
Quirky and Delightful Surprises: Pevsner Guides Revisit Hertfordshire
The new Pevsner Architectural Guide to Hertfordshire is an indispensable and eye-opening introduction to the wealth of fine buildings that…
The new Pevsner Architectural Guide to Hertfordshire is an indispensable and eye-opening introduction to the wealth of fine buildings that…
Is writing more your new year’s resolution? Whether you are finishing up a first draft or going through…
To celebrate the publication of The Classical Music Lover’s Companion To Orchestral Music, we asked Robert Philip, scholar,…
What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal…
The Paston Treasure – one of the most enigmatic paintings in Western art – has come back home to the…
The extravagant gardens of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest…
To mark the occasion of the opening of the New RA on 19 May 2018 and the celebration of…
We take a trip to the south coast this month to Barton Books in the Cornish town of…
To celebrate both International Women’s Day and the centenary of women’s suffrage in Britain, we’ve taken a look…
A notable highlight of the autumn-winter 2017 exhibition calendar is Gluck: Art and Identity at Brighton Museum and…
The Warner brothers formed one of the most iconic and powerful movie studios of the 20th century, delighting…
Emily Katz Anhalt— The ancient Greeks were open-minded without being tolerant. They didn’t devise the world’s first-ever democracy…
David J. Wasserstein— When ISIS forces took the Iraqi city of Mosul in the summer of 2014,…
An eagerly anticipated and newly updated Pevsner county guide to Yorkshire West Riding is published this autumn, written…
In Mob Town: A History of Crime and Disorder in the East End, John Bennett delves into four…