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Welcome to Unicorn Publishing Group’s Spring 2018 catalogue Unicorn Publishing Group continues to grow and prosper around the world. Our new office in Chicago already has four acquisitions and our recent partnership to promote contemporary Chinese art, backed by the Chinese government, was announced at the Beijing International Book Fair. The first monograph in the Unicorn Chinese Artists series, Abiding Buddha: The Sculpture of Tranquillity is a Spring 2018 title and headlines our catalogue. Other Spring ’18 feature titles from our cultural history imprint Unicorn are On the Seven Deadly Sins, Kenneth Bakers’ follow-up to On the Burning of Books; Fabergé: His Masters and Artisans, a look at the artists and craftsmen in Fabergé’s atelier; the second volume of Stanley Spencer’s autobiography, Progress of the Soul; Stefan Buczacki’s Earth to Earth: A Natural History of Churchyards; our RSPB title Swifts in the Tower; Mike Read’s book about Britain’s blue plaques, The Writing on the Wall; and Up in the Air, an Art Solos monograph by the aerial photographer Tommy Clarke. Our military history imprint Uniform leads with Reaching for the Sky, featuring defining moments in the RAF’s 100-year history; The Kaiser’s Dawn exposing the top secret 1918 plot to kill Kaiser Wilhelm and volume three of the history of the Victoria Cross, For Valour. Unicorn Sales & Distribution markets not just our titles but those of client publishers such as the Imperial War Museum, the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Royal Armouries. The latter feature The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship, while IWM Publishing release London at War. As ever, we hope you enjoy owning and gifting our books as much as we enjoy publishing and marketing them. Lord Strathcarron Chairman
The Unicorn Chinese Arts Series We are proud to announce our partnership with Intron International Cultural Development to publish twenty monographs per year featuring contemporary Chinese artists and to market the books, art and artists throughout world. Inspired by Unicorn’s Art Solos series for exhibiting British and American artists, the new Unicorn Chinese Artists series will feature leading Chinese contemporary artists whose works are not yet well known enough outside China. With Chinese government backing from the China National Publications Import & Export Corporation (CNPIEC), and supported by Jiangxi Fine Art Publishing House, Shandong Fine Art Publishing House, and Beijing Song Ya Feng Publishing House, the new Unicorn Chinese Artists series was formally signed and sealed at the Beijing International Book Fair. Lord Strathcarron, Unicorn Publishing Group’s chairman, told guests that this cultural co- operation between contemporary Eastern and Western art worlds is an idea whose time had come: ‘Unicorn and Intron are forging a new approach that puts art for art’s sake centre stage and lets the labels take care of themselves.’ Accepting the International Publishing Elite award from CNPIEC he added: ‘On behalf of us all at Unicorn we are very proud to be publishing pioneers with our new partners in China.’ Dong Zhang, Intron’s general manager, was equally enthusiastic about this pioneering new venture: ‘We believe the richness of Chinese contemporary art is waiting for the world to discover and enjoy. The Unicorn Chinese Art series will become the largest worldwide Chinese art series in the coming years. We are delighted to be making this significant cultural step with Unicorn.’ The Unicorn Chinese Artists books will be full size monographs priced at around US$30.00 in local currencies and marketed around the world.
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Hardback 128 pp 270 x 225 mm BIC Code: A, AGB Colour images throughout 978-1-911604-34-1 June 2018 £25.00
Abiding Buddha
The Sculpture of Tranquillity Xu Bin Jueyi Introduction by Edward Lucie Smith Xu Bin Jueyi’s sculpture breaks nearly a hundred years of stasis in Buddha sculpting. Using contemporary materials such as metal, resin and wood, Jueyi literally reshapes the aesthetic for Buddha imagery while retaining the compassion and tranquillity that lies behind it. Through the study and sketching of Chinese and Tibetan natural scenery and folk customs, the artist has gained an in depth understanding of the supreme place of spirituality in Buddhist followers’ lives. The purity and serenity of their quest, and Xu Bin’s own quest, are shown in the sculptor’s creative energy which inspire their quests for peace and serenity. The resulting Buddha sculptures bring together contemporary and traditional images and ideas. Simple and clear, they display a minimalism in keeping with the Buddha’s life example, while inviting the viewer to delve deeper into the Buddha’s expansive teachings. Xu Bin Jueyi is from Nantong in Jiangsu. He has had a passion for art from childhood, and spent many years travelling the world to well-known mountains and rivers, learning from and responding to nature. He has created a large number of sculptures, paintings and photographs. Representative sculptural works include: the I Ching series (Heaven and Earth Tai Hexagram), the Tibet series (Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Pilgrims), Buddhas (Considering the Fracture series). He blends Chinese and Western cultures to create his own unique artistic style. Edward Lucie-Smith is generally regarded as one of the most prolific and widely published writers on art. A number of his art books, among them Movements in Art since 1945, Visual Arts of the 20th Century, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Art Today are used as standard texts throughout the world. He is the author of six art books for Unicorn.
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On the Seven Deadly Sins KENNETH BAKER In this fascinating book Kenneth Baker explores how the Seven Deadly Sins – PRIDE, ANGER, SLOTH, ENVY, AVARICE, GLUTTONY and LUST – have shaped history from the Greek and Roman Civilisations, through their heyday in the Middle Ages, when sinners really believed they could go to Hell for all eternity, to the secular world of today, where they are still an alluring and destructive force. Why do Sinners’ ways prosper? And why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? …Oh, the sots and thralls of lust Do in spare hours more thrive than I that
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Hardback 304 pp 270 x 230 mm BIC Code: HB, AC, WHC, D 155 illustrations 978-1-911604-13-6 April 2018 £30.00
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
On The Seven Deadly Sins Kenneth Baker In this fascinating book Kenneth Baker explores how the Seven Deadly Sins – Pride, Anger, Sloth, Envy, Avarice, Gluttony and Lust – have shaped history from the Greek and Roman Civilisations, through their heyday in the Middle Ages, when sinners really believed they could go to Hell for all eternity, to the secular world of today, where they are still an alluring and destructive force. Today most sinners are punished in this world not the next: • Black Pride and Gay Pride have made tens of millions more understood and more accepted, but the overweening pride of certain leaders – Hubris – has led to wars and devastation: Hitler in Russia; the Japanese at Pearl Harbour; Saddam Hussein in Kuwait; and Blair and Bush in Iraq. • Anger, when righteous, can be a virtue, which helped to end the slave trade in the 19th century and to expose child abuse today, but there is still personal anger in domestic violence and Daesh terrorism. • Sloth can be an amiable weakness as Tennyson said, ‘Ah why should life all labour be’, but the rewards go to the energetic. • Envy is the mainstay of the global advertising industry encouraging everyone to improve their lives, but it is also a secret vice, a self-destroying morbid appetite. • Avarice, has led to better living conditions for many people but also to the Great Depression, the financial collapse of 2008, and to 1,800 billionaires with the combined wealth of US $6.48 trillion.
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• Gluttony is not a sin but a destructive ailment leading to obesity, bottle-noses, bleary eyes, grog-blossoms and breath like a blowlamp.
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disgust and envy. Other sins feed into this resentment. A glutton can become enraged if his appetite is not met; the lecher can be inflamed by rejection and revenge can be both a consequence of anger and an impetus to it. Anger is also a slippery sin since there are occasions when anger is righteous. In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ referring possibly to Cain who killed his brother Abel, declared that anger could lead to exclusion from the grace of God. ‘Whosoever is angry with his brother, without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgement.’ The key phrase is ‘without a cause’ because it implies that if anger has a well-rooted reason to right wrongs, reveal cruelty, resist oppression, unveil hypocrisy, and puncture pomposity, then it is not a sin. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries righteous anger played a part in the campaign to end slavery. Today it is also part of the response to human trafficking and child abuse. But St Augustine inveighed against it as it could get out of hand. ‘It is better to deny entrance to just and reasonable anger than to admit it. Once it is admitted it is driven out again only with difficulty. It comes in as a little twig and in less than no time it grows big and becomes a beam.’ Wrath can claim some precedence in the list of sins since God himself fell victim to it. The wrath of God was directed against man because the very man he created disobeyed him. This Original Sin was so grave that it doomed all mankind to eternal damnation. But the God of Love prevailed over the God of Wrath as He mitigated the doom of all humanity by sending His own son to earth to redeem their sins.
• Lust that demands immediate A gratification is clearly still a sin, whether Paris’ abduction of Helen of Troy, or websites that encourage marital infidelity, or the fate of many politicians, as Kipling said, ‘For the sins they do by two and a year ago, in 1936, and has already sold 51,000 copies. Its goal is to instil in two, they must pay for one by one.’ the children of the Third Reich a distrust and animosity towards Jews. Verse Wrath from The Table of the Deadly Sins, Hieronymous Bosch, c. 1500.
nger is a multi-layered sin. It encompasses: indignation at not getting a table at ones favourite restaurant; the frustration of getting stuck in the longest passport queue; the annoyance of being behind a very slow car in the fast lane leading to road rage; the loss of self-control that ends up in a pub brawl; the hatred and resentment in a marriage or relationship resulting in verbal or physical abuse; vindictiveness when proper respect is not shown; hooliganism on the football terraces; sudden outbursts of fury; and an overmastering passion verging on madness such as that which destroyed King Lear, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens Anger is very much alive and deadly in the real world. Owing to the wide range of destructive weapons now available, terrorist anger is now the deadliest of sins. Terrorists are driven by their hatred of non-believers, and their anger is manipulated by militant radical preachers, by friends who have seen the ‘light’ and by a belief in martyrdom through killing. No race or religion has suffered so much hatred and anger directed against it as the Jews. In his speeches, Hitler used anger to arouse the hatred of his followers, which lead to the murder of six million Jews in the Nazi extermination camps. Revolutionaries are motivated by anger. Their anger is directed against the status quo, the unequal distribution of wealth, the exclusiveness of establishments, the corruption of the ruling elite, the arrogance of power, and the conspicuous consumption of the wealthy. G.K. Chesterton, described the French Jacobins as ‘ragged men dead for an idea.’ But revolution, as experienced in England, can have a long fuse of slow burning resentment starting with the peculiar English vices of grudge and sulk which lead on to
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ANGER IN ANCIENT GREECE
The tragic trilogy of The Oresteia by Aeschylus in 458 BC tells of the generational sins of the House of Atreus, where one killing leads to another. King Agamemnon, the head of the family, kills his eldest daughter, Iphigenia, to placate the goddess Artemis and make the wind change so that his fleet can sail to Troy. On his return to Greece Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra, angry at the death of her daughter decides that she and her lover Aegisthus will kill Agamemnon and his Trojan concubine Cassandra. Then Agamemnon’s son Orestes decides to kill his mother Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. The curse of the House of Atreus demands that blood should follow blood in a cycle passing from one generation to the next, leading to the family being destroyed by revenge.
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FEMALE REVENGE THE MURDER OF ALBOIN, KING OF THE LOMBARDS, 28 JUNE 573 The reign of the founder was splendid and transient; and before he could regulate his new conquests, Alboin fell a sacrifice to domestic treason and female revenge. In a palace near Verona, which had not been erected for the barbarians, he feasted with the companions of his arms: intoxication was the reward of valour, and the king himself was tempted by appetite, or vanity, to exceed the ordinary measure of his intemperance. After draining many capacious bowls of Rhaetian or Falernian wine, he called for the skull of Cunimund, the noblest and most precious ornament of his sideboard. The cup of victory was accepted with horrid applause by the circle of the Lombard chiefs. ‘Fill it with wine,’ exclaimed the inhuman conqueror; ‘fill it to the brim; carry this goblet to the queen, and request in my name that she would rejoice with her father.’ In an agony of grief and rage, Rosamond [the daughter of Cunimund] had strength to utter, ‘Let the will of my lord be obeyed!’ and touched it with her lips, pronounced a silent imprecation, that the insult should be washed away in the blood of Alboin. Some indulgence might be due to the resentment of a daughter, if she had not already violated the duties of a wife. Implacable in her enmity, or inconstant in her love, the queen of Italy had stooped from the throne to the arms of a subject; and Helmichis, the king’s armour-bearer, was the secret minister of her pleasure and revenge. Against the proposal of the murder, he could no longer urge the scruples of fidelity or gratitude; but Helmichis trembled when he revolved the danger as well as the guilt, when he recollected the matchless strength and intrepidity of a warrior, whom he had so often attended in the field of battle. He pressed, and obtained, that one of the bravest champions of the Lombards should be associated to the enterprise, but no more than a promise of secrecy could be drawn from the gallant Peredeus; the mode of seduction employed by Rosamond betrays her shameless insensibility both to honour and love. She supplied the place of one of her female attendants who was beloved by Peredeus, and contrived some excuse for darkness and silence, till she could inform her companion that he had enjoyed the queen of the Lombards, and that his own death, or the death of Alboin, must be the consequence of such treasonable adultery. In this alternative, he chose rather to be the accomplice, than the victim of Rosamond whose undaunted spirit was incapable of fear or remorse. She expected, and soon found a favourable moment, when the king, oppressed with wine, had retired from the table to his afternoon slumbers. His faithless spouse was anxious for his health and repose: the gates of the palace were shut, the arms removed, the attendants dismissed, and Rosamond, after lulling him to rest by her tender caresses, unbolted the chamber-door and urged
(we know the mnemonic virtues of rhyme) and color engravings (we know how
images are) collaborate in this veritable textbook of hatred. This book is lavishly illustratedeffective from Take any page: for example, page 5. Here I find, not without justifiable bewilderment, this didactic poem – ‘The German is a proud man who knows Medieval manuscripts to Picasso, how to work and struggle. Jews detest him because he is so handsome and and Kenneth Baker has drawnenterprising’ on his – followed by an equally informative and explicit quatrain: ‘Here’s the Jew, recognizable to all, the biggest scoundrel in the whole kingdom. He knowledge of cartoons down the ages to thinks he’s wonderful, and he’s horrible.’ The engravings are more astute: the German is a Scandinavian, eighteen-year-old athlete, plainly portrayed as a include a few by Gillray, Rowlandson, worker; the Jew is a dark Turk, obese and middle-aged. Another sophistic feature Bateman, Eric Gill and today Peter is that the German is clean-shaven and the Jew, while bald, is very hairy. … What can one say about such a book? Personally I am outraged, less for Brookes. Israel’s sake than for Germany’s, less for the offended community than for the The Vengeance of Orestes, Vera Willoughby, 1925
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Woodcut vignette of Alboin, Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493
offensive nation. I don’t know if the world can do without German civilisation, but I do know that its corruption by the teachings of a hatred is a crime. Printed in Sur, May 1937, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Translated by S.J. Levine
Anger Cartoon by H.M.Bateman, date???
