Our Bookshops of the Year 2018
What a year it’s been! We have journeyed the length and breadth of Britain to show you some…
Places
Bookshop of the Month – Pages of Hackney, London
This year’s final Bookshop of the Month is the delightful Pages of Hackney. East London’s beloved blue bookshop…
Bookshop of the Month – Yorkshire Sculpture Park Shop, Wakefield
For our penultimate 2018 Bookshop of the Month, we travelled up to Wakefield to visit the Yorkshire Sculpture Park…
Bookshop of the Month – Cornerstone Bookshop, Edinburgh
For October’s Bookshop of the Month, we went up to Edinburgh and down into the crypt of St….
Bookshop of the Month – West End Lane Books, West Hampstead
This month we popped over to the delightful West End Lane Books for our September Bookshop of the…
Bookshop of the Month – South London Gallery
We’re heading over the river to the South London Gallery (SLG) for June’s bookshop of month. Just a…
The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections – by Robin Simon
To mark the occasion of the opening of the New RA on 19 May 2018 and the celebration of…
Bookshop of the Month – News from Nowhere, Liverpool
For May’s bookshop of the month, we paid a visit to News from Nowhere, Liverpool’s radical and community…
Bookshop of the Month – Church House Bookshop, London
Our bookshop of the month for March is Church House Bookshop in Westminster, Church of England’s official bookshop….
The Ukrainian Night by Marci Shore, an extract
In The Ukrainian Night, historian Marci Shore examines the extraordinary events on the Maidan, Kiev’s central square, during the Winter…
Bookshop of the Month – Atkinson-Pryce Bookshop, Biggar
We’re heading north for our bookshop of the month for February! Atkinson-Pryce Books is based in Lanarkshire, Scotland….
Who Loves Ferguson? – An Extract from Mustafa Dikeç’s Urban Rage
Mustafa Dikeç’s Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded explores unrest in contemporary urban communities. Using examples from all over…
Bookshop of the Month – Lighthouse, Edinburgh
We headed up to Edinburgh for November’s Bookshop of the Month, and chatted to Mairi from Lighthouse, Edinburgh’s…
Lynda Nead explores post-war Britain, 1950s culture & The Tiger in the Smoke
To coincide with the launch of The Tiger in the Smoke by Lynda Nead – her third publication for…
What Are Brothers For? – Warner Bros, An Extract
The Warner brothers formed one of the most iconic and powerful movie studios of the 20th century, delighting…