Ernest Gimson: Past, Present & Future
Annette Carruthers, Mary Greensted and Barley Roscoe discuss the life and legacy of Ernest Gimson on the 100th…
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Architecture
The Explorer’s Reward: A New Pevsner Guide to Central Leinster
The fifth publication in the Buildings of Ireland series, Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly explores a broad…
Travels Through West Sussex – The Pevsner Perspective
Yale’s quest to update and expand Nikolaus Pevsner’s iconic guides continues with the new edition of Sussex: West. …
Fashion
A Jane Austen Christmas
The month of December sees festivities held across the globe, but in 1775 a family in Steventon, England…
The Elizabethan Image by Sir Roy Strong – An Extract
In November 1558, Elizabeth I ascended the throne and was confronted with a politically, socially, and culturally fractured…
A “Pocket” History of Women’s Lives (1660-1900)
Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, thimbles, keys, money, snuff – women and girls carried a startling array of things…
Photography
Lynda Nead explores post-war Britain, 1950s culture & The Tiger in the Smoke
To coincide with the launch of The Tiger in the Smoke by Lynda Nead – her third publication for…
Eclectic and Inclusive: Inside the Association of Art Historians Conference 2017
This year the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference will focus on inclusivity and diversity in the field…
Real and Magical – ‘diane arbus: in the beginning’ with Jeff L. Rosenheim & Karan Rinaldo
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the 20th century. Her photographs…
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A Jane Austen Christmas
The month of December sees festivities held across the globe, but in 1775 a family in Steventon, England…
The Gauguin Atlas
Art historian Dr Linda Goddard characterises the identity of Paul Gauguin as both ‘carefully self-constructed’ and ‘constantly shifting’…
Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin
‘This is not a book,’ the artist Paul Gauguin declared in the opening words of his unconventional memoir…