Kenneth Baker, Lord Baker of Dorking CH, is a British politician and a former Conservative MP having served in the Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher and John Major as Environment Secretary, Education Secretary and Home Secretary. He has previously written five poetry anthologies for Faber, five books on the history of cartoons including George III: A Life in Caricature and George IV: A Life in Caricature, his memoirs, The Turbulent Years, and most recently On the Burning of Books published by Unicorn in 2016.
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Niin sanottu suolatuoli. Kultaa, rubiineja, timantteja ja emalia. Ludvig XVI -tyylisen tuolin selkänoja ja istuin on koristettu emalimaalauksin niin, että ne muistuttavat hienoa brokadia. Fabergé, ei mestarinleimaa. Pietari, A desk clock in gold, nephrite, diamonds, seed noin vuodelta 1900. pearls, and enamel. Fabergé, The India Early Minshall Collection Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1908-17. Ludvig XVI -tyylisen suolatuolin Inventory No. 18008. Height luonnos Henrik Wigströmin 15.3 albumista. cm. The Roman numerals Yksiyiskokoelma XXV indicate this was a 25th anniversary gift. Courtesy of The Mcferrin Collection
Nesessääri. Monivärikultaa, kullattua hopeaa ja emalia. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, Pietari, 1908–17. Leveys 12 cm. Ristausnumero 22549. Alkuperäisen omistajan monogrammi JA. Luonnos nesessääristä löytyy Henrik Wigströmin albumista.
A vari-coloured gold and silver gilt necessaire, with guilloché enamelling and rose-cut diamonds. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, c. 1910. Length 10 cm.
A gold and enamel bonbonnière. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1913. Inventory No. 24307. Diameter 4.5 cm. London import marks. The drawing for this particular item is found in the first album of Henrik Wigström sketches under the production number 13279. The Fabergé Museum, St Petersburg
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A small bonbonnière fashioned in the shape of a doge’s cap (corno ducale), in yellow enamelled gold, with rubies, emeralds, diamonds, and seed pearls. Fabergé, St Petersburg, 1899-1908. Inventory No. 6659. Height 3.6 cm. Courtesy of The Woolf Family Collection
A circular “cushion form” gold and translucent rose enamel bell-push by Wigström in Rococo style, uncharacteristic for the master goldsmith. The push button is a moonstone. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1908-17. French import marks. Diameter 5 cm.
A pill-box in the shape of a doge’s cap, with a translucent oyster enamel, engraved, and with gold bands set with rose-cut diamonds, sapphires, seed pearls, emeralds, and square-cut rubies. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, c. 1908. Inventory No. 15741. London import marks from 1908. Height 3.5 cm.
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Empirenojatuolin muotoinen makeisrasia. Kultaa, emalia. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, Pietari, 1911. Korkeus 4,8 cm. Kuva Larry Stein / The FORBES Collection ©, New York
Empirenojatuolin luonnos Henrik Wigströmin albumista.
A matchbox in gold, moss agate, and diamonds. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1899-1908. Length 8.7 cm.
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A cigarette case in gold, silver gilt, diamonds, and enamel. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1908-17. Inventory No. 21724. Length 9 cm. London import marks.
A matchbox in silver gilt and enamel. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, early 20th century. Length 5.4 cm. Sotheby’s
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n the death of Mikhail Perkhin in 1903, Henrik Wigström became Fabergé’s head workmaster, and he retained this role until the company was wound up in 1917. Prior to 1903, for nearly two decades, Wigström had been Perkhin’s chief assistant and right-hand man. During his fourteen years as head workmaster, Wigström was responsible for the most demanding segment of the House of Fabergé’s production. Altogether twenty of the fifty Imperial Easter eggs were made under his direction. It was on Wigström’s watch that the company enjoyed some of its greatest triumphs. The name of Fabergé was by this time well-known and hugely respected, and the company’s luxury gift items were popular almost all over the world.
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Henrik Wigström was born in the Finnish coastal town of Tammisaari1 on October 2nd, 1862. His father August Wig, later Wigström, had the good fortune to be taken up as a bonded fisherman by the Mayor of Tammisaari. Being the mayor’s fisherman did not pay well, and consequently August took part-time work as a housepainter and member of the town’s night watch. The poor wages were compensated somewhat by being employed by the most influential figure in the town, and when the position of parish sexton became vacant in 1853, August Wigström got the job. The new sexton had been in the post only a year or two when he was widowed, with two young daughters to care for. So as to be able to work to make ends meet, August had to find a new bride. A year on from the death of his first wife, August married again, to Wendla Forsman (1824-1910). The Forsmans had a long history of work in handcrafts, and for several generations had been blacksmiths in the Billnäs area, close to Karjaa. This union produced four more children: Wendla Victoria (1860), the future master goldsmith Henrik Immanuel (1862), August Emil (1864), and Ernst Wilhelm (1868). 1 Ekenäs in Swedish, which was and still is the dominant local tongue of the town.
A column-form desk clock, in vari-coloured gold, pearls, marble, enamel. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, c. 1900. Height 21cm. The clock movement bears the signature of H. Moser & Cie., No. 25479. Private collection. Photo: Wartski, London.
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The young master goldsmith Henrik Wigström. Wigström family album
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Henrik Wilhelm (Boy) Wigström, his father’s assistant and the future master goldsmith.
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The Wigström children. From left to right: Yrjö, Henrik Wilhelm (Boy), Hellin, and Lyyli. The children grew up living next to their father’s studio, and both Lyyli and Henrik joined the family firm. Wigström family album
Henrik Wigström becomes Fabergé’s head workmaster On the death of Perkhin, ownership of the workshop passed to Wigström, with no money changing hands. It is not clear precisely how this all occurred, but we do know that Wigström had no need to go into debt to get into the driving seat. The matter was discussed extensively among Wigström’s professional colleagues, perhaps with just a dash of envy surfacing here and there. From the perspective of the House of Fabergé, there was no other solution in sight – Henrik Wigström was the right individual to take over the reins at the workshop and to become the head workmaster. We can also be quite sure that Perkhin’s descendants were not left high and dry. Undoubtedly, they were compensated for the loss without Fabergé making any great song and dance about it. Henrik Wigström was 41 when he stepped into the head workmaster’s shoes. It goes without saying that this brought a host of changes to his life and that of his family. The family moved into the Fabergé office complex, to the apartment set aside for the head workmaster. The residence faced the workshop wing of the building across the courtyard, but from the kitchen door
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Henrik Wigström. I explained what it was I’d been doing for Jaggard. 2 Wigström said he knew the firm and the work it did. He said his workshop needed help in that line.
During the nine years that Henrik Wigström was with Elfström, he developed into a gifted goldsmith, taking his journeyman’s papers and thereafter preparing for his master’s examination. By this stage, the need arose to find work that was more in keeping with his skills and with a better salary, for the young journeyman had encountered his destiny, in the shape of 18-year-old Ida Johanna Turunen (1866-1911) from Kuopio. Ida had left Finland for St Petersburg four years earlier, in search of work as a nanny. It is possible she arrived on a vessel owned by her father, Pietari Turunen, who was the skipper of a boat hauling cargo on the lake waterways from Kuopio to Petersburg. The banns were read out for the future bride and groom in the Finnish Lutheran congregation of St Mary’s in Petersburg, where the two of them had first met and where they were eventually married in October 1884. Ida and Henrik had four children: Anna Lyyli (b. 1885), Hellin Maria (b.1888), Henrik Wilhelm (b. 1889), and Yrjö (b. 1891). Of this quartet, the daughter Lyyli and son Henrik worked in their father’s workshop after they finished their schooling. In 1884, Henrik Wigström got to know an important person in his life: master goldsmith Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin. The two men were almost of an age – Perkhin was the older by barely two years. Perkhin saw in Wigström both an adept worker and a kindred spirit, and he offered him a position in his newly-established workshop. The pair worked side by side for all of nineteen years. Quite apart from the strong professional bond that emerged, the two families became close: Mikhail Perkhin and his wife Tatiana Vladimirovna were godparents to the Wigström children.
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Double-sided “firescreen” photo-frame in vari-coloured gold, platinum, pearls, and enamel. The two faces show portraits of Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1908-17. Height 18 cm. Courtesy of The McFerrin Collection Photo: A la Vieille Russie
A miniature pendant egg that also serves as a small perfume dispenser. Vari-coloured gold, “mecca stone”, diamonds, enamel. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1899-1908. Courtesy of The McFerrin Collection
Another miniature pendant egg that also serves as a small perfume dispenser. Vari-coloured gold, amethyst, diamonds, enamel. Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, c. 1910. Height 2.5 cm. Courtesy of The McFerrin Collection
And so it was that in October 1915, at 8 o’clock on the Monday morning, I stepped through the double doors of the world-famous jewellers Fabergé with the firm intention of starting work as an engraver under the tutelage of Master Henrik Wigström. The Wigström workshop was on the second floor. The main studio was spacious and well-lit. There were eight workbenches, and a total of 28 journeyman craftsmen. I was initially given the simpler ornamentation and engraving tasks. Thereafter, I gradually began to get pattern work, models drawn by the artists. It was often gold cigarette cases, on which I had to engrave simple or more complex designs, that would then be enamelled in a variety of colours. Sitting opposite me was an older man, a Russian engraver in his late forties, Apashikov by name. He had been with the firm for all of 23 years. Apashikov gave me advice and hints whenever I needed them. Around the walls there were plaster casts of all the ornamental flowers, and leaves, and whorls and suchlike, all larger than in life, so that you could examine the designs and patterns in greater detail. Workmaster Wigström showed me a few cigarette cases and asked if I thought I was qualified to do the work. Yes, but I am not able to draw such things. Well now, our artists will see to that. I told him I had done similar work for Jaggard, and he said he knew all about that. Consequently, they were not afraid to give me quite demanding pieces to work on from an early stage. Further, the salary I received, within a couple of months of my starting there, was twice that of the master at my former employer. Jaggard’s asked me to come and explain to them what the reason was. I reported that I was doing the same work as before, but it was more valuable. The golden rule was that there should be no haste, to ensure that the results would be exactly as required. Fabergé’s clients were of the most demanding type: princes and dukes, the aristocracy, foreign monarchs, potentates, and very wealthy patrons. Just before I arrived at Fabergé, they had delivered a massive consignment of jewels and other items for the court of the Siamese Royal Family. These pieces must have cost a veritable fortune. On one occasion, a certain French princess wished to give her beau a suitably magnificent cigarette case. She travelled far and wide and could not find a maker to match her very specific demands. The case had to be of gold,
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Jalmari Haikonen had worked for the well-known engravers A. Jaggard, initially as an apprentice, and subsequently took his journeyman’s examination in this firm.
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Hardback 272 pp 270 x 230 mm BIC Code: WCP, WCR, AFKG, AC, HB 150 coour images 978-1-911604-20-4 May 2018 £30.00
Fabergé
His Masters and Artisans Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm Carl Fabergé (1846-1920), jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court, enjoys iconic stature in the history of the goldsmiths’ art. His life’s work is still celebrated today, a century after the forced closure of his company in St Petersburg, capital of the then crumbling Russian Empire. Wherever Fabergé’s works are shown, whether at exhibitions or in salerooms, they delight and inspire. However no man is an island. Without a host of creative talents behind the scenes – designers, master goldsmiths and silversmiths – Carl Fabergé’s business could not have flourished. Fabergé: His Masters and Artisans lifts these craftsmen into the limelight; craftsmen who not only deserve our closer attention, but the captivating stories of their lives and careers add appreciably to what is known of the working processes at Fabergé. Featured here are names – familiar from the maker’s marks on countless Fabergé treasures – of men such as Erik Kollin, August Holmström, Henrik Wigström, Viktor Aarne, Gabriel Nykänen, and many others. The book also explores jewellery manufacturing methods, touches on the company’s wellknown and influential customers, as well as, of course, showcasing Fabergé’s very recognisable style and creativity. It contains much new information, including reminiscences, letters, and personal photographs alongside detailed images of Fabergé works. Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm Ph.D., is the great-granddaughter of St. Petersburg goldsmith Alexander Tillander, a supplier to the Russian imperial court. She has been researching the oeuvre of the Russian jewellers for many years and her doctoral dissertation was on the award system of imperial Russia. She is a lecturer and consultant for art exhibitions and has written several art publications and books, including Jewels of Imperial St Petersburg published by Unicorn in 2013.
