Six People Who Shaped Madrid
by Luke Stegemann, cultural historian and author of Madrid: A New Biography — Unsurprisingly given its 1200 years of settlement and its role in…
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The Bloomsbury Photographs: 6 Images from the book
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Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
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Cottages Ornés: The Charms of the Simple Life
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The Story of Drawing in 6 Images
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Why I Became an X Troop Commando
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Six People Who Shaped Madrid
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On the road in Staffordshire: Photography for the Pevsner Guide to Staffordshire
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Connick’s Adventures in Light and Colour in 6 Images
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Gilbert Spencer: a Life in 6 Landscapes
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Art of the Grimoire: 7 Spell Books Through History
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Harry Edward, Athletics and the Olympics
In his lost memoir, Britain’s first Black Olympic medal winner details his experience of competing in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp. After winning Olympic…
What the Greeks Did for the Olympics
In What the Greeks Did for Us, Tony Spawforth says ‘the modern Olympics are the most globally high-profile manifestation of ‘what the Greeks did…
The Nazi Origins of the Olympic Torch – Olympic Myths Part 2
Article by Neil Faulkner, author A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics. You might be forgiven for thinking the lighting of the Olympic torch…
Amateurism, Medals and National Anthems – Olympic Myths Part 1
Article by Neil Faulkner, author A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics. The modern Olympics purport to be a reconstruction of the ancient. In…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: the Olympic Games
As an aid to students, teachers and parents, we have constructed an A–Z of the World taken from E. H. Gombrich’s, A Little History…
On the road in Staffordshire: Photography for the Pevsner Guide to Staffordshire
The revised Pevsner Architectural Guide to Staffordshire is available now. This expanded and updated guide to the architecture of Staffordshire completes the revised Buildings of…
Lesbian Women in Regency England – an extract from Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
For Pride Month 2024 we are sharing a series of extracts from our books which look at the history and experiences of LGBT people…
Gay Men in Regency England – an extract from Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
For Pride Month 2024 we are sharing a series of extracts from our books which look at the history and experiences of LGBT people…
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners – an extract from Backbone of the Nation
For Pride Month 2024 we are sharing a series of extracts from our books which look at the history and experiences of LGBT people…
Connick’s Adventures in Light and Colour in 6 Images
The life and work of Charles J. Connick (1875-1945), America’s foremost stained glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century, is…
A Georgian and Regency Reading List
If you want to find out more about the real Ton, marriage mart and social world that inspired Netflix’s Bridgerton and Jane Austen’s novels,…
Gilbert Spencer: a Life in 6 Landscapes
Paul Gough’s illustrated biography of Gilbert Spencer is the first book to recount the life and career of a long-overlooked twentieth-century British artist. A…
Illustrating A Little History of Psychology
What does it take to illustrate a book about an abstract concept such as psychology? We caught up with Karin Rytter, illustrator of A…
Why is NATO Important? – Sten Rynning
To mark the occasion of the 75th anniversary of NATO, we are sharing this extract from Sten Rynning’s new book, NATO: From Cold War…