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Clive Aslet reflects on his years spent working as editor for Country Life Magazine, encountering changes in public attitude towards the complex history of the country house and the fresh perspective he wanted his book to provide.
What does it take to illustrate a cover for a book about books? We caught up with Nathan Burton, the illustrator of Retroland, to…
An Architectural History of Venice by Deborah Howard was first published in 1980. A revised version was released in 2002. This book is the…
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of mind like the “Oedipus complex,” or a replica…
How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone by Ben Street first came out in 2021, and has now been released in paperback. In…
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars by Helen Fry is due to be published on 26th September 2023. In this…
In this short Q and A, Caroline Evans, the author of Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness (published May 2023) reflects on…
Henry III rebuilt Westminster Abbey during his reign. He designed it from the start as a Coronation church. This extract from Henry III, Volume 2: Reform, Rebellion,…
Dr Christina Faraday considers ‘liveliness’ in Tudor art.
We’ve pulled together a reading list of blog posts and extracts for Earth Day 2024, engaging with perspectives and wider conversations about our relationship…
This extract from Sarah Foot’s book, Aethelstan: The First King of England, looks at the early life of King Æthelstan. You can find out…
Each book in our Little Histories series is illustrated by a different contemporary artist-illustrator, whose specially commissioned work is designed to enliven and enhance…
The Georgian era (1714–1830) was a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, the world’s first industrial revolution, and deep transformations…
Joseph Stalin led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953 in a reign marked by ruthless tyranny and the deaths of…
Murray Pittock’s Scotland is an engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years War to…