The most significant events in the history of books on the 30th of October On this day, October the 30th, literary history witnessed a momentous radio performance from Orson Welles, and the birth of one of the leading figures in modernist poetry… 1751: Richard Brinsley Sheridan is born. An Irish […]
The most significant events in the history of books on the 29th of October On this day in literary history: a historian loses his head, a celebrated biographer comes into the world, and various other historic events in the annals of literature took place… 1618: Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded. […]
The best ghost stories from the Victorian era to read for Halloween or Christmas – selected by Dr Oliver Tearle As the nights are drawing in, how about a ghost story? The Victorians loved a ghost story, and many of the most celebrated writers of Victorian novels had a go […]