Conversations: Understanding Protest
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Conversations: History of Slavery
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Architecture of the Islamic West: Innovative, Impressive and … Overlooked?
Some of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the Mosque of Córdoba, the ceiling of…
The Field of Cloth of Gold – 500th anniversary
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The Making of Modern Art – An Introduction
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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
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Mrs Delany: A Life by Clarissa Campbell Orr – An Extract
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Hellfire and Redemption – an extract from Sons of the Waves
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A Schoolmaster’s War – an extract from Harry Rée’s wartime diaries
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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
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Q&A with Nick Morley, illustrator of A Little History of Poetry
Each book in our Little Histories series is illustrated by a different contemporary artist-illustrator, whose specially commissioned work…