The Making of Modern Art – An Introduction
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An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Hannibal
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An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Galileo Galilei
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An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: the First World War
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An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: the Enlightenment
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An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Darius, King of Kings
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An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: the Crusades
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An Artistic Pottery – An Extract from Bernard Leach: Life and Work
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An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Brutus (and Julius Caesar)
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Bookshop of the Month – Celebrating Independent Bookshops
This month we’ve been looking back at some of the wonderful bookshops we’ve featured as our Bookshop of…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Alexander the Great
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An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich: Introduction
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Charles Rosen Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas A Short Companion – musical examples
These tracks feature pianist and author Charles Rosen performing extracts from several Beethoven piano sonatas, illustrating points made…
The Making of Modern Art – A Q&A with Michael Peppiatt
Chaotic, inventive, transgressive: Modernism is one of the most challenging yet exciting artistic movements in the history of…
Surviving Plague – an extract from Florence Under Siege
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…