The Bloomsbury Photographs: 6 Images from the book
Through these six examples, author Maggie Humm highlights some of her favourite images included in the book
Virginia Woolf
An extract from ‘Shakespeare in Bloomsbury’ by Marjorie Garber
2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s first folio, without which many of his works would have been lost. This preservation…
Face Values: George Beresford’s photographs of Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell
As social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram become ubiquitous in our daily lives, you could be forgiven for thinking that the act…
Clive James – in Conversation
‘My response to books has improved throughout my life, until now, finally, I am fit to be a proper student.’ In August 2015 Yale…
The Year That Changed Everything in Literature
John Sutherland’s A Little History of Literature introduces great classics from across the ages: Beowulf, Shakespeare, Don Quixote, the Romantics, Dickens, Moby Dick, The Waste…
The First Modern Woman Artist: Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was a groundbreaking painter whose often-overlooked place in modernism forces us to reconsider our understanding of art in the early twentieth…
Virginia Woolf’s Soho: Extract from ‘Nights Out’ by Judith Walkowitz
Judith Walkowitz, author of Nights Out, a new book on the history of Soho, discusses Virginia Woolf’s interactions with London’s sophisticated (and subversive) district….