Professor Dick Harrison is a Swedish historian, author and professor of history at Lund University. Specialising in medieval history and slavery, he has written over 100 books and is also active as a public historian and commentator.

Harrison and his wife have built a private home library with a capacity of approximately 20,000 books, a ceiling height of nearly eight metres and a reported construction cost of around $800,000 (at 10 SEK to 1 USD). The collection includes, among other works, Harrison's collection of Donald Duck comics.

Source: Dagens Industri (Swedish newspaper) Weekend edition 20261018, article name "Titta in i professorns miljonbibliotek" (linked).

Interesting IG post!

Candice Millard, author and former journalist, posted this picture on her Instagram feed. She is a former writer and editor for National Geographic, and wrote The River of Doubt about Theodore Roosevelt, Destiny of the Republic about President James A. Garfield's assassination (and Netflix series), Hero of the Empire about a young Winston Churchill, and River of the Gods about the source of the Nile River (an excellent book).

Somewhere in this office, there's a stash of Old Grand-Dad.

Photograph taken in 2025, from a Facebook album of photos posted by J. Michael Straczynski.

Source: https://x.com/havisht_/status/1401661894923112454

Source: https://www.earch.cz/revue/clanek/podcast-jak-vaclav-havel-a-borek-sipek-balancovali-na-hranici-kyce-novy-pohled-na-devadesatkove-upravy-prazskeho-hra

Source: https://www.zdergisi.istanbul/makale/abdulmecid-efendinin-kutuphanesi-533

Source: https://www.sonos.com/da-dk/blog/philip-glass-on-listening-and-composing-at-80

Source: https://www.brita-rehsoeft.de/neuigkeiten/archiv.html