Hew Locke, The Procession, 2022. On view at Tate Britain, March 2022. Image courtesy of Hew Locke / Guy Bell / Alamy Stock Photo.
Welcome to this issue of PMC Notes, which we hope will give you a sense of the wide-ranging research we support in the areas of British art and architecture. In the pages that follow, we showcase the books we are publishing this autumn, which offer pioneering approaches to the artists Anthony van Dyck, James Gillray and Frank Auerbach, and similarly original interpretations of Victorian and Edwardian architecture. We are also excited to share with you a new online resource, Thomas Girtin (1775–1802): An Online Catalogue, Archive and Introduction to the Artist by Greg Smith. This open-access publication assembles more than 1,550 of Girtin’s drawings and watercolours together with a comprehensive archive of sales, exhibitions, publications and related manuscript material. After its launch on 4 October, you can visit the website at thomasgirtin.com. Meanwhile, our three features explore, in turn, the improvised architecture of camps that sprang up during the British Mandate in Palestine; urgent issues of labour and precarity in the art world; the sometimes stuttering history of art history as an academic discipline in Britain. In addition, the event listings inside the cover wrap of this issue confirm that we are looking forward to a busy autumn programme. Our offerings over the next few months include 2