Hello, readers. Here are some interesting links on libraries, archives, museums, and famous figures like Blackbeard and Dorothy Sayers. Enjoy your historical highlights.

Looking for a good book? A history of the Library of Congress came out this month.

If you’re hoping to view some illuminated manuscripts in 2018, consult this handy list.

How does a museum keep track of a collection of 500,000 objects?

The UK National Archives posted about opening up their World War II prisoner of war collection.

Unique Viking runes were recently discovered in Denmark.

The earliest reference to tea drinking in England is on a note dated 1644.

Fragments from a book published in 1712 were found on the wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge.

Was the Black Death really spread by rats?

Read a post about a gruesome murder and a bizarre phone call to Dorothy Sayers.

And that’s all for this week!