This is Anne Boleyn’s Book of Hours, and when I visited Hever Castle, I was guided through its remarkable provenance by Kate McCaffrey, whose research has shed new light on its ownership history

It was so much fun to speak with Alice, and to really get stuck into this remarkable book

I think of this whenever I see a book from Ewart’s library

I spoke about book collecting earlier this morning on BBC Breakfast

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It’s such a great conversation with young antiquarian book dealer and YouTube star Tom Ayling. Learn how much a first edition of The Hobbit will set you back – and how you can buy a page from a medieval for less than £200.

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I recently discovered 37 diaries belonging to a soldier of the First World War. As I began to read the diaries, I came across stories of the horrors of war, and the bravery and sacrifice of the man who wrote them, Major William Henry Tapp. But what I could not believe was

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