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Philadelphia on Stone: The First Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography, 1828-1878Until 15 October 2010This exhibition explores the history of 19th-century Philadelphia lithography and its impact on contemporary visual culture. Philadelphia on Stone explains the history and process of lithography, documents the professional and personal lives of premier and journeymen lithographers, and includes lithographs from the collections of the Library Company and several other institutions whose collections were surveyed.
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Salon du Livre et Papiers Anciens22-31 October 2010In the region of 130 European dealers will be offering a profusion of handwritten and printed documents of every sort and kind for this acclaimed paper fair. The metro is an easy ride from central Paris to Porte De Champerret. The theme on this occasion is La Vigne.
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Rude Britannia: British Comic ArtUntil 5 September 2010Gasp, cringe, or have a sly chuckle: Rude Britannia will certainly cause a reaction. See politicians brought down to size and the great and the good exposed; blush at the saucy postcards and laugh out loud at the slapstick fun - but watch out for that banana skin! Put together with some the country’s best-known cartoonists and comedy writers, this exhibition explores British comic art from the 1600s to the present day. Bringing together a wide array of paintings, sculptures, film and photography, as well as graphic art and comic books, the exhibition celebrates a rich history of cartooning and visual jokes.
The rooms exploring Politics, Social Satire and Cruikshank's Victorian masterpiece The Worship of Bacchus, have been put together with Gerald Scarfe, Steve Bell, and the cartoonists from Viz. These show the power of comic art as a form of social and political commentary throughout history, from satires of Georgian society by Rowlandson and Gillray to Spitting Image's damning Thatcher puppet.
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Victoria & Albert: Art & LoveUntil 31 October 2010This major exhibition is the first ever to focus on the unique partnership of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and their shared enthusiasm for art. Bringing together more than 400 items from the Royal Collection, it celebrates the royal couple’s mutual delight in collecting and displaying works of art, from the time of their engagement in 1839 to the Prince’s untimely death in 1861. The exhibition also challenges the popular image of Victoria – the melancholy widow of 40 years – and reveals her as a passionate and open-minded young woman. A fantastic exhibition that shouldn't be missed by the collector of royalty ephemera.
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Performing Arts Book & Ephemera Fair 2010Saturday 9 October · 10.30-19.00Specialist dealers will display for sale books and ephemera including playbills, posters, autographs, programmes, prints and photographs, ballet, dance, circus, memorabilia, and much more at prices ranging from a few to several hundred pounds. The Performance on Stage & Screen Fair is unique and attracts collectors from all over the UK and is a bonus feature for those attending performances at the National Theatre. The fair is organised by the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association and the Ephemera Society. All are welcome.
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OUTBREAK 1939Until 5 September 2010Seventy years after the announcement that signified the start of the Second World War and changed the lives of millions, this special exhibition explores how being a nation at war shaped the lives of ordinary men and women as well as those who were actively involved in the political negotiations and their aftermath. Historical material and personal memorabilia will illustrate the build-up to war and the early months of the conflict.
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The Ministry of FoodUntil 3 January 2011Seventy years ago the wartime government announced the introduction of food rationing - a control that was to remain in force for the next fourteen years. To mark this event Imperial War Museum London is opening The Ministry of Food, a major new exhibition to show how the British public adapted to a world of food shortages by ‘Lending a Hand on the Land’, ‘Digging for Victory’, taking up the ‘War on Waste’, and being both frugal and inventive on the ‘Kitchen Front’. Visitors will discover that growing your own food, eating seasonal fruit and vegetables, reducing imports, recycling and healthy nutrition were just as topical in 1940 as they are today.
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The book trade and the classical world from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuryFriday 26 & Saturday 27 November 2010
The SpeakersDavid Butterfield is the W.H.D. Rouse Research Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He has published various articles on Latin literature and the history of classical scholarship, has co-edited the Penguin Latin Dictionary (2007) and A. E. Housman, Classical Scholar (2009) and is editor of the Housman Society Journal. Freyja Cox-Jensen is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. She has worked on the reception of Roman history in the early modern period, and is currently researching the early modern trade in classical texts. Ceri Davies is Professor of Classics at Swansea University. He has published extensively on Latin writing in Wales in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and has also written a more general study, Welsh Literature and the Classical Tradition (Cardiff, 1995). He is currently working on an edition, with translation and commentary, of Sir John Prise, Historiae Brytannicae Defensio (first published 1573). Jos van Heel is a curator of the historic collections of the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague. He also is a curator of Special Collections at the Library of the Free University in Amsterdam. Dirk Imhof is curator of rare books and archives at the Plantin-Moretus
Museum in Antwerp. His research focuses on sixteenth-century book history
in Antwerp and the Plantin Press in particular. Together with Karen
Bowen he published Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations
in Sixteenth Century Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2008). In the
same year he earned a PhD in history at the University of Antwerp in 2008
with a thesis on the Antwerp publisher Nicholas Poole-Wilson is Managing Director of Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Christopher Stray holds honorary positions at Swansea University and at the Institute of Classical Studies, London. He has published on the history of Classics, institutional slang and the Cambridge Wooden Spoon, and is a contributor to the forthcoming History of Oxford University Press. Early booking is recommended and places will be offered in order of receipt. For fees, booking form and more information please contact:
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The room on the Absurd is curated by comedian Harry Hill, and includes such diverse materials as Alice in Wonderland illustrations, David Shrigley’s sculpture, and films by Edwina Ashton and Oliver Michaels . Within the Bawdy, Donald McGill’s smutty seaside postcards can be seen with works by artists as different as Aubrey Beardsley, Sarah Lucas, and Grayson Perry.
Following the revival of interest in classical languages and history during
the Renaissance, Latin and Greek texts provided the common foundation
for education, culture and scholarship for the next 500 years. In this two day
conference, to be held at the Warburg Institute
Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, leading authorities in their field will describe and discuss
classical publishing and book collecting in a European context from the
sixteenth to the later nineteenth centuries.
 
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