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160 pp
260 x 270 mm | 10⅝ x 10¼ in 95 colour images
Thema Codes: AGB, A, AF, DNBF, D, DN
978-1-916846-64-7
March 2025
£35 | US$52.50 | Can$60
Royal Academician
Chris Orr takes us on a tour of his prodigious and penetrating vision of the world over the last twelve years.
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Allen Jones Moves
978-1-916846-25-8 | £35
SEEING WAYS
Chris Orr
Seeing Ways
CHRIS ORR
WITH COMMENTARY BY
RICHARD DAVEY
Chris Orr, the well known British painter and printmaker, takes us on a tour of his prodigious and penetrating vision of the world over the last twelve years.
Chris Orr was born and lives in London. He is a painter and printmaker trained at the Royal College of Art where he was Professor of Printmaking 1998–2008. He was elected Royal Academician in 1995. His narrative work is satirical and very funny, with its roots in the reality of the world’s problems. His work is in the collections of the Arts Council, Tate Britain, The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Academy. He has had many solo exhibitions of his work throughout the world and has many followers.
Dr Richard Davey is an established writer on contemporary art and artists including Tess Jaray RA, Anthony Whishaw RA, Leonard McComb RA, John Newling, Stephen Chambers RA and Anselm Kiefer. He has curated exhibitions internationally and was a judge of the John Moores Painting Prize in 2016. He is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nottingham School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University.
Chris Orr Richard Davey
Hardback
192 pp
240 x 230 mm | 9⅛ x 9½ in c. 150 colour images
Thema Codes: AGB, A, AF, DNBF, D, DN 978-1-916846-70-8
May 2025
£40 | US$60 | Can$70
‘It seems that making art is chasing after an elusive dream of perfection that sits somewhere in my head. It will not go away, even after fifty years of trying. After all this time the process of holding materials, rubbing, crushing, cradling or just placing them violently or tenderly, is what it’s about. Every action is a stream of discovery of something that hasn’t existed before – it’s a miracle and a bloody disaster. And so every sculpture leads to the next piece in the great puzzle. Much of this work is initiated in the subconscious. The different processes connect me with something physical or metaphysical that needs to be understood. In this way I discovered and dealt with past trauma. Things that didn’t make sense but once transposed into clay became obvious. In this way personal experiences were opened out into universal experiences.’
Almuth Tebbenhoff was born in north-west Germany in 1949, visited England on a student exchange and stayed. After studying Ceramics at Sir John Cass School of Art during 1972–5, she set up a sculpture studio in a church hall in London in 1981. She taught at Byam Shaw and Loughborough College of Art and Design. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors since 2003 and Vice President since 2019, she has exhibited in the UK, Germany, Italy, Russia, USA and Hong Kong.
Amy Dempsey is an art historian and writer with experience working and writing for different audiences and media, writing books and online texts for the general public, experts and children. Her experience spans the academic, museum and commercial art worlds in London, New York and Washington DC. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
AMY DEMPSEY
FOREWORD BY SUE HUBBARD
Almuth Tebbenhoff
Hardback
176 pp
290 x 240 mm | 11⅛ x 9½ in c. 100 colour images
Thema Codes: A, AB, AGB, AFKB, AGA 978-1-917458-01-6
June 2025
£30 | US$45 | Can$50
Nihil
Joshua Hagler’s Nihil explores in an absolutely unique way the realisation and consummation of the mind, process and application of an artist’s life and work. Hagler defined for himself nine key tenets to guide his artistic vision and then utilised and inhabited nine spaces in New Mexico to articulate this vision. His site-specific installations and interventions in lost and forgotten buildings, schools, churches and post offices create ghostly imaginative spaces that integrate many times and places hovering within a single moment. This extraordinary and unique sequence of work is documented and recorded in this important publication of a singular artistic vision.
‘The law of the conservation of mass states that nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed. Here lies the pathos to Joshua Hagler’s convoluted mental and pictorial universe.’ – David Anfam, Art Historian & Curator
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Jylian Gustlin
978-1-911604-99-0 | £30
Joshua Hagler (b.1979) is one of the most inventive and respected of contemporary young visual artists working and exhibiting today. Resident in the high desert village of Placitas at the foot of the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico his work is exhibited internationally and is of growing influence as it incorporates immensely sophisticated layers of meaning, history and interpretation that are increasingly relevant to contemporary society.
JOSHUA HAGLER
Hardback
144 pp
300 x 300 mm | 114/5 x 114/5 in 76 colour images
Thema Codes: AGB, A, AF, DNBF, D, DN 978-1-916846-92-0
March 2025
£50 | US$75 | Can$85
Andrea Kowch is the Musonium Grand Prize Award Winner in the Beautiful Bizarre’s 2024 Art Prize
Across a Rural Skyline
The Art of Andrea Kowch
Using timeless imagery of powerful women, sprawling country and scenes of magical surrealism that evoke not-so-distant times and places, Andrea Kowch has risen to be one of the leading figurative realists working today. The Michigan artist is a powerhouse of a painter who is comfortable working large and with complex compositions, and yet her work is also delicate, sensitive and willing to carefully embrace her audience with empathy and compassion. Here in these pages, viewers can step into Kowch’s world to meet her strong-willed subjects, live in her gorgeous settings and explore her powerful themes of love, womanhood, strength and independence.
Michael Clawson is the executive editor of four art magazines, including American Art Collector, published by International Art Publishing in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prior to magazines, he was an award-winning journalist and photojournalist in the Phoenix area. He is also the author of books on three prominent American artists: Jerry Jordan, John Coleman and Dennis Ziemienski.
