Flight to the Arctic: The Narrow Edge
The rufa red knot sandpiper and the common horseshoe crab, two relatively unassuming creatures, are the focus of a fascinating new book by Deborah Cramer, The…
Author Articles
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Cottages Ornés: The Charms of the Simple Life
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The Story of Drawing in 6 Images
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Six People Who Shaped Madrid
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Connick’s Adventures in Light and Colour in 6 Images
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Gilbert Spencer: a Life in 6 Landscapes
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What Stories Do Old Towns Tell?
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75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
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Tracking Down Eighteenth-Century Optimists and Pessimists – By Penelope J. Corfield
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Nazi Germany and Modernist art
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The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections – by Robin Simon
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Cottages Ornés: The Charms of the Simple Life
Read More -
The Story of Drawing in 6 Images
Read More -
Six People Who Shaped Madrid
Read More -
Connick’s Adventures in Light and Colour in 6 Images
Read More -
Gilbert Spencer: a Life in 6 Landscapes
Read More -
What Stories Do Old Towns Tell?
Read More -
75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
Read More -
Tracking Down Eighteenth-Century Optimists and Pessimists – By Penelope J. Corfield
Read More -
Nazi Germany and Modernist art
Read More -
The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections – by Robin Simon
Read More
Wellington & The Battle of Waterloo: A Timeline
This year marks the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo – Waterloo200 – a great turning point in British history that helped to establish…
The Narrow Edge: Tracking the Red Knot
Deborah Cramer has spent the last few years following a relatively unknown and unassuming shorebird, the red knot. Her new book, The Narrow Edge:…
The Liberation of the Camps: 8 May 1945, Theresienstadt
By May 1945 all of the concentration and extermination camps across Europe had been liberated. In this final piece in a blog series by the…
Guy de la Bedoyere on The Real Lives of Roman Britain
What was it like to live in Roman Britain? Much ink has been spilled on the archaeological remains that still exist in Britain today, such as Aquae…
Douwe Draaisma on Memory & Forgetting
We had the chance to sit down with renowned memory scholar, Douwe Draaisma, author of The Nostalgia Factory, to discuss his new publication Forgetting: Myths,…
The Liberation of the Camps: 15 April 1945, Bergen-Belsen
The Bergen-Belsen camp is perhaps one of the best-known of the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Second World War. It has been…
The Liberation of the Camps: 11 April 1945, Buchenwald
It has been over 70 years since the Nazi-led concentration and extermination camps were liberated by the allies. The atrocities that occurred during this dark chapter…