Posted on Thu., Feb. 14, 2013 by Matt Stevens

Bates and Anna. Matthew and Lady Mary. Lady Edith and Sir Anthony. Lord and Lady Grantham. If you are a fan of the British television series "Downton Abbey" you know that all is not fair in love. So far this season we have had a newlywed husband languishing in prison

Posted on Wed., Feb. 13, 2013 by Shelley Kresan

Another post—in two parts this time—in a series from the cataloger of the Anne M. Cranston cookbook collection, which consists of approximately 4,400 British and American cookbooks from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Posted on Tue., Feb. 12, 2013 by Shelley Kresan

Another post—in two parts this time—in a series from the cataloger of the Anne M. Cranston cookbook collection, which consists of approximately 4,400 British and American cookbooks from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Posted on Thu., Feb. 7, 2013 by Matt Stevens

For the second time in four years, The Huntington's Library Collectors' Council has added to the Library's Charles Dickens holdings, acquiring a set of 15 letters by the prolific 19th-century British novelist. Back in 2010, the council purchased a set of 35 letters, adding to the more than a thousand already in the collection. The latest acquisition comes just in time to celebrate the author's 201st birthday—he was born Feb. 7, 1812.

Posted on Tue., Feb. 5, 2013 by Kate Lain

Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington.

Posted on Fri., Feb. 1, 2013 by Lisa Blackburn

As Valentine's Day approaches, long-stemmed red roses tend to get a lot of hype. But here at The Huntington, February is all about camellias, as thousands of flowering shrubs come into glorious full bloom.

Posted on Tue., Jan. 29, 2013 by Matt Stevens

Jonathan Davis Hale and Henry Z. Osborne are not household names. Then again, that fact just might be their greatest appeal to historians. The Hale papers and Osborne papers are two of the acquisitions made last week

Posted on Fri., Jan. 25, 2013 by Brandon Tam

Mimosas all around! No, not the one you drink! The Mimosa I'm talking about is Mimosa pudica, "The Sensitive Plant" that is growing in The Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science. Some may refer to this plant as "The Humble Plant" or even as "The Shame Plant"

Posted on Sun., Jan. 20, 2013 by Matt Stevens

Today Barack Obama will be sworn in for his second term as president of the United States, although the public ceremony and inaugural speech won't take place until Monday.

Posted on Fri., Jan. 18, 2013 by Matt Stevens

This Sunday at 5 p.m., PBS SoCal will air the documentary "The Passion and Politics of Ed Edelman: An Untold Story of Leadership in Los Angeles." Edmund D. Edelman retired in 1994 after a 30-year career in Los Angeles politics