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Hardback 256 pp 240 x 196 mm BIC Code: AGB, BGFA, BGA 100+ colour images 978-1-910787-26-7 May 2018 £30.00
Progress of the Soul Stanley Spencer
Edited by John Spencer Progress of the Soul is the second volume of Stanley’s complete letters and writings, charting his return to Cookham at the end of the First World War, his period of adjustment to life in his beloved ‘village in Heaven’, his marriage to artist Hilda Carline and his disastrous relationship with his second wife, Patricia Preece in the early 1930s. During this time he produced some of his most famous paintings, including the great murals at the Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere and The Resurrection, Cookham, yet he continued to write prolifically. His letters to Hilda and extensive writings reveal his innermost thoughts on love, religion and life – and offer a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the greatest artists of modern times.
Also available: Looking to Heaven 978-1910065-59-4 HB £30.00
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Tommy Clarke Up in the air
Hardback 128 pp 270 x 225 mm BIC Code: A, AJ, AJB, AJC Colour images throughout 978-1-911604-27-3 April 2018 £25.00
Up in the Air Tommy Clarke Up in the Air is a culmination of six years hanging out of helicopters, photographing locations from California to Australia’s Shark Bay and Utah to St Tropez. The work ranges from idyllic beach scenes in Gran Canaria to the abstract landscape of Utah’s salt lakes, and shows his progression in style from documentary travel photography to abstract art. In 2015 Tommy was named International Landscape Photographer of the Year. He has exhibited work at the Affordable Art Fair and the Other Art Fair, and his aerial photographs have been featured in GQ, The Times, Conde Nast Traveller and the Wall Street International. London based photographer Tommy Clarke travels the world taking aerial photographs. Growing up on the south coast of England with many childhood holidays at the beach, he developed a deep interest of the interaction between water and land and how people connect with that location. But it wasn’t until he was living in Sydney that he embarked on his first aerial shoot over Bondi Beach, capturing the colourful surfboards strewn across the beach. dolorepro eliquae. Beatqui omnient omnisqui tentis idebiscitia accatemolut et et mil mo eum sunt aut fugiam, quam sed quas es doluptaque lam fuga. Solupienimus sit et re volupta quid que non ratinisti se nos et, ut venitem rem suntur? Eptat aute cum animus nis si consequaeped maxima nobis expliquia simillestiis samus quo tempore mporum auta derum eum idipsamus sunt eturis ea doluptatis mo dolum et alique simolo imus aut rehenihilit rerae dolutet etur raerrum qui que cor aspeditas eos et dolectetur sit reperfe rferfer feritatqui nonsend igendi ommodi ut et eribus inus aut aut que sum dolor acepro tendae ma nonectati doluptaque voloria voloreh entiore, eos magnis dis quatam eos ut voluptat ullaboresto quassum aut ad modiam ut quibus sum hit et ommoluptius experib usdaeperis imusdaepel ipid essum audaepro et pratem. Rectemquam ipieturias qui saperibus alit occus quam di iur ad est que duciand igniste mpostibus sit inctemolo temolor moluptasped el int discium inciam et ullor aut ati cori doluptas sam sim vendi omnis consequis nimi, susam eturesti odipsum fugit quam faceatestius eati dolupiet quatiatiae poresti orumet utas maxim repudia doleste reped quae natem qui vollaces del ipicimped quiatem. Mus acestiur apiet volenima si cuptibus, te a il et hit, ommossi mporem quod eaqui tem core culpa voluptatia si dolla dolupta ectempo ruptatur accupic idenihilla quis ad quiate quaerum fugitium aut venit labo. Luptatur, ipsam quis repedis nobit quis aut doluptatiust ut lamentibus voluptis et as molest, sundias endesequate milland ucimus intem. Ape sant, temporeribus cum velit, to quiassiti con ea qui recto issequid esedipsam, que nimi, si qui de nos iur aut ut officil ium alit mosam sitatibus nobis estias utestrum doloribus magni vollabores modis num sit, corestia nihit et reptatiunt. Offic to id quatemque nus, officiisciet velitam cus aut prae pelest expeliquid que plabor remperunt por si aperem quat. Arumque occatqu iberum ex eos et fugiti rerferiae necaeperi consequiae essumqu atincium voluptaqui ommodi quiae velluptur solorro eius. Uptium intem dis volumque cum lique dolupta temque laborru ptation emolore de ilicae offictur? Eventin pliberestin pellis ad quas ium que miliquae vellabo repuda volor modisqu atibus etum essunt as inctotas.
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Hardback 112 pp 193 x 140 mm BIC Code: WN, WNC, WNP, WZG colour photographs and specially commissioned illustrations 978-1-910787-74-8 March 2018 £15.00
Earth to Earth
A Natural History of Churchyards Professor Stefan Buczacki From the earliest pagan sites to modern urban cemeteries, burial grounds have always enjoyed a sacred, protected status in the history of society. Consequently they have become tranquil oases in which wildlife can flourish – a microcosm of the natural habitat long since disappeared from the surrounding area. In Earth to Earth, Professor Stefan Buczacki uncovers the wild animals and plants that thrive amongst the headstones, from the graveyard beetle to the mighty yew. He also explores the history of churchyards and the landscape, as well as what can be done to conserve them for future generations. Accompanied by specially commissioned illustrations and selected quotations, this beautiful gift book reveals the natural secrets to be found in God’s Acre.
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Professor Stefan Buczacki is a world-renowned botanist. He is one of the most experienced and prolific non-fiction authors in the country and as well as contributing to practically every major national newspaper and magazine, he has written around sixty books, including several standard works of reference. He also spent twelve unbroken years as panellist and Chairman on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Gardeners’ Question Time’. He was educated at the Universities of Southampton (First Class Honours in Botany) and Oxford (Doctorate in Forestry) and built up a distinguished academic research record before leaving to pursue a freelance career over thirty years ago. Stefan has special expertise in fungi and is double Past-President of the British Mycological Society, the largest learned society in the world devoted to their scientific study. He has received numerous academic awards and degrees as well as the Veitch Memorial Medal in Gold of the Royal Horticultural Society and in 2013 the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Garden Media Guild.
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Paperback 320 pp 235 x 170 mm BIC Code: B, WM, WMQL Illustrated throughout 978-1-911604-23-5 February 2018 £20.00
Churchill and Chartwell
The Untold Story of Churchill’s Houses and Gardens
Professor Stefan Buczacki
This book is a biography of Winston Churchill through the houses he lived in and the gardens he made. It culminates with the full story of his purchase, alteration and creation of Chartwell, Kent, where he lived for more than 40 years before and after the war, and which is now, in keeping with his intentions, owned and run by the National Trust. Churchill was born amidst the splendour of Blenheim Palace but, ever a restless spirit, he owned or rented many houses, both grand and relatively modest, over the course of his long life, including country retreats, modern town apartments and, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Admiralty House. But it was his house at Chartwell that would be for ever associated with his name. Gardening expert and author Stefan Buczacki has researched Winston Churchill’s homes and gardens, discovering a side to the great leader that is largely unknown – that of a man steeped in Victorian values who looked after his personal staff and behaved with utmost integrity and honesty in all of his business dealings as well. Based on extensive and scholarly archive study, this well illustrated book brings to light an array of previously unpublished details and reveals a fascinating side to Britain’s greatest war leader. Professor Stefan Buczacki is a British horticulturist, botanist, biographer and broadcaster. He is without doubt one of Britain’s most popular and most highly respected gardening experts and has presented many television programmes. He has contributed to practically every major national newspaper and magazine, he has written around sixty books, including several standard works of reference. 14
Hardback 260 pp 193 x 140 mm BIC Code: WNCB, WN, WNC 20 images 978-1-911604-36-5 February 2018 £15.00
Swifts in a Tower David Lack FRS First published in 1956, Swifts in a Tower still offers astonishing insights into swifts’ private lives along with thoughts about their lifestyle and wider issues. Now more than sixty years later swifts have been studied even more thoroughly, with technology unimaginable in the 1950s. This continues to reveal even more of their secrets, so this edition, published in association with the RSPB for their Oxford Swift City project includes a new chapter by Andrew Lack, bringing the story of this remarkable bird into the 21st Century. David Lack (1910-1973) is one of the most celebrated names in the study of birds. His pioneering life-history studies resulted in an explosion of interest in the ecology of birds as well as the landmark popular books The Life of the Robin, Darwin’s Finches, and Swifts in a Tower. Even during World War II he was able to study bird migration while involved in secret work to develop radar. In 1945 he became the Director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology in Oxford and started research programmes – including on swifts – that continue right to this day.
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Hardback 176 pp 240 x 196 mm BIC Code: AGR, A ABA 130 colour images 978-1-911604-11-2 March 2018 ÂŁ25.00
Divine Conception
The Art of the Annunciation Sarah Drummond Divine Conception: The Art of the Annunciation asks the questions: How to evoke the invisible in the visible? How to convey the divine in the human? Focussing on twelve specific aspects of the Annunciation (for instance, where Mary is reading, or where Joseph is present at the event), the book explores images (paintings, illuminated manuscripts, ivories, mosaics, sculpture, wall paintings, metal work) in the context of the period when they were made. Each chapter reflects on contemporaneous treatises, sermons, patron’s requirements, devotional practices, artistic conventions, theological concerns, that informed the artist and his audience. The works of art discussed relate to the Latin West from the earliest times, with a cut-off date towards the middle of the 16th century. Sarah Drummond studied Art History in Paris followed by postgraduate studies at the Courtauld, SOAS and Birkbeck (MA in Renaissance Studies). Her professional background is in journalism, mainly as a freelance features writer. Her interest in the subject of the Annunciation goes back many decades, and during the gestation of this work she has visited museums, galleries and churches all over Europe and North America. She has observed first-hand the vast majority of the works illustrated in the book, many of which can be studied in their original settings.
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SHADES OF GREEN
MY LIFE AS THE NATIONAL TRUST’S HEAD OF GARDENS Negotiating change – care, repair, renewal
John Sales with foreword by Anna Pavord
Hardback 336 pp 245 x 165 mm HB BIC Code: WM, WMB, WMD, WMQL 250+ colour images 978-1-911604-18-1 March 2018 £25.00
Shades of Green
My Life as the National Trust’s Head of Gardens John Sales This book incorporates lessons learned over a quarter of a century of managing, renewing and caring for the gardens of the National Trust; negotiating change with a variety of colourful characters, including former owners, now tenants. It traces the very British way the Trust learned about conserving historic gardens towards an overdue national commitment to leading this unique contribution to European culture. By the time John Sales was appointed in 1971, the National Trust had already acquired an eclectic range of gardens and designed landscape parks, more than any independent organisation ever. The Trust was in the process of taking them in hand and beginning to acquire many more, sometimes with great houses and estates but also in their own right as significant documents of history, important plant collections, unsung works of art and reservoirs of disappearing expertise. After horticultural college in Kent, John Sales passed his National Diploma in Horticulture while a student gardener at Kew, where his knowledge of plants developed and his interest in garden design and historic gardens was engendered. In 1971 he was appointed gardens adviser to the National Trust. He was lucky not simply because this was the kind of job that many would covet, but mainly because it came early in a period of rapid expansion in the Trust’s involvement with historic gardens and landscape parks, of great beauty and heritage significance. John served as Head of Gardens until 1998. He was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest honour given by the Royal Horticultural Society, in 1991, and has since been a Vice-President of the Society, and of the Garden History Society (now the Gardens Trust). 18
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THE DU MAURIERS JUST AS THEY WERE
Hardback 208 pp 234 x 156 mm BIC Code: B, BGF, BG, BGL 40 colour images 978-1-911604-09-9 May 2018 £25.00
The Du Mauriers Just As They Were Anne Hall The Du Mauriers, Just As They Were tells the story of five generations of this remarkable family, beginning with Mathurin-Robert Busson, a master glassblower who immigrated to London in 1789, added the suffix ‘Du Maurier’ to his name, and so became a ‘gentleman glassblower’ His grandson, George Du Maurier was born in Paris in 1834, studied chemistry in London and finally took up the beaux-arts in Paris, Antwerp and Düsseldorf. Later, he became a beloved Punch cartoonist. Of his children, the youngest Gerald Du Maurier became a prominent actor-manager, and Gerald’s second daughter was the novelist Daphne Du Maurier. In the course of her career Daphne Du Maurier published four volumes of family history, culminating in the extensively-researched Glass-Blowers, which revealed her French forebear’s aristocratic imposture for the first time. Daphne identified with her Victorian grandfather, sharing his love of France and interest in family history. However she puzzled over his first book, Peter Ibbetson, wondering why he had portrayed their ancestors as aristocrats. The reason is complicated, highly revealing, and would almost certainly have been a complete surprise to her. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957, Anne Hall studied in Switzerland, France and later at Radcliffe College and the University of Washington. Her interest in the Du Mauriers led her to take a PhD in French at the University of California, with a dissertation including George Du Maurier’s memories of the music of his childhood in Passy outside Paris. After teaching for several years she relocated to France to begin researching Du Maurier family history. She has published several articles on the family, followed by the book Sur les pas de Daphne Du Maurier; Au pays des souffleurs de verre (2010), with an introduction by Daphne Du Maurier’s daughter. 21
Hardback 208 pp 234 x 155 mm BIC Code: ACVN, WCP, WF B&W and colour images 978-1-911604-15-0 February 2018 ÂŁ25.00
In Search of Ramsden & Carr Helen Ashton While looking into her genealogy, particularly the Cumberbatches from Barbados, Helen Ashton discovered the silversmith Omar Ramsden and his connection to her family. Omar Ramsden and fellow Sheffield-born designer Alwyn Carr set up a partnership in 1898 moving to London to exploit the fashionable taste for handmade silver of the Arts and Crafts Movement and, with the help of skilled artisans, made articles adapted from Gothic and Renaissance designs with Celtic-style inscriptions, which became their trademark. A fascinating story, painstakingly researched following one of the most successful silversmithing collaborations of the 20th century. Helen’s interest became a fascinating obsession, resulting in three years of research to find out about his family background in Sheffield and his long partnership. Helen Ashton spent her early childhood in the Welsh hills and Hay on Wye, before her family moved north to the green suburbs of Newcastle upon Tyne. While raising her family she taught for several years, then had a successful career writing best-selling school text books on food and nutrition. She then studied Art History with the Open University, obtaining a First Class Honours Degree, with a particular interest in early Italian painting.
