The co-founder of Speaking Tiger on why rural India has vanished from English fiction and why independent publishers remain vital for literary diversity.