
Cottages Ornés: The Charms of the Simple Life
In this article, author Roger White introduces us to the architectural style of ‘cottage orné’, the subject matter of his book which has just…
In this article, author Roger White introduces us to the architectural style of ‘cottage orné’, the subject matter of his book which has just…
Drawing is personal and revealing. If you think of the painting or sculpture as the public performance, then drawing is where you can encounter…
How has women’s quest for health and beauty changed over the last four hundred years? And what has been its impact on gender definition, social inequality and the sense of aging?
by Luke Stegemann, cultural historian and author of Madrid: A New Biography — Unsurprisingly given its 1200 years of settlement and its role in…
In his lost memoir, Britain’s first Black Olympic medal winner details his experience of competing in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp. After winning Olympic…
In What the Greeks Did for Us, Tony Spawforth says ‘the modern Olympics are the most globally high-profile manifestation of ‘what the Greeks did…
Article by Neil Faulkner, author A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics. You might be forgiven for thinking the lighting of the Olympic torch…
Article by Neil Faulkner, author A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics. The modern Olympics purport to be a reconstruction of the ancient. In…
The life and work of Charles J. Connick (1875-1945), America’s foremost stained glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century, is…
Paul Gough’s illustrated biography of Gilbert Spencer is the first book to recount the life and career of a long-overlooked twentieth-century British artist. A…
Nicholas Orme’s The History of England’s Cathedrals is the first history of the life and activities of all English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury…
Published in 2021, Vladislav Zubok’s book Collapse is a major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to…
In The Georgians, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life – politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and…
First published in 2019, Arabs explores almost 3,000 years of Arab history. Tracing this history to the origins of the Arabic language, Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s…
Tourists have reimagined and reinvented the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Dickens’s London for more than 150 years. Take, for example, A Muppet Christmas…