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THE WRITING ON THE WALL 101 Iconic Blue Plaques Commemorating Britain’s History
Hardback 160 pp 180 x 129 mm BIC Code: WTH, HBJD1, WZG 100+ colour images 978-1-911604-26-6 March 2018 £14.99
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The Writing on the Wall
101 Iconic Blue Plaques Commemorating Britain’s History Mike Read A blue plaque is a recognised symbol of our national heritage; a living footprint of our history with each one serving as a permanent reminder of an important contribution to the history of the country. The blue plaques commemorate notable, influential and successful people from all walks of life. They are erected in the present to celebrate our past and inspire our future. The Writing on the Wall reveals 101 blue plaques from across the United Kingdom, and the stories and people behind them, each linking through a common denominator to the next. We remember kings, explorers, inventors, actors, footballers, writers, politicians, cricketers, musicians, reformers, broadcasters, artists, the military, athletes, dancers, activists and poets. From William Shakespeare to David Bowie, to the victims of Jack the Ripper, this is an eclectic representation of British life, through our blue plaques, from the 1500s to 2017. Mike Read is Chairman of the British Plaque Trust, and in 2017 worked with the BBC to create almost fifty plaques to musical icons for BBC Music Day. He has won ten Broadcaster of the Year Awards and as a TV presenter has fronted such top-rated shows as Top of the Pops, Pop Quiz, Saturday Superstore and six years reviewing the papers on Sky News. On radio he joined Radio One from Radio Luxembourg, hosting the Radio One Breakfast Show for almost six years, later presenting the breakfast shows on Classic FM, Jazz FM and the Gold Network. He has written 37 books, written songs for over forty major artists, eight stage musicals and is an Ambassador for the Prince’s Trust. The Writing on the Wall is being published to coincide with the unveiling of the Buddy Holly plaque by the author. 23
Hardback 128 pp 234 x 156 mm BIC Code: AGB, BGFA, BGA 130+ colour illustrations 978-1-910787-80-9 April 2018 £20.00
Percy Moore Turner
Connoisseur, Impresario and Art Dealer Sarah A. M. Turner Grudgingly acknowledged as the main mentor for the Courtaulds in building their art collections, the London and Paris art dealer, Percy Moore Turner, is now largely forgotten in this country. Yet, in France, he was honoured by the French Government with the award of Officer and then Commander of the Legion d’Honneur and feted by the Museums of France with specially struck medals. In this, the first biography of Percy Moore Turner, his granddaughter, who has access to his few remaining business papers and unpublished autobiography, has researched his life and career. Born in Halifax in 1877, Turner’s life and career spanned two World Wars and periods of economic volatility. He tirelessly promoted modern French art internationally and built up a client base which included Dr Albert Barnes, Charles Lang Freer, Samuel Courtauld and Frank Hindley Smith. A longstanding friend of Kenneth Clark, Turner strove to ensure that his own art collection was placed appropriately in museums and galleries throughout Britain and France, considering himself merely the custodian of the pictures he owned. Sarah A. M. Turner is the granddaughter of Percy Moore Turner and has researched his life since 2012. She spent her career working for the NHS, and having retired she splits her time between beekeeping, gardening, walking, Chinese brush painting and fundraising with the other committee members of Buckinghamshire Art Fund Committee.
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El Lissitzky The Jewish Period Alexander Kantsedikas
Hardback 208 pp 290 x 240 mm BIC Code: AGB, A, AB, AC 500 colour illustrations 978-1-910787-96-0 October 2017 £35.00
El Lissitzky
The Jewish Period Alexander Kantsedikas El Lissitzky (1880–1941) is unquestionably one of Russian Modernism’s most well known artists. The subject of numerous monographs and exhibitions, his mature abstract paintings, drawings, photographs and graphic work can be found in abundance in Western and Eastern public collections. In his early career, however, his work was more or less exclusively devoted to Jewish subjects, reflecting his religious education and family’s heritage. While a handful of these works are well known and widely published, this fascinating book, El Lissitzky’s The Jewish Period by Alexander Kantsedikas, one of the world’s leading scholars on the artist, is the first endeavour to look at this phase of his work. Amounting to a veritable catalogue raisonné of 500-plus works, the author has resurrected some of the more obscure but no less fascinating works by Lissitzky in Hebrew and Yiddish. Lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white, the book tracks his evolution from an Expressionist style to one that is increasingly more abstract and non-objective. It also includes rare photographic material of the artist’s family, as well as little-known correspondence from his father and his relationship with his fist wife, who has heretofore been entirely obscured in the artist’s biography. Dr. Kantsedikas has devoted much of the last twenty-five years to an intensive study of the work of El Lissitzky. Together with his wife, Professor of Architecture, Zoya Yargina, he published the first Russian-language monograph on the artist’s oeuvre, entitled El Lissitzky: A Film of Life, 1890–1941 (7 vols.; Moscow: Novyi Ermitazh – Odin, 2004). 27
Hardback 208 pp 280 x 250 mm BIC Code: A, AJ, AJB, AJC 100 colour images 978-1-911604-08-2 April 2018 £25.00
Portraits Laurie Lewis A book of portraits photographed on film, processed and printed using traditional materials, accompanied by a narrative of the author’s recollections of the occasion. Celebrities include: Jenny Agutter, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Dizzy Gillespie, David Hockney, Kiri Te Kanawa, Annie Lennox, Van Morrison, Rudolf Nureyev and The Beatles. Laurie Lewis attended Walthamstow Art School and the Royal College of Art prior to pursuing his higher education at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles). He has previously been employed in both the UK and USA film industries and has worked on a variety of motion pictures and documentaries. Some of his most notable projects have included documentaries on Warren Beatty’s gun control activism and the 1968 riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention. Laurie was also involved in the production of a concert film for Frank Zappa and has worked on films on the Rolling Stones and Ian Dury.
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Hardback 302 pp 235 x 155 mm BIC Code: A, AGB, WTL 40 colour images 978-1-911604-30-3 June 2018 £25.00
Thomas, Lucy and Alatau
The Atkinsons’ Adventures in Siberia and the Kazakh Steppe John Massey Stewart This is the first – and definitive – biography of an unjustly forgotten man: Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799–1861), architect, artist, traveller extraordinaire, author – and bigamist. Famous in his lifetime as ‘the Siberian traveller’, he spent seven years travelling nearly 40,000 miles through the Urals, Kazakhstan and Siberia with special authorisation from the Tsar, producing 560 watercolour sketches of the often dramatic scenery and exotic peoples. He kept a detailed daily journal, now extensively quoted for the first time with his descendants’ cooperation. This is also the story of Lucy, his spirited and intrepid wife and their son Alatau Tamchiboulac, called after their favourite places and born in a remote Cossack fort. They both shared his many adventures and extremes of heat and cold, travelling with him on horseback up and down precipices and across dangerous rivers.
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John Massey Stewart is a leading authority on Russia and the former Soviet Union. Working as an academic, writer, lecturer, photographer and environmental activist, he has travelled across Russia 30 times since 1960. He has lectured and given academic papers on different aspects of life in Russia in the UK, USA, France, Israel, Canada and Siberia. He co-founded with the Conservation Foundation the London Initiative on the Russian Environment and has been a Specialist Adviser to a House of Commons environmental enquiry and a delegate to the NATO Advanced Workshop on ecotourism at Siberia’s Lake Baikal.
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Hardback 208 pp 234 x 156 mm BIC Code: B, BM, BT 40 images 978-1-911604-33-4 March 2018 ÂŁ25.00
Remarkable Encounters
Men and Women Who Have Shaped Our World Vagif Guseynov Throughout the ages some journalists have been fortunate or skilful enough to be in the right place at the right time as tumultuous events have unfolded; one such is the Soviet journalist and politician Vagif Guseynov. Remarkable Encounters brings together recollections from Guseynov’s remarkable life and provides a fascinating insight into some of the key personalities, events and ideas which, as the 20th century rose to its climactic finale, were destined to shape our world. Figures include many Russians: Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev and Shevardnadze, but also their opposite numbers: Kissinger and Rice, and their allies: the Castros, Guevara and HÜnecker. We also meet the Gandhis, Pope John Paul II, Lech Walesa, Yuri Gagarin and travel with Guseynov on road trips around North Korea, Cambodia and Vietnam as they struggle to meet the realpolitiks of the late 20th century. Vagif Guseynov is a retired Major-General in the Russian Army. He started his career as a journalist, working on radio and television before becoming the editor of Olympic Sport, Analytical Messenger and other titles. He has also served as First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Komsomol Central Committee, Secretary on International Questions of the All-Union Komsomol Central Committee, the Mayor of Baku, Azerbaijan and First Deputy Chief of Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. More recently he was the last Chairman of the KGB in Azerbaijan and a member of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defence Policy. Throughout his career he has travelled extensively and has written twelve books and many articles on political, economic and international matters.
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Hardback 176 pp 200 x 200 mm BIC Code: WM, AKP, TBY, WZG 100+ B&W photos and colour illustrations 978-1-911604-47-1 May 2018 ÂŁ14.99
Two Men Went to Mow
The Obsession, Impact and History of Lawn Mowing Clive Gravett A story of two excessive men, born 157 years apart, both obsessed with the lawn mower. Edwin Beard Budding 1796-1846 its ingenious inventor & Clive Gravett the author, whose passion for the lawn mower & indeed its inventor has led to a Museum & Charity both dedicated to his hero, not to mention his vast collection of mowers spanning 150 years. This book tells the story of this world changing piece of machinery which has impacted on all of our lives, in particular the many turf based sports, would Cristiano Ronaldo be earning his millions if we were still using the scythe to cut grass? We are taken on an extraordinary & informative journey as the mower developed, linking in with social history and indeed many famous and sometimes infamous people Osama Bin Laden for instance! Clive Garratt resigned from the rat race in 2004 to start his own horticultural business, an interest in gardening history & particularly lawn mowers gradually emerged retiring in 2016 after founding a charity to support young people in need and opening the Museum of Gardening, both dedicated to Edwin Beard Budding inventor of the lawn mower in 1830. Clive has since emerged as one of the leading worldwide authorities on lawnmower history, regularly giving talks/lectures and writing articles on the subject.
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Paperback 160 pp 270 x 216 mm BIC Code: AKTA, AKTH, JFCK 150 colour images 978-1-911604-22-8 January 2018 £18.00 NOW IN PAPERBACK
1920s Jazz Age Fashion & Photographs Martin Pel and Terence Pepper 1920s Jazz Age Fashion and Photographs celebrates haute couture, ready-to-wear and mass market fashion in America, Britain and France from 1919 to 1929, with an in-depth focus on women’s clothing. Illustrated with specially commissioned photography, the book brings together leading experts to examine the social, political and cultural influences of the period, setting into context the role fashion played in it. This book was published to accompany the exhibition ‘1920s Jazz Age Fashion and Photographs’ at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London, in January 2017. Characterised by exuberance and optimism, the jazz age was a symptom of the end of the First World War and the birth of America as a new world power. It was a period of unprecedented social change for women who were, for the first time in history, given the vote on a par with men (1920 USA, 1928 Britain). The birth of Modernity in the 1920s established women’s lives as ‘active’ and fashion reflected and celebrated these new social roles. A new ‘boyish’ silhouette, la garçonne, became the look for women of the twenties with a gradual acceptance of trousers as fashionable dress. The passive sunbathing became the active swimming, and companies such as Jantzen recognised these changes creating the ‘speed suit’ for women. The 1920s saw technology and innovative textiles, with the introduction of the artificial silk Rayon and the zip, contributing to an easier approach to fashionable dress.
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Hardback 160 pp 180 x 129 mm BIC Code: JWG, HBW, WZG Over 100 colour images and photographs 978-1-911604-45-7 March 2018 ÂŁ14.99
Reaching for the Sky
One Hundred Defining Moments from the Royal Air Force 1918-2018 Paul Davis 2018 marks the centenary of the formation of the Royal Air Force. Founded in the final months of the Great War, this book provides the greatest facts and figures relating to the RAF. Who were the original Aces? What was the longest mission undertaken? How much did the heaviest bomb weigh? How flew the most sorties? What was the fastest speed ever encountered in battle? How many aircraft were in the sky during the Battle of Britain? What was the day of heaviest loses in conflict? Who had the longest career? Who is the most famous? All this and much more is uncovered in a range of informative and detailed events spanning the centenary; biographies, fun facts, myth busters and illustrated throughout with infographics and contemporary photographs. Paul Davies is a World War One and Two aviation historian who has provided research and information on a number of books, magazines and television articles including work with the BBC. 35
THE KAISER’S DAWN
The untold story of Britain’s secret mission to murder the Kaiser in 1918 JOHN HUGHES-WILSON
Hardback 272 pp 234 x 155 mm BIC Code: HBWN, JWKT, 3JJF 10 photographs and maps 978-1-911604-39-6 May 2018 £20.00
The Kaiser’s Dawn
The Untold Story of Britain’s Secret Mission to Murder the Kaiser in 1918 John Hughes-Wilson In mid summer 1918 a top secret mission, which has remained classified information for a century, was set in motion to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II. It was felt that by killing their head of state and commander in chief it would serve as a mortal blow to the German forces and they would collapse very quickly after the assassination. The facts are borne out in never-before-published notebooks, maps and pilots’ flying records, kept secret for a hundred years. The implications of this secret attack raise many new – and explosive - questions. Exactly who ordered an attack to kill the Kaiser? Was it sanctioned by the C-in-C, Sir Douglas Haig? By the War Office? Was the King informed of the attempt to kill his royal cousin? Was Lloyd George, the Prime Minister asked? We do not know; but someone in London must have sanctioned the attack. The Official History makes no mention of any attack, and public records say nothing. John Hughes-Wilson has woven an exciting and well-paced historical novel to mark this centennial event from the research on discovering this mission. The story, based on true events, looks at this long hidden secret and puts it into the context of the time. It explores areas rarely examined: secret service operations in 1914-18; dirty, undercover intelligence work; the very real political intrigues between Whitehall and the generals and the heroics of the aircrew of the day, whose life expectancy at one point in 1917 was only eleven days in action. John Hughes Wilson was a serving officer in the British Army for thirty five years, for the majority of the time serving in the Intelligence Corps where he ended up commanding British Intelligence in SHAPE in Brussels. Since retirement he has written seven books of non fiction and eight novels. 36
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RORKE’S DRIFT DIARY An account of the Battles of Isandhlwana and Rorke’s Drift Zululand 22nd January 1879
Captain William Penn Symons
Paperback 96 pp 197 x 128mm BIC Code: HBWM, BJ B&W illustrations and map 978-1-911604-24-2 February 2018 £12.99
Rorke’s Drift Diary
An Account of the Battles of Isandhlwana and Rorke’s Drift Zululand January 1879 Captain William Penn Symons An account of the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, Zululand, 22nd January 1879, by Capt. Penn Symons, 2nd 24th Regt. The account details the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift from a first hand perspective and subsequently from the few remaining survivors of both battles who are included in the list of survivors of 1/24th Regt; Pte. Williams, groom to Col. Glynn, Pte. Bickley, band member, Pte. Wilson, band member, Pte. Trainer, rocket battery, Pte. Johnson, rocket battery, Pte. Grant, mounted infantry and officers who escaped to include; Capt. Essex 75 Regt., Capt. Gardener, 14th Hussars, Lieut. Cachrane 32 Regt. Lieut. Smith Dorrien, 95th Regt and Lieut. Curling R.A. This unique book has been created in association with the Victoria Cross Trust from a leatherbound original, digitised and carefully updated from hand-written annotations contained in the typed manuscript for ease of reading. Captain William Penn Symons (July 1843 - October 1899) was a British army officer who lost his life at the battle of Talana Hill during the second Boer war. His first combat was in South Africa during the 9th Xhosa war (1877-78). In 1879 he took part in the Zulu wars which this book documents, the merest chance saved him from certain death at Isandlwana.
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The Sound of Hunger
U-Boats, Politics, Chivalry, Lies and Murder during the First World War Dr Chris Heal ‘The Sound of Hunger’ is a true story that centres on two German brothers and the First Word War. The Gerths’ lives and careers as navy officers are set against the military and political environment of their times. Carefully-nurtured myths of national innocence are uncovered; discrediting truths and war crimes of both the Allies and Germany are brought into the limelight. The brothers were born in booming Berlin in the 1880s. Their father died when the boys were young. A unknown guardian angel saw the youngsters through one of Berlin’s most prestigious grammar schools and paid their considerable fees as cadets. In the burgeoning naval fleet, they were of the lowest social class allowed into this elite new force. Their careers were unusual, exciting, with remarkable contacts made: villains and heroes. Both ended the war as u-boat commanders, one a French prisoner of war for over two years. Major sea battles, daring escape attempts, spying in South America, bombardment of the English coast; Tirpitz, Canaris, Dönitz, the Red Baron, the Kaiser, Hitler, the Pope-to-be, the Spanish royal family, and hundreds of others fill the pages. The Gerths’ personal decisions are interwoven with Germany’s bid for world power, naval training, the founding of the Flanders u-boat bases, the importance of the Baltic and the Mediterranean, the economic blockade of Germany and its devastating effects on European neutral countries, unfettered submarine warfare, prison camps, Britain’s virulent propaganda 38
designed to drag America into the conflict, the German collapse, and the post-war fight to the death between a new republic and Bolshevism. The book takes its title from the thrust of the war, not in the trenches, but in the deliberate attempts by both sides to starve each other’s civilian populations. The damage to Germany’s children was generational as food shortages were deliberately extended by the Allies to force Germany to a debilitating peace. The brothers dealt with that peace; they and their families took sides. All paid painfully: one stripped off his Foreign Office career by the Nazis and dying in poverty; the other watching the ruins of his family home, flattened by British carpet bombing of a demilitarised town. Chris Heal completed his PhD at Bristol University in 2012 when he was sixty-five-years-old. His reconstruction of almost 500 years of the Avon regional felt hat industry was published locally, received many awards, and was academically reviewed as ‘first-rate, well-written with immensely impressive scholarship’. He has had a varied career from setting up a window cleaning business to support himself at grammar school, digging ditches for the M1 motorway, hitch-hiking the hippy trail to India in 1968, working for several years as a journalist and managing the buy-out of the department of a large American corporation. He lived and worked in Africa for five years and has also funded and advised internet start-ups, and other small businesses. He is a qualified scuba-diving instructor and currently lives in Hampshire.
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The Sea Takes No Prisoners
Stories from the Men and Ships of the Royal Navy in the Second World War Edmund S. Wong The voices of over 125 Royal Navy men and women recount their days of service to Britain and the world during the 1939–1945 war at sea. The stories selected from the audio archive of the Imperial War Museum cover as wide a range as possible of wartime experiences that include: life before the war, motivations for enlisting, training and reporting for sea duty. Accounts of fear, anger and terror are intertwined with others that concern love, humor and fun. Shipboard life is remembered as ranging from hectic to monotonous, both inspiring and frustrating and dangerous, yet also secure. The book’s chapters accompany the men and their ships from great oceans to unknown backwaters as they engage, year by year, in the war’s naval battles and campaigns, the majority of which are represented. There is a chapter dedicated to the wartime contributions of the WRNS, another chapter dedicated to the RN’s Boy Seamen and an epilogue that tells about the post-war fate of some of the ships and men featured in the book. Edmund Wong grew up in San Francisco and as a young man enlisted in the US Navy and served as a medic aboard an aircraft carrier. He has kept up an interest in the naval matters and ship modelling, some of which are included in the book.
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FOR VALOUR The Complete History of the Victoria Cross
VOLUME 3
The Victorian Wars to 1895
Michael Charles Robson (series ed)
Hardback 420 pp 290 x 218 mm BIC Code: HBW, HBWL, WCF, JWT B&W photos and illustrations 978-1-910500-93-4 June 2018 £120.00
For Valour
The Complete History of the Victoria Cross: Volume 3 The Victorian Wars to 1895 Michael Charles Robson For Valour: The Complete History of the Victoria Cross will be the definitive work on the subject and compelling as a narrative as well as the ultimate reference source. This ambituous project in association with The Victoria Cross Trust will be published in eight volumes over four years. Each volume is divided into two parts: Part 1 – Wars, Battles & Deeds will contain a description of each war and battle or engagement which involved deeds resulting in the award of each Victoria Cross. The deeds are described within the context of the war and battle during which they occurred. Part 2 – Portraits of Valour will contain a biography of each recipient of the Victoria Cross.
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1 INCEPTION OF THE VICTORIA CROSS Despite the fact that the war had ended more than a year before the first award was made, the Victoria Cross was born out of the hostilities of the Crimean War. This was the first major war, to be covered by regular newspaper correspondents – the first “War Correspondents” – their regular reporting of the war had a profound effect on the general public as well as those in positions of power. One correspondent, William Howard Russell (1820–1907) an Irish reporter for The Times, was especially influential. Although
Figure 1. William Howard Russell
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his coverage of the conflict brought him international renown Russell was often at odds with the military leaders and the British Commander Lord Raglan advised his officers not to speak to him. Russell’s dispatches, often via telegraph, had high impact, as for the first time the public could read of the horrors of warfare almost as the events were unfolding. His reporting of the “humane barbarity” of the battlefield surgeons at the Battle of Alma River and the lack of ambulance care for the wounded was instrumental in the public outrage which influenced the Government to re-evaluate the treatment of troops. This led to Florence Nightingale’s involvement in a complete overhaul of battlefield medical care and treatment. Russell was very supportive of the front-line troops and during his coverage of the Siege of Sevastopol coined the phrase “the thin red line”, however, he also reported the appalling conditions suffered by the troops, including outbreaks of Cholera and Typhoid Fever. His coverage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, at Balaklava on 25th October 1854, inspired the epic poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson which paid tribute to the gallantry of the troops – “If the exhibition of the most brilliant valour, of the excess of courage, and of a daring which would have reflected luster on the best days of chivalry can afford full consolation for the disaster of today, we can have no reason to regret the melancholy loss which we sustained in a contest with a savage and barbarian enemy.” He also pointed to the failures of leadership in such a foolhardy action, “We could hardly believe the evidence of our senses. Surely, that handful of men were not going to charge an army in position? Alas! It was but too true – their desperate valor knew no bounds, and far indeed was it removed from its so-called better part – discretion.” In addition to the extensive reporting of the war, this was the first war to be documented by photography, at the insistence of Prince Albert, Roger Fenton (1819–1869) was sent to the Crimea as the first official war photographer.
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and had already discussed the matter with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. In January 1855 The Duke wrote to Prince Albert suggesting “a new decoration open to all ranks”, he also wrote that: “It does not seem to me right of politic, that such deeds of heroism as the war has produced should go unrewarded by any distinctive mark of honour because they are done by privates or officers below the rank of Major … The value attached by soldiers to a little bit of ribbon is such as to render any danger insignificant and any privation light if it can be attained.” The Duke followed up his letter by an announcement of the new award in a speech to the House of Lords on 29th January 1855 – “After very careful consideration—a consideration which ought always to attend changes of such a description—Her Majesty has been advised to institute a Cross of Merit, which shall be applicable to all ranks of the army in future. It is not intended, my Lords, that this new Order shall in any way affect the present Order of the Bath, but that a separate and distinct Cross of Military Merit shall be given, which shall be open to all ranks of the army, and which, I hope, will be an object of ambition to every individual in the service, from the General who commands down to the privates in the ranks”.
