Bookshop of the Month – National Portrait Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery Bookshop is our bookshop of the month for July! Housing one of the most extensive portrait collections in the world,…
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Bookshop of the Month – Libreria Bookshop, London
For February’s bookshop of the month, we make our way to Shoreditch, London – where Libreria calls home. Recently opened, with bright and exquisite…
Germaine Krull: Catalogue to the Show
“Germaine, you and I are the greatest photographers of our time, I in the old sense you in the modern one.” –Man Ray Germaine…
Fashion Underground: Introducing Susanne Bartsch
Susanne Bartsch has been the queen of New York City nightlife since the 1980s when she first became famous for spectacular parties, where a…
Bookshop of the Month: The National Theatre Bookshop
At the very heart of London’s South Bank – famous for its striking Brutalist concrete architecture – you will find our Bookshop of the…
Bookshop of the Month: Heywood Hill
At 10 Curzon Street in Mayfair, London, you will find Heywood Hill – our bookshop of the month for May. The bookshop boasts that…
Paul Durand-Ruel: Gambling on Impressionism
No figure, aside from the artists themselves, had such a profound and significant impact on Impressionism than Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922). Despite now being one…
Bookshop of the Month: Newham Bookshop
Since 1978 Newham Bookshop has been serving communities in East London, providing a fabulous selection of educational and children’s books, to those on history, politics, and…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 29
‘Many myths and ‘factoids’ appear on the web and in print. They are often incorrect…’ Throughout this month, Lee Jackson reveals the background to Dirty…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 28
‘In the previous arrangement, no-one cared how many friends and family shared a room – nor even pigs. The cost of accommodation for any…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 27
‘The capital was increasingly blighted by darker, longer visitations of gloom; and doctors were able to collect more and more data on the public…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 25
‘The idea that women – particularly respectable women – might want or need purpose-built public toilets, on the streets of the capital, was considered a nonsense. Those in…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 19
‘Flanking one side of the yard were a score or so of upreared dustcarts, and on the other side, extending almost from the outer…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 18
‘Fog also crept indoors. Court-rooms, museums, theatres and art galleries could become filled with a choking haze. Perhaps the worst such incident occurred at…
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 16
‘Respectable householders and shopkeepers regularly wrote letters to the parish authorities, describing disused doorways or entrances being used as ‘urinals’, citing the offence to…