December’s Bookshop of the Month – The Hepworth Wakefield
Rooted in the heart of Yorkshire, the Hepworth Wakefield is an art gallery, museum and creative space as…
Places
November’s Bookshop of the Month – The Forest Bookstore
At the heart of the Scottish Borders, the Forest Bookstore is an independent bookshop that was founded in…
October’s Bookshop of the Month – The Stripey Badger
This month’s Bookshop of the Month is The Stripey Badger, which stocks titles of all genres, book-related gifts…
Going to Church in Medieval England – an extract
Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the…
June’s Bookshop of the Month – Sam Read Bookseller
For June’s Bookshop of the Month, we headed to the Lake District to visit Sam Read Bookseller. From…
Palaces of Pleasure- Q&A with Lee Jackson
The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century’s growing industrialised class acquired the funds and the free…
May’s Bookshop of the Month – Good Press
This month’s Bookshop of the Month is Good Press, a Glasgow-based bookshop and art space specialising in independently…
Cromwell: A Killjoy Regime?
The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then…
Gainsborough in London | The Later Years
Susan Sloman, author of Gainsborough in London, introduces our blog readers to her long-awaited book, which follows the…
March’s Bookshop of the Month – Lindum Books
We’re heading over to Lindum Books for March’s Bookshop of the Month. Nestled on the historic Bailgate in…
January’s Bookshop of the Month – Drake the Bookshop
Our first Bookshop of the Month of 2021 is the newest independent bookshop on Teesside: Drake the Bookshop!…
December’s Bookshop of the Month – Aye-Aye Books
Our final Bookshop of the Month for 2020 is Aye-Aye Books, located in the Centre for Contemporary Arts,…
November’s Bookshop of the Month – Queen’s Park Books
We’re heading over to Queen’s Park Books for November’s Bookshop of the Month. Established in 2004 by the…
9 brilliant UK bookshops – as chosen by our authors
The author Neil Gaiman once said ‘A town isn’t a town without a bookstore’ and we couldn’t agree…
Understanding the US Election
Yesterday saw the first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the run up to the 2020…