The Story of Stansted Park
Architecture is about many things – building style, social change, technological advance, but also the human needs and…
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Coral Reefs – beauty and wonder lie within superficially simple stories about their residents
Anyone who has watched one or two documentaries about coral reefs will have heard about cleaning stations. A…
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…
The art of writing and reading poetry
by Lucy Newlyn Creativity is mysterious, and cannot be learned or taught. But the craft of poetry is…
A 16th-century Portuguese Plan of the Badi’ Palace
Writing a book is hard, but finding centuries-old primary sources of Moroccan royal households can be even harder….
Fake Heritage for the Fake News Era
Heritage is a physical manifestation of days gone by – the remains of humankind’s past; from our buildings,…
Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols – An extract
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
The Making of Modern Art – An Introduction
How do you pack an illustrious writing career of over half a century into a single book? With…
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…
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…
Cuba’s Contribution to Combating COVID-19
In this blogpost, Helen Yaffe, author of, We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a…
A Jane Austen Christmas
The month of December sees festivities held across the globe, but in 1775 a family in Steventon, England…
‘What the did Crusades ever do for us?’ by Roger Crowley
What did the crusades ever do for us? This clash of medieval civilizations is defined by warfare, but over…
Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City
When last summer John Henderson published Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City, he little…
Nazi Germany and Modernist art
Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. During the war, the arts were closely…