Centre for Manuscript Genetics

19/08/2024

Businesses are selling off priceless documents piecemeal, after publisher gave the order to ‘get rid of’ them

13/10/2022

Previous versions of French novel featured stale bread, toast and biscuit as trigger for author’s childhood memories

05/02/2022

Scholars of the life and thought of John Locke have scoured repositories all over the world for decades, searching for anything that might shed light on his interest i...

02/02/2022

Joyce and Beckett reunited as University of Reading acquires major collection guybaxter February 2nd, 2022 0 Birthday greetings telegram from Samuel Beckett to James Joyce, 2 February 1931, reproduced by kind permission of the Beckett Estate A major new collection of books, documents and artefacts g...

07/01/2022

Rare handwritten manuscripts and printed books by the Brontës have been entrusted to the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

23/11/2021

A rare manuscript preserving Albert Einstein's early calculations leading to his general theory of relativity is set to go up for auction in Paris on Tuesday.

28/05/2021

It comes after years of restoration and cataloguing by the National Library of Israel.

24/05/2021

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

30/04/2021

The Dylan Thomas Trust have joined forces with Swansea University and the Harry Ransom Center at the The University of Texas at Austin to use the DiscoverDylanThomas website to share a series of blogs to coincide with International Dylan Thomas Day, the 2021 Swansea University International Dylan Th...

29/07/2020

Catriona Crowe shares two stories showing the importance of preserving proper records

11/04/2020