I have called you together at this unusual period of the year, in order that by your assistance I may take such Measures as will enable me to prosecute the Great War in which we are engaged with the utmost vigour and effect. This Assistance I know will be readily given; for I cannot doubt that you share my conviction of the necessity of sparing no effort to augment my forces now engaged in the Crimea. The exertions they have made, and the victories they have obtained, are not exceeded in the brightest pages of our history, and have filled me with admiration and gratitude. On 19th December 1854 (perhaps sparked by the Queen’s speech), the retired Royal Naval Captain and Liberal MP, Thomas Scobell presented a motion “Medal for the Army in the Crimea” to the house. That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty praying that she would be graciously pleased to institute an ‘Order of Merit,’ to be bestowed upon persons serving in the Army or Navy for distinguished and prominent personal gallantry during the present war, and to which every grade and individual, from the highest to the lowest, in the United Services, may be admissible. Captain Scobell was probably unaware that the Secretary of State for War, The Duke of Newcastle, had had the same thought
At about the same time an official memorandum on the subject was circulated within the War Office setting out the details of a cross to be awarded for ‘a signal act of valour in the presence of the enemy’. On the 19th March 1855, Captain Thomas Scobell, addressed the House of Commons (regarding his motion for an Order of Merit), “he wished to ask the noble Lord at the head of Her Majesty’s Government whether Her Majesty’s Government had decided to recommend the institution of an Order of Merit; if so, whether such Order was intended to be a new and distinct one, restricted to the military and naval services, and applicable to every grade therein; and whether it was determined to bring such Order of Merit into prompt operation?” The Prime Minister of the day, Lord Palmerston, answered as follows “Sir, in reply to the question of the hon. and gallant Member, I beg to state, that it is the intention of Her Majesty’s Government, as was stated on a former occasion in the other House of Parliament [the House of Lords], to establish an Order of that description. Of course, it will apply to both services, because we hope that merit will be equally prominent in both. The particular arrangements of that institution have not yet been settled. Information has been sought in other Countries in which a similar institution exists, and, until that information is obtained, the Government cannot frame the regulations under which the Order will be distributed.” Shortly after making his speech on 29th January, the Duke of Newcastle was replaced as Secretary of War by Lord Panmure and some of the impetus was lost, however, the question regarding the new honour was now not a question of “if ” but a question of “when”. Communications between Lord Panmure and Prince Albert continued, regarding the details of the new award and Queen Victoria herself was deeply involved in the design and appearance of the medal which was to bear her name. Eventually, a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual was issued on 29 January 1856 (gazetted 5 February 1856) that officially instigated the Victoria Cross. The order was backdated to 1854 to recognise acts of valour during the Crimean War. By the spring of 1856 the Order was well in hand, but there followed months of delays, while the details were sorted out and it was decided who would be eligible for the new award. Boards of adjudication were set up by the Admiralty and the army, but they
Figure 5. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
took a long time to reach their conclusions. Some commanding officers seized upon the opportunity to bring distinction to their regiments by putting dozens of names forward to the selection boards. Others ignored the whole thing. So while the 77th Regiment put forward no fewer than thirty-eight candidates, six regiments offered none at all. The slow process of adjudication ground on for a full twelve months, the final list of recipients was not published in the London Gazette until 23rd June. The Queen made it plain to Lord Panmure, that she herself wished to bestow her new award on as many of the recipients as possible, the first medals were finally presented at an investiture in Hyde Park on 26th June 1857.
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3 Lord Panmure took the commission for the new medal to a firm of jewellers, Hancock’s and Co. of Bruton Street, London. This decoration consists of a Maltese cross formed from the cannon captured from the Russians. The execution of the works has been entrusted by Lord Panmure to Mr. Hancock of Bruton Street. Daily Telegraph March 1st 1857
Founded in January 1849 by Charles Frederick Hancock, the business received the Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria
in August 1849, only eight months after it opened. Hancock’s rapidly expanded and earned a peerless reputation, having many of the principle sovereigns of Europe as regular patrons. It was because of this reputation that Charles Hancock was entrusted with the design and production of the Victoria Cross for which they still have the responsibility. From the beginning Queen Victoria took a great interest in the new award that would bear her name, especially in the design and appearance. The Queen and Prince Albert also influenced the name of the new honour, rejecting, the proposed ‘Military Order of Victoria’, in favour of the simpler designation ‘Victoria Cross’. In January 1856, Mr. H. H. Armstead, from Hancock’s, submitted several of his designs to Queen Victoria via Lord Panmure, she selected one closely modelled on an existing campaign medal, the Army Gold Cross from the Peninsular War – suggesting that is should be “a little smaller”. She also made a significant alteration to the motto, rejecting ‘for the brave’ and substituting ‘for valour’, in case anyone should believe that the only brave men in a battle were those awarded the medal. After the design had been approved the first metal proof was submitted to the Queen on 4th February 1856. From the beginning it had been decided that the medal would be made of base metal, however, this first proof was not agreeable to the Queen – “The Cross looks very well in form, but the metal is ugly; it is copper and not bronze and will look very heavy on a red coat”. Inspired perhaps by the Queen’s remarks, someone had the happy thought that it would be fitting to take the bronze for the new medals from Russian guns captured in the Crimea. Accordingly, an engineer went off to Woolwich Barracks, where two 18-pounders were placed at his disposal. Despite the fact that these guns were clearly of antique design and inscribed with very un-Russian characters, nobody pointed out until many years had passed that the ‘VC guns’ were in fact Chinese, not Russian, and may or may not have been anywhere near the Crimea.
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The obverse shows a lion statant gardant upon the royal crown, and the inscription FOR VALOUR on a semi-circular scroll. On the reverse of the medal is a circular panel on which the date of the act for which the decoration was awarded is engraved in the centre. The cross is suspended by a ring from a seriffed “V” to a bar ornamented with laurel leaves, through which the ribbon passes. The reverse of the suspension bar is engraved with the recipient’s number, rank, name and ship, regiment or squadron. The ribbon is 1½ inches wide, the original 1856 Royal Warrant stated that the ribbon should be red for army recipients and blue for naval ones. The dark blue ribbon was abolished soon after the formation of the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918, when King George V
THE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF THE MEDAL The Initial Design of the Victoria Cross
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Figure 4. Henry Pelham-Clinton 5th Duke of Newcastle
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Figure 7. Charles Frederick Hancock
Figure 3. Roger Fenton
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There was considerable public outrage at these events, especially the lack of adequate recognition for the reported acts of gallantry by the “ordinary” sailors and soldiers. As mentioned earlier, there was little available to recognise the brave acts of the “common” soldier, in fact the prevailing view of the military leadership echoed that of Lord Wellington, that a sense of service to their country was adequate compensation. This was not the view held by several European armies, where the pre-eminent medal for gallantry was open to all ranks. The French (our allies in the Crimea) had the ‘Legion d’Honneur’, instituted in May 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte. The Prussian army had the ‘Iron Cross’, instituted in March 1813 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Imperial Russia they had the ‘Order and Cross of St. George’, Spain had the ‘Royal and Military Order of St. Fernindand’ and the Austro-Hungarian Empire had the ‘Tapferkeitsmedaille’ (Medal of Bravery); medals for gallantry open to all, irrespective of rank. The need for such an award for the British armed forces was slowly gaining momentum. On 12th December 1854, during the state opening of parliament, Queen Victoria paid homage to the actions of her troops in the Crimea.
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Figure 2. Charge of the Light Brigade Painting by Caton Woodville reproduced by kind permission of The Queen’s Royal Lancers Museum
Fenton and his assistant, Marcus Sparling, arrived on the ship HMS Hecla and set up their darkroom in a wagon. Using the wet-collodion photographic process of the times, they took approximately 360 photographs of the war. However, as an agent of the government, Fenton portrayed only the “acceptable” parts of the conflict. He avoided making pictures of dead, injured or mutilated soldiers. Although little of the real action or agony of war was shown, the images were nevertheless the first to depict the more mundane aspects of modern warfare and some of the men involved. The photographs produced were used to offset the general aversion of the British people to an unpopular war, and to counteract the antiwar reporting of TheTimes, they were converted into woodblocks and published in the less critical Illustrated London News. In addition to reporting the courage and endurance of the ordinary British soldier, the press also highlighted the poor performance of the officers and the shortages of proper clothing and equipment. The lack of adequate care for the operational servicemen was clearly illustrated by the fact that approximately 20,000 deaths were due to cholera and typhoid compared with 3,400 killed in battle.
Figure 8. Boxed Victoria Cross Medal
Figure 9. Specimen Medal Approved by Queen Victoria
Reproduced by kind permission Hancock’s of London
Photo: Mike Weston ABIPP/MOD
The Chinese gunmetal proved so hard that the dies which Hancock’s used began to crack up, so it was decided to cast the medals instead, a lucky chance which resulted in higher relief and more depth in the moulding than would have been possible with a die-stamped medal. A revised proof was submitted on the 21st February with more amendments being required. Further proofs were submitted and on the 3rd March 1856 the medal was finalised when the samples were returned to Lord Panmure, one having been chosen as satisfactory. On March 4th 1856 the War Office instructed Hancock’s to prepare 106 specimens.
Medal Details The medal is a cross pattée (not the Maltese cross mentioned in the Royal Warrant), it is 1⅝ inches high and 1⅜ inches wide.
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Figure 10. Victoria Cross Medal Photo: MoD/MOD
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Hamel 4th July 1918
The Day America Entered WW1 and Changed History John Hughes-Wilson The Battle of Hamel is arguably, the most important battle of the First World War yet it is still relatively unknown. It was turning point of the Great War and saw American troops fighting alongside Australian troops in their first taste of war on foreign soil, making the reputation of the man who led the troops, General Monash of the Australian Army. In the summer of 1918 the war was in the balance but the battle plan was beautifully conceived and executed, and without the Allies’ victory, Amiens would not have been possible. It is special for three reasons, firstly it lasted only ninety minutes with very few casualties. Secondly it was the battle that set up the troops for Amiens after which the Germans were rolled back to Berlin. Finally and most importantly it is the first time American troops fought on foreign soil and really entered international politics. Formerly on the course at Sandhurst it has now been replaced by more modern examples but Hamel is still the perfect battle a century on, superbly prepared. When most battles are fought the original plans go out of the window, not so with Hamel. John Hughes Wilson was a serving officer in the British Army for thirty five years, for the majority of the time serving in the Intelligence Corps where he ended up commanding British Intelligence in SHAPE in Brussels. Since retirement he has written seven books of non fiction and eight novels.
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An Admiral at War
The Grand Fleet Diary of Rear-Admiral Alexander Duff Simon Harley (ed) Paperback 192 pp 235 x 170 mm BIC Code: BTM, HBWN, JWKF 25 photographs 978-1-911604-43-3 April 2018 £16.99
The private diary kept by Rear-Admiral Alexander Duff while serving as a battleship division commander in the British Grand Fleet during the First World War. Simon Harley has been researching the Royal Navy since 2006. He has authored several articles on the Navy before the First World War, and presented papers at conferences in the United Kingdom and United States. Has travelled extensively in the United States and Canada.
Elusive to the Last
SOE’s Jacques de Guélis, his Life, his War and his Untimely End Delphine Isaaman Paperback 176 pp 234 x 170 mm BIC Code: HBW, HBWQ, JPSH Over 100 photographs 978-1-911604-44-0 February 2018 £14.99
This account of the life of Jacques Vaillant de Guélis follows him from his birth in Cardiff to his missions for SOE after meeting with Churchill. He became a familiar figure in Baker Street as a recruiting and conducting officer until he was sent to France on a fact- finding mission in 1941. A stay in Algiers in 1942-3 followed when he took part in the liberation of Corsica before returning to London and leading his 2nd mission to France in 1944. He died as a result of injuries received in a crash in 1945. Delphine Isaaman comes from a maternal family of French origins. Jacques was the first cousin of her mother. She has made many trips to France and Corsica to research the book and to meet people who had worked with Jacques. 45
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Bad Teeth No Bar
A History of Military Bicycles in the Great War Colin Kirsch Paperback 400 pp 246 x 202 mm BIC Code: HBJD, HBWN, WSQ 40 Colour and 100 B&W images 978-1-910500-92-7 January 2018 £30.00
Aimed at collectors and primary market – an aesthetically pleasing and historically accurate title that will please the casual reader with little knowledge of the subject but also the experienced enthusiast. Bad Teeth No Bar takes you and your bicycle to the most challenging cycling environment of all – War.
Echoes in the Silence
Landscapes of the Great War from Garda to Pasubio Andrea Contrini Hardback 240 pp 230 x 280 mm BIC Code: HWBN, AJ 3JJF 200 colour photographs 978-1-910500-84-2 September 2017 £25.00
The southern part of Trentino was one of the most contended areas of the Italian-Austrian front during the First World War. A hundred years after the end of the war, traces of the fighting are still visible in the landscape, echoing the drama of the past in the silence of nature. Taking inspiration from diaries and memoirs of Italian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers, Andrea Contrini has undertaken a photographic journey to discover the old front line that goes from Lake Garda to the Pasubio, illustrating how the passing of time has transformed the battlefields into places of peace.
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The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship Royal Armouries MS I.33 Edited by Jeffrey L. Forgeng Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33, also known as the Tower Fechtbuch or the Walpurgis Manuscript, is the oldest-known manual of swordsmanship in the western canon. Dated to c.1310, it is a stunning work of late medieval art and the Armouries’ most treasured manuscript, one so famous it has become known simply by its shelf number: I.33. This new edition includes a critical introduction, transcription and translation by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. Jeffrey Forgeng serves as Curator of Arms & Armor and Medieval Art at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts and as adjunct professor of Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of multiple books on medieval and Renaissance history, and is one of just a handful of scholars with specialist knowledge of the martial arts techniques of the period. His work on the I.33 manuscript is internationally renowned.
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Arms and Armour of the Joust Arms and Armour Series Tobias Capwell Jousting is the most iconic form of mounted combat. For more than five hundred years, the sport itself, and the chivalric culture that surrounded it, took on almost mythical qualities. Here, Tobias Capwell explains the glitz and glamour of a sport that attracted enormous popular audiences throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Though he deals almost exclusively with weapons and warriors, Capwell tells a story not of war and destruction, but of pageantry and valour. This is the story of the armour of peace. Tobias Capwell FSA is Curator of Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection, London. He is an expert on the study of medieval and Renaissance armour, and a skilled competitor in the modern competitive jousting community. The book forms part of a series of introductions to aspects of the Royal Armouries’ collection of arms and armour. Written by specialists in the field, they are packed full of fascinating information and stunning photography. Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour, with sites at Leeds, the Tower of London and Fort Nelson, Hampshire.
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1066 in Perspective Edited by David Bates
1066 in Perspective is a landmark publication offering an interdisciplinary assessment of the impact of the Norman Conquest in the 950 years since 1066. Drawing upon papers presented at the Tower of London on the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, contributors, all of whom are internationally renowned, examine 1066 from a wide range of perspectives: military, social, political, architectural, ecclesiastical, gender and art history. David Bates is Professorial Fellow at the University of East Anglia, and a world-leading expert on Norman and Anglo-Norman history. He has held positions at several universities in Britain and France, and his many books include Normandy before 1066, The Normans and Empire, and, most recently, A Biography of William the Conqueror in the Yale English Monarchs series.
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Dangerous Arts Arms as Art
Introduction by Karen Watts The Royal Armouries’ stunning collection of arms and armour provides a unique historical perspective on visual and material culture from across the world. Both intricate and elaborate, these items are a magnificent testament to fashion, craftsmanship and engineering throughout the ages. This book is filled with gorgeous photography offering a glimpse into a world of firearms, armours, swords and helmets. It includes an insightful essay by Karen Watts, former Senior Curator at the Royal Armouries and Knight of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. ‘Arms as Art’ is a new series published by the Royal Armouries. Designed to illustrate outstanding craftsmanship, engineering and technological skill, it showcases stunning items from the museum’s collection. ‘Arms as Art’ dispels the myth that arms and armour are merely instruments of brutality. Instead, these objects have adorned the great palaces, tournament fields and parade grounds of history.
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Paperback 128 pp 228 x 168 mm BIC Code: HBWN, 3JJF, JWM, JWT, WCK 120 colour images 978-0-948092-78-7 September 2017 ÂŁ9.99
Arms and Armour of the First World War Arms and Armour Series
The First World War was a watershed in human history. Beginning in the European summer of 1914, the conflict reverberated around the world, destroying four empires and costing nearly ten million lives. The years of war also saw major advances in military strategy and tactics, which were reflected in the weapons used on the battlefield. Jonathan Ferguson, Lisa Traynor and Henry Yallop offer an extended introduction to the arms and armour of the Great War, with particular focus on icons such as the Maxim machine gun. They provide a unique insight into the material culture that not only brought about the horrors of the Somme, Passchendaele and Gallipoli but, arguably, provided the means to bring peace in 1918. The book forms part of a series of introductions to aspects of the Royal Armouries’ collection of arms and armour. Written by specialists in the field, they are packed full of fascinating information and stunning photography. Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour, with sites at Leeds, the Tower of London and Fort Nelson, Hampshire.
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Paperback 128 pp 228 x 168 mm BIC Code: HBLC1, HBJD, JWM, JWT, WCK 120 colour illustrations 978-0-948092-77-0 September 2017 £9.99
Arms and Armour of Late Medieval Europe Arms and Armour Series Robert C. Woosnam-Savage The idea of late medieval arms and armour often conjures up images of lumbering warriors, clad in heavy plate armour, hacking away at with each other with enormous weapons – depictions perpetuated in both bad literature and bad movies. In this introductory guide, replete with fabulous photography and marvellous anecdotes, internationally-renowned edged weapons expert Robert Woosnam-Savage describes the brutal reality of personal protection and attack in the so-called ‘age of chivalry’. From Bannockburn to Bosworth, Poitiers to Pavia, this book is an indispensable introduction to an iconic era. The book forms part of a series of introductions to aspects of the Royal Armouries’ collection of arms and armour. Written by specialists in the field, they are packed full of fascinating information and stunning photography. Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour, with sites at Leeds, the Tower of London and Fort Nelson, Hampshire.
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Saving Lives
Arthur Conan Doyle and the Campaign for Body Armour, 1914–18 Philip abbott Inspired by a collection of letters received by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle during the First World War, Philip Abbott sets out to explore the campaign to provide body armour to British soldiers serving in the trenches. Setting the letters in the context of the terrible losses suffered during the Battle of the Somme, Abbott reveals the actions of the War Office and Ministry of Munitions in providing better protection for the troops. He examines Conan Doyle’s personal motives for involvement, and investigates the part played by another Edinburgh graduate, Caleb Saleeby, in promoting the development of helmets, body armour and shields. Saving Lives is an absorbing account of how the creator of Sherlock Holmes used his fame to campaign against the horrific casualties on the Western Front. ‘A most compelling read’ – General the Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL. Talking Points is a new short-form book series from the Royal Armouries, Britain’s national museum of arms and armour. Focusing on issues that have sparked debate or controversy, Talking Points enables authors to publish original research free from artificial length restrictions to ensure the maximum public impact of their work.
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Paperback 96 pp 228 x 168 mm BIC Code: HBLC1, HBW, JPH, WCK 100 colour images 978-0-948092-73-2 Already available £9.99
Arms and Armour of the Elizabethan Court Arms and Armour Series Thom Richardson The Elizabethan court was a vibrant and colourful place, where the inherited traditions and technological skill that had characterised the Middle Ages came face to face with the decorative techniques of the Renaissance. The book includes fascinating background about the court, government and armies of the age (including the main protagonists of the Spanish Armada) together with information about the individual owners of many pieces. It features beautiful photographs of key objects from the Royal Armouries’ collection including the Lion Armour, the ‘Forget-me-not’ Gun and the Burgonet of Smyth armour. The book forms part of a series of introductions to aspects of the Royal Armouries’ collection of arms and armour. Written by specialists in the field, they are packed full of fascinating information and stunning photography. Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour, with sites at Leeds, the Tower of London and Fort Nelson, Hampshire. Thom Richardson FSA is former Deputy Master, now Curator Emeritus, at the Royal Armouries. He holds a PhD from the University of York and is the former editor of both the Journal of the Arms and Armour Society and Arms & Armour. He has authored numerous books and articles on armour and related subjects. 54
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The Arms and Armour of Henry VIII Arms and Armour Series Thom Richardson The history of England records no more charismatic figure than King Henry VIII. His reign reveals an intriguing amalgam of the old and the new, during which his kingdom emerged as a European power to be reckoned with. Henry was fascinated by weapons and armour, taking a personal interest in their design and manufacture, and playing a vital role in the development of the Royal Armouries at the Tower of London. This publication showcases the armours made for him, his personal guard and his army, and with the aid of beautiful photography explores the sporting and military equipment of an historical colossus. Thom Richardson FSA is former Deputy Master, now Curator Emeritus, at the Royal Armouries. He holds a PhD from the University of York and is the former editor of both the Journal of the Arms and Armour Society and Arms & Armour. He has authored numerous books and articles on armour and related subjects. The book forms part of a series of introductions to aspects of the Royal Armouries’ collection of arms and armour. Written by specialists in the field, they are packed full of fascinating information and stunning photography. Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour, with sites at Leeds, the Tower of London and Fort Nelson, Hampshire. UNICORN
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Paperback 64 pp 295 x 210 mm BIC Code: HBW, HBJF, 1FKA 29 colour images 978-0-948092-63-3 Already available ÂŁ12.99
The Campaign in India Simon Riches From Captain George Francklin Atkinson, the celebrated author of Curry and Rice on Forty Plates, comes the iconic The Campaign in India. Atkinson, an officer of the Bengal Engineers in the 1850s, sketched the British response to the Indian Rebellion. Widely denigrated for overlooking the Indian perspective, The Campaign in India is unsurpassed as a record of the English attitude to India at 1857. This Royal Armouries facsimile includes, for the first time, both the text and illustrations from Atkinson’s work.
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Paperback 170 pp 248 x 186 mm BIC Code: WCK, HBJD, HBJF, JPSD 80 colour images 978-0-948092-70-1 Already available ÂŁ20.00
East Meets West
Diplomatic Gifts of Arms and Armour Between Europe and Asia Edited by Thom Richardson The papers presented in this book represent the latest research on a wide variety of arms and armour given as diplomatic gifts between Asia and Europe, or within Europe, between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The research originated at a conference that celebrated the 400th anniversary of Anglo-Japanese relations. Thom Richardson FSA is former Deputy Master, now Curator Emeritus, at the Royal Armouries. He holds a PhD from the University of York and is the former editor of both the Journal of the Arms and Armour Society and Arms & Armour. He has authored numerous books and articles on armour and related subjects.
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Paperback 136 pp 295 x 210 mm BIC Code: WCK, WQN, WCU 41 colour images 978-0-948092-64-0 Already available ÂŁ3.99
The Eglinton Tournament John Richardson Introduction by Karen Watts The Eglinton Tournament, held in August 1839, was intended to be the most magnificent and glorious expression of the nineteenth-century revival of chivalry. Archibald William Montgomerie, the 13th Earl of Eglinton, spared no expense in transforming his castle and grounds for the event. Eglinton’s guests dressed in the finest costumes, and the event captured the public imagination with nearly 100,000 tickets issued. Of all the volumes published to commemorate the tournament, the most magnificent was a set of prints published by the fine art dealers, Colnaghi and Puckle, from original illustrations made on the spot by the artist James Henry Nixon. The colour version is reproduced in full here, with an introduction by Karen Watts.
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Hardback 368 pp 303 x 243 mm BIC Code: HBJD1, HBLH, 1DBK 300 colour images 978-0-948092-62-6 Already available £20.00
Henry VIII
Arms and the Man Edited by Graeme Rimer, Thom Richardson and J.P.D. Cooper In celebration of the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the English throne, an international exhibition, ‘Henry VIII: Dressed to Kill’, was held at the Tower of London in partnership between the Royal Armouries and Historic Royal Palaces. Published to coincide with the launch of the exhibition, this definitive publication illustrates and records over 90 Henrician treasures drawn from the Royal Armouries’ own collections and from museums and institutions worldwide. Leading historians and specialists in arms and armour have contributed major essays on subjects which encompass the wide-ranging aspects of Henry’s reign from war and politics to dress and dining.
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Paperback 96 pp 228 x 168 mm BIC Code: HBJF, HBW, WCK 100 colour images 978-0-948092-74-9 Already available £9.99
Indian Arms and Armour Arms and Armour Series
Thom Richardson and Natasha Bennett India is a vast sub-continent with a complex history and a great array of languages, cultures and religions. This book serves as a short introduction to the exquisite weapons used in the region, focusing on the Royal Armouries’ collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Beautiful photography is interwoven with remarkable historical and cultural detail about archery, swords, shields, daggers, firearms, artillery and elephant armour. Thom Richardson FSA is former Deputy Master, now Curator Emeritus, at the Royal Armouries. He holds a PhD from the University of York and is the former editor of both the Journal of the Arms and Armour Society and Arms & Armour. He has authored numerous books and articles on armour and related subjects. The book forms part of a series of introductions to aspects of the Royal Armouries’ collection of arms and armour. Written by specialists in the field, they are packed full of fascinating information and stunning photography. Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour, with sites at Leeds, the Tower of London and Fort Nelson, Hampshire.
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Paperback 212 pp 242 x 170 mm BIC Code: HBW, HBJF, 1FKA, HBLL, 3JH 978-0-948092-65-7 Already available £12.00
The Indian Mutiny Letters of Colonel H P Pearson August 1856 – March 1859 T. A. Heathcote In 1858, Ensign Hugh Pearson embarked at Chatham for service with the 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment in India, little suspecting that within a few short months he would be taking part in the dramatic events of the Indian Rebellion. His letters to his family, published here for the first time, tell of the dramatic events that unfolded from the first rumblings of unrest at Barrackpore, to the shocking news of the massacre at Cawnpore, and the struggle to relieve Lucknow. Pearson offers a remarkable insight into the career of a young regimental officer in Queen Victoria’s army, as well as an enticing glimpse of family life. Peace gives him the chance to engage in his favourite pastime – shooting – whilst war offers the opportunity for promotion and loot. But as the campaign continues and his comrades begin to fall, Pearson begins to long for home.
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Paperback 128 pp 228 x 168 mm BIC Code: HBJF, JWM, HBW, WCK 120 colour images 978-0-948092-71-8 Already available £9.99
Islamic Arms and Armour Arms and Armour Series Thom Richardson The Royal Armouries’ collection of Asian arms and armour is among the finest in the world. With the aid of stunning photography, former Deputy Master Thom Richardson outlines a rich and vibrant diversity of military cultures from the Ottoman Empire to East Asia. The book provides fascinating information about medieval Islam, the Ottoman Turks, the Arabian Peninsula, Islamic kingdoms of North Africa, Iran and Iraq, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, India and Indonesia. Thom Richardson FSA is former Deputy Master, now Curator Emeritus, at the Royal Armouries. He holds a PhD from the University of York and is the former editor of both the Journal of the Arms and Armour Society and Arms & Armour. He has authored numerous books and articles on armour and related subjects. The book forms part of a series of introductions to aspects of the Royal Armouries’ collection of arms and armour. Written by specialists in the field, they are packed full of fascinating information and stunning photography. Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour, with sites at Leeds, the Tower of London and Fort Nelson, Hampshire.
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Paperback 96 pp 228 x 168 mm BIC Code: JWM, HBW, HBJF, 1FPJ 100 colour images 978-0-948092-79-4 Already available £9.99
Japanese Arms and Armour Arms and Armour Series Ian Bottomley Japan is a mysterious and beguiling country, steeped in the deepest of traditions yet strikingly modern. Here, Curator Emeritus Ian Bottomley sheds light on one of the most popular facets of the Royal Armouries’ collection, reflecting this mesmeric harmony of reverence and reinvention. He offers an overview of Japanese arms and armour from the middle ages to the twentieth century, describing sword-making, firearms technology, key military campaigns and samurai culture in the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’. The book forms part of a series of introductions to aspects of the Royal Armouries’ collection of arms and armour. Written by specialists in the field, they are packed full of fascinating information and stunning photography. Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour, with sites at Leeds, the Tower of London and Fort Nelson, Hampshire.
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Paperback 228 pp 248 x 186 mm BIC Code: HBW, TDG, JW, WCK 150 colour images 978-0-948092-76-3 Already available ÂŁ30.00
Leather in Warfare
Attack, Defence and the Unexpected Edited by Quita Mould Published from a conference organised by the Archaeological Leather Group and the Royal Armouries, this publication offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the varied use of leather and skin products in warfare. Contributors cover issues as diverse as Romano-Egyptian ceremonial clothing, Roman campaign tents, the equipment of the medieval swordsman and Japanese Samurai, Mamluk lamellar armour and European plate armour, the buff coat of the English Civil War and the fish skin helmet of the Pacific Island warrior.
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Paperback 46 pp 220 x 220 mm BIC Code: JWT, 1DBK, HBJD1, 3JH 46 colour images 978-0-948092-33-6 Already available ÂŁ4.95
Shield of Empire
The Victorian Services in Photographs C. T. Henry The photographs shown in this book were taken between 1860 and 1901. They are a window into the Victorian Age, through which the actions of the Royal Artillery and images of the defences at Malta and Gibraltar can be viewed as they appeared at the end of the nineteenth century. For the artillery enthusiast or the casual observer they are a fascinating insight into a world that has passed beyond our reach.
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Hardback 256 pp 234 x 156 mm BIC Code: HBLC1, HBW, JPH, WCK 32 colour images 978-0-948092-75-6 Already available ÂŁ40.00
The Tower Armoury in the Fourteenth Century Thom Richardson The documents surviving from the privy wardrobe, the department which administrated the Tower armoury under Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV, provide a unique insight into the use of arms and armour in late medieval England. Thom Richardson expertly brings these documents to life, showing how the previously peripatetic armoury became established in the Tower of London at the outbreak of the Hundred Years War, and grew into the national arsenal which today forms the basis of the Royal Armouries, the national museum of arms and armour. Thom Richardson FSA is former Deputy Master, now Curator Emeritus, at the Royal Armouries. He holds a PhD from the University of York and is the former editor of both the Journal of the Arms and Armour Society and Arms & Armour. He has authored numerous books and articles on armour and related subjects.
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The Dambuster’s Flipbook Paperback 54 pp 60 x 100 mm BIC Code: HB, HBWQ, WBA Illustrations throughout 978-1-904897-32-3 April 2018 £3.99
On the night of 16-17 May 1943, Wing Commander Guy Gibson led 617 Squadron of the Royal Air Force on an audacious bombing raid to destroy three dams in the Ruhr valley, the industrial heartland of Germany. The mission was codenamed Operation ‘Chastise’. The dams were fiercely protected. Torpedo nets in the water stopped underwater attacks and anti-aircraft guns defended them against enemy bombers. But 617 Squadron had a secret weapon: the ‘bouncing bomb’.
Life and Death in the Battle of Britain Carl Warner Paperback 176 pp 198 x 129 mm BIC Code: HBW, HBWQ, 1DBKESL c. 20 colour and B&W images 978-1-904897-31-6 May 2018 £9.99
Guy Mayfield was the Station Chaplain at RAF Duxford during the Battle of Britain. His diary is a moving account of the war fought by the young pilots during that summer of 1940, providing a unique and intimite insight into one of the most pivotal moments in British history. Frequently speaking to pilots who knew they may not survive the next twenty-four hours, Mayfield’s diary provides a vivid account of the fears and hopes of the young men who risked their lives daily for the defence of Britain. Interspersed with photographs of the men and contextual narrative by IWM historian Carl Warner, this book brings a compelling and direct new perspective to this historic battle. Carl Warner is a curator at IWM Duxford, where he worked on the development of the new American Air Museum. UNICORN
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Paperback 216 pp 260 x 220 mm BIC Code: HBW, HBWQ, 1DBKESL c. 150 colour and B&W images 978-1-904897-33-0 May 2018 £14.99
London at War 1939–1945 A Nation’s Capital Survives Alan Jeffreys London was a city on the front line in the Second World War. It suffered hits from nearly 19,000 tons of bombs, with nearly 30,000 civilians killed by enemy action. The Blitz changed the landscape of the city. Many famous landmarks were hit, including Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, the Tower of London – even the Imperial War Museum. Some areas, such as Stepney, were so badly damaged that they had to be almost entirely rebuilt after the war. But it wasn’t just the city’s physical landscape that was transformed. With the arrival of large numbers of Commonwealth and overseas service personnel, London became much more cosmopolitan. After 1942, vast numbers of American servicemen were deployed in the UK, and London was a busy transport hub and a popular destination for troops on leave. London at War tells the story of these momentous years in London’s history through IWM’s unique collections. Using personal accounts from letters and diaries, objects, photographs, maps and documents it gives an up-close and revealing insight into those turbulent years in the capital, experienced by those who lived there. Alan Jeffreys is Senior Curator at the Imperial War Museum.
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Hardback 176 pp 260 x 210 mm BIC Code: HBJK 70 colour images 978-9-917860-74-4 February 2018 £30.00
New Orleans, The Founding Era
La Nouvelle-Orléans, Les Annés Fondatrices Edited by Erin M. Greenwald In 2018, in honour of the tricentenary of the founding of New Orleans, a ground-breaking exhibition and companion catalogue celebrate the diversity of the city’s earliest populations. Louisiana in the early eighteenth century experienced an intense period of immigration, as nearly 6,000 French- and German-speaking Europeans and a similar number of enslaved African captives arrived in the French territory. Those who survived both the crossing and exposure to the New World’s diseases, established the roots of a blended Creole culture that persists to this day. The newcomers mingled with, learned from, and occasionally clashed with the native people who had long occupied the river-front site chosen for New Orleans. New Orleans, the Founding Era gathers contributions from nine leading scholars of the French Atlantic world and is richly illustrated with artefacts from public and private collections across France, Spain, Canada and the United States. This dual-language publication explores the kaleidoscopic array of ideas, peoples and material cultures that gave rise to this most cosmopolitan of North American cities. Also available: Charting Louisiana: 500 Years of Maps 978-0-917860-47-8 HB £80.00
Furnishing Louisiana 978-0-917860-56-0 HB £70.00
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Paperback 92 pp 210 x 148 mm BIC Code: HBWN, JWTY, AMGD, VFJX B&W and colour images throughout 978-9-082252-16-3 Already available £11.99
Passchendaele Landscape of War
Karen Derycke, Lee Inglebrecht The Memorial Museum Passchedaele 1917’s temporary exhibition ‘Passchendaele, Landscape of War’ highlights the effect of the ruined landscape on the course of the Battle of Passchendaele. We show how both armies were forced to adapt their tactics, attack methods and logistics to take account of the landscape, and we examine the enormous impact, both physical and psychological, of the resulting moonscape on the ordinary soldier. During the Third Battle of Ypres the Allies’ advance came to halt at the village of Passchendaele. What had been the German hinterland now became the epicentre of the battlefield. Villages, forest and farms were mostly razed to the ground as massed artillery obliterated the bucolic landscape.
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Dare-Gale Press COUNTER-WAVE THE POETRY OF RESCUE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
COUNTER-WAVE Poetry of Rescue in the First World War
an anthology edited by Paul O’Prey
Paperback 128 pp 198 x 129 mm BIC Code: DC, DCQ 978-0-993331-13-8 February 2018 £12.99
Counter-Wave
Poetry of Rescue in the First World War Edited by Paul O’Prey This major new anthology brings together for the first time the work of poets who saw active service on the Western Front, but not with a gun in their hand. Their role was to save life, not to take it. Hemingway, Cummings and Masefield drove ambulances. Mary Borden and Vera Brittain were nurses. All of them volunteered their services to help those caught up in the war, often at great personal risk to themselves. Finding themselves amid scenes of unimaginable horror, each one experienced the realities of the war first-hand and wrote about what they saw and did with great honesty and compassion. Paul O’Prey’s recent books include First World War: Poems from the Front (2014) and Poems of Love and War by Mary Borden (editor, 2015)
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THE CALL AND THE ANSWER
LAURENCE BINYON
THE CALL AND THE ANSWER LAURENCE BINYON A first-hand account of volunteer aid workers in the First World War
Paperback 384 pp 198 x 129 mm BIC Code: B, BG, BGH 978-0-993331-12-1 March 2018 £16.99
The Call and the Answer
A First-Hand Account of Volunteer Aid Workers in the First World War Laurence Binyon At the height of the war, Laurence Binyon spent a month touring Red Cross hospitals and canteens on the Western Front, talking to the men and women who were serving as volunteer nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, canteen workers an medical orderlies. This is his account of that extraordinary journey and their remarkable heroism. A great many women and men answered the call to offer their services to help soldiers caught up in the horror of war, often at great personal risk to themselves. Binyon himself was typical in leaving behind a comfortable job to carry out the hard, menial and often dirty tasks of a medical orderly in a military hospital. Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) was a celebrated poet and expert on Japanese and Chinese art. When the First World War broke out in 1914 Binyon, who was over-age for military service, volunteered to serve as a medical orderly at a military hospital for French soldiers near Verdun. Binyon’s Poems of Two Wars (Dare-Gale Press, 2016) established his reputation as a major voice in both world wars, writing about his experience on the Western Front, and about London during the Blitz. In 1917 the Red Cross commissioned him to write about their extensive work in wartime France. This is an abridged version of that original account first published in 1919 as For Dauntless France, and not available since – until now.
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Hardback 304 pp 290 x 230 mm BIC Code: A, AB, AC over 200 colour images plus 155 photos 978-1-910787-79-3 March 2018 ÂŁ30.00
Oleg Kudryashov Bridge to the Future Christina Lodder, Edward Lucie-Smith, Igor Golomstock and Sergei Reviakin Oleg Kudryashov was born in Moscow in 1932. He became one of the leading graphic artists in Moscow in the 1960s, but finding himself alien to the official Soviet culture, emigrated to London in 1973 where he lived and worked there until 1998. He is the only famous Russian artist who chose to emigrate to Britain and after being discovered by Ronald Penrose rubbed shoulders with the likes of Peter Blake and Howard Hodgkins on equal footing. He represented Britain at the Third Biennale of European Graphic Art in Baden- Baden in 1983. Christina Lodder is one of the world leading authorities on Russian modern art and Constructivism in particular. She has produced a number of definitive studies and monographs on the subject including on Naum Gabo. Edward Lucie-Smith is an art critic, curator and broadcaster. He has published over 200 books in all and is generally regarded as the most prolific and the most widely published writer on art with sales totalling over 1,000,000 copies including in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Persian. Igor Golomstock became well known in the Soviet Union for co-writing the first book to be published there on Picasso as well as books on Cezanne, Hieronymus Bosch and on the art of ancient Mexico in 1960s. Sergei Reviakin is an art curator and collector specialising in modern and contemporary Russian and British art.
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Paperback with flaps 168 pp 216 x 240 mm BIC Code: A, AGB 75 colour images 978-1-910787-97-7 July 2017 ÂŁ25.00
Benton End Remembered
Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines and The East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing Gwynneth Reynolds and Diana Grace In 1940, Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, both internationally renowned artists who had become disillusioned with the commercial aspects of the art world, moved to Benton End on the outskirts of Hadleigh, Suffolk. There they found a ramshackle but capacious sixteenthcentury farmhouse set in over three acres of walled gardens lost beneath brambles and elder trees. Benton End became both their home and the new premises of the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing which they had founded together in Essex in 1937. From 1940 until Lett-Haines died in 1978 and Cedric Morris in 1982, Benton End was an exotic world apart where art, literature, good food, gardening and lively conversation combined to produce an extraordinarily stimulating environment for amateurs and professionals alike. The sharply contrasting characters and interests of Morris and Lett-Haines ensured the widest range of contacts and visitors, including Francis Bacon, Ronald Blythe, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, Randolph Churchill, Elizabeth David, Lucian Freud, Maggi Hambling, Lucy Harwood, John Nash, and Vita Sackville-West. Gwynneth Reynolds, a former student, met her future husband, the sculptor Bernard Reynolds at Benton End, and it was Gwynneth who had the idea of inviting other former students and friends of Benton End to write down what they remembered. Gwynneth was joined by Diana Grace who had recently retired from being Deputy Head of a Suffolk comprehensive school and together they assembled the recollections of thirty former students and friends of Benton End and commissioned the photography of works by Cedric Morris and Lett Haines in private collections, to illustrate this book. 74
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