Also available: Looking for Something 978-1-911604-32-7 | £30
Pam Coffman is an art educator and professional artist with more than thirty years of experience teaching studio art and art history. She received her BA from Rollins College in 1984 and her MS in Art Education and Studio Art from Florida State University in 1993. Pam was the Curator of Education at the Museum of Art in Deland, Florida from 2008 until 2022, contributing essays and articles for the Museum’s publications and exhibitions. She has also served as a juror/judge for numerous art exhibitions and competitions throughout the area.
MICHAEL CLAWSON AND PAM COFFMAN
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192 pp
290 x 240 mm | 9½ x 11⅜ in 80 colour images
Thema Codes: A, AF, AGA, 1FPC
978-1-917458-06-1
March 2025
£40 | US$60 | Can$70
Fan Zhen
Faith in Vision
EDITED BY JOSHUA GONG
Fan Zhen is an abstract painter whose art centres on the therapeutic colour field and energy expansion. Her visual creations strongly echo Daoism and Buddhism, which are mysterious yet existentialist. The paintings attempt to grasp the fleeting moments in life and engage the audience directly with purity, blurring the ephemeral and the eternal.
Although abstract art in Western senses has exhausted inspiration regarding formal languages and theories, Eastern philosophical thinking, exempt from the modern/postmodern dichotomy, offers new ways of examining the entity of art and life.
As a female artist living in China, Fan Zhen endeavoured to convey her art to a much wider audience, with concerns referring but not limited to gender, class, power and ethics.
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978-1-912690-83-1 | £30
Fan Zhen’s art stems from traditional Chinese culture and adopts a contemporary temperament with the need for counteranxiety caused by rapid change in society. Daoism and Buddhism, as philosophical contexts, have generated a great heritage of visual language that differs from Western abstract art. The book explores Fan Zhen’s art, validating the value of life and faith in vision.
Dr Joshua Gong is a leading expert on contemporary Chinese art. He was a recipient of the Young Scholar Grant, Tate Modern, 2015.
Hsiao Chin and Punto
Ceramic Masterpieces from the Tan Family Collection
New Finds of Yuan Dynasty Blue-and-White Porcelain from the Luomaqiao Kiln Site, Jingdezhen: An Archaeological Approach 978-1-913491-73-4 | £30
The Tan family collection is focused on a selection of significant ceramic masterpieces that demonstrate the evolution of technology and art in China. These masterpieces were previously housed in well-known private institutions such as Meiyintang, Xiaoyazhitang, Alfred Clark, Frank Caro, John Bodie and others. Many of these pieces were featured in prominent public exhibitions and extensively documented in dedicated catalogues. The book showcases eighty ceramic masterpieces from the Tan collection, accompanied by articles and detailed descriptions. These provide insight into the characteristics of Chinese ceramic art and offer accurate records of their provenance. The aim of the book is to shed new light on cross-media cultural history and emphasise the global significance of Chinese ceramic art, a cultural heritage that has captivated the world. It is a testament to the rich and diverse cultural heritage of China, something that all can take pride in and appreciate.
Dr Joshua Gong is a leading expert on contemporary Chinese art and chinoiserie. He taught at the University of Sussex from 2010 to 2018 and has lectured at Shanghai Normal University. He was a recipient of the Young Scholar Grant, Tate Modern, 2015. His first monograph was nominated for the best art publication by the Award of Art China.
Recently he has published three monographs: Hsiao Chin and Punto: Mapping Post-War Avant-Garde (Unicorn), Challenging Leonardo da Vinci, An Alternative Art History (CITIC Press Group) and Chinese Art Today: From 20th-Century Tradition to Contemporary Practice (Unicorn).
Hardback
Flexiback with Flaps
256 pp
210 x 152 mm | 6 x 8¼ in c. 20 colour images
Thema Codes: AM, AMA, AMB, AMC, AMD, AMX, A 978-1-917458-02-3
April 2025
£20 | US$30 | Can$34.95
The Architect’s Edge Innovation, Leadership and Practice
The Architect’s Edge is a bold exploration of architecture, leadership and business, offering invaluable insights for creative entrepreneurs and industry leaders. Gareth Stapleton, an awardwinning architect and project manager, shares practical wisdom from decades of global experience. Drawing from real-world projects, he demonstrates how architects and leaders can navigate the complexities of modern business while maintaining creative integrity. This book challenges conventional wisdom and offers actionable strategies for driving long-term value and innovation. Whether you’re an aspiring architect, a seasoned leader or a creative professional seeking to make an impact, this handbook equips you with the tools to build lasting value, inspire innovation and lead with confidence.
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Gareth Stapleton is an award-winning industry leader and Partner at Host. He is celebrated for his expertise in business leadership, management consulting and architecture, and his unwavering commitment to integrity and adaptability. His distinguished career includes global commissions and awardwinning projects for Oxford University, Apple, Amazon, The Queen’s Green Canopy, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Royal Opera House. In 2023, Gareth was named among the top 100 most influential people in the UK.
Thomas Archer is responsible for some of the most celebrated country houses, churches and garden buildings in this country, yet remains one of the most overlooked architects of this period. This new study of Archer’s life and works reconsiders each of his designs afresh, and features new documentary evidence on many of his works. It also examines his architecture within its original landscape contexts, discussing his awareness of garden design and his potential role in the layout of the gardens surrounding his buildings. This is set against a backdrop of his previously unknown travel across Europe, his vibrant career at court, his role in designing several London churches.
Richly illustrated and incorporating significant new findings, this work shines new light on an undervalued architectural master of the English Baroque.
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978-1-914414-35-0 | £30
Dr Helen Lawrence-Beaton is the in-house architectural historian at ADAM Architecture, with over twenty years’ experience in researching the development of historic houses, estates and settlements. Helen’s