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Little Histories for Home Learning

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…

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

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…

Harry Edward, Athletics and the Olympics

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…