Illustrating A Little History of Mathematics
How do you bring the history of mathematics to life through illustration? Kat Flint, illustrator of A Little History of Mathematics, chatted with author…
Learning Resources
Little Histories for Home Learning
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: the Olympic Games
As an aid to students, teachers and parents, we have constructed an A–Z of the World taken from E. H. Gombrich’s, A Little History…
Illustrating A Little History of Psychology
What does it take to illustrate a book about an abstract concept such as psychology? We caught up with Karin Rytter, illustrator of A…
Art History
The Story of Drawing in 6 Images
Drawing is personal and revealing. If you think of the painting or sculpture as the public performance, then drawing is where you can encounter…
Connick’s Adventures in Light and Colour in 6 Images
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…
Gilbert Spencer: a Life in 6 Landscapes
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…
Free Chapters
Women’s History Month: Uncovering Women’s History
For Women’s History Month 2025, we are sharing 10 free chapters from books uncovering women’s contributions to history. These extracts look at how women…
Christmas at Chartwell with Churchill
An extract from Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm by Katherine Carter. The magic of Christmas at Chartwell was its constancy….
Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers…