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...
How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
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'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming...
Jason and Medea
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'The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them,...
Greek Mythology
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
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'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful...
Socrates' Defence
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'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account...