
Allen W. Seaby: Art and Nature
Robert Gillmor and Martin Andrews
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Allen W. Seaby's life has been described as "a classic tale of Victorian self-improvement." But...

Crazy Quilts: A Beginner's Guide
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Textile artist and instructor Betty Fikes Pillsbury has won hundreds of awards for her homages to...

London. Portrait of a City
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London calling. This is a photographic journey through the history of this epic city. Samuel Johnson...

Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
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The Gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, spectres and sprites,...

The Arts and Crafts Garden
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The Arts and Crafts Movement espoused values of simplicity, craftsmanship and beauty quite counter...
The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain
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Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements...

A Fine Brother: The Life of Captain Flora Sandes
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The only woman to serve as a soldier in the First World War, the Englishwoman Flora Sandes became a...

Beautiful For Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician, Con-artist and Blackmailer
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Madame Rachel had everything: a Mayfair address, the title of 'purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen', a...

The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to...

The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
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'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories...