This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome the ‘Organ of the Book Trade,’ the landmark publishing magazine The Bookseller to our collection. Spanning 150 years of book-related news, we have released over 400,000 brand new pages for this title, as we have added 403,183 brand new pages in all over the last seven days. So read on to discover all about our wonderful new title The Bookseller, as we start the month of December with a bang. …
Lewis Carroll
British schoolchildren will dress as their favourite book characters today to celebrate World Book Day. The Cheltenham Looker-On proves that this isn’t a new phenomenon – here we see two doctors dressed as Tweedledum and Tweedledee in 1920: Cheltenham Looker-On – Saturday 17 January 1920 Image © Local World Limited. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. View the whole newspaper page