Sarah Lindberg

Sarah Lindberg is a manuscript specialist in the Books & Manuscripts Department, which she joined in 2014.
A history graduate from Exeter University, Sarah has a background in publishing, fine and decorative arts and manuscripts. She has responsibility for Bonhams' highly successful and wide-ranging manuscript sales, from mediaeval to modern, with a particular interest in 19th and 20th century artistic and literary figures.

In recent years she has catalogued and sold items as diverse as an illuminated charter from the reign of Edward III, a rediscovered Beethoven letter, the cookery manuscript collection of Ruth Watson, the first farewell letter of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, and the papers of Alan Turing's wartime Delilah Project. She is at the forefront of Bonhams' market-leading sales of women's suffrage memorabilia, achieving record prices and encouraging worldwide interest in this collecting field.

Sarah also conducts valuations of historical and commercial archives, whether held by institutions, record offices, companies or private collectors, for the purposes of insurance, probate or Acceptance in Lieu.