January’s Bookshop of the Month – Camden Arts Centre Bookshop
Happy Year to all our readers! We are continuing our bookshop tour in 2020 starting with the vibrant…
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Younger Sons of Regency England (Part I) – The Story of Benjamin Smith
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Bletchley Park and D-Day: A Q&A with David Kenyon
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Nazi Germany and Modernist art
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Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
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Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton, An Extract
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Lee Lozano: Not Working – an interview with Jo Applin
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Bookshop of the Month – Church House Bookshop, London
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A Year in Yale Books
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Competition: Win a signed copy of Francis Spufford’s True Stories & Other Essays
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Bookshop of the Month – Lighthouse, Edinburgh
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A Jane Austen Christmas
The month of December sees festivities held across the globe, but in 1775 a family in Steventon, England…
The Gauguin Atlas
Art historian Dr Linda Goddard characterises the identity of Paul Gauguin as both ‘carefully self-constructed’ and ‘constantly shifting’…
The World the American Revolution Made
The imperial American Revolution altered forever the lives of everyday people, ravaging communities and sending thousands of individuals…
Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin
‘This is not a book,’ the artist Paul Gauguin declared in the opening words of his unconventional memoir…
Ernest Gimson: Past, Present & Future
Annette Carruthers, Mary Greensted and Barley Roscoe discuss the life and legacy of Ernest Gimson on the 100th…
Younger Sons of Regency England (Part I) – The Story of Benjamin Smith
In Regency England, the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance,…
The Explorer’s Reward: A New Pevsner Guide to Central Leinster
The fifth publication in the Buildings of Ireland series, Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly explores a broad…
The Elizabethan Image by Sir Roy Strong – An Extract
In November 1558, Elizabeth I ascended the throne and was confronted with a politically, socially, and culturally fractured…
Bletchley Park and D-Day: A Q&A with David Kenyon
Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become…
Travels Through West Sussex – The Pevsner Perspective
Yale’s quest to update and expand Nikolaus Pevsner’s iconic guides continues with the new edition of Sussex: West. …
Nazi Germany and Modernist art
Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. During the war, the arts were closely…
A “Pocket” History of Women’s Lives (1660-1900)
Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, thimbles, keys, money, snuff – women and girls carried a startling array of things…
The Avant-garde and the New Typography
How did Jan Tschichold help to form the New Typography in the early twentieth century? Why were he…
How do economists forecast?
Although most people are not aware of it, forecasting plays a major role in everyday life. From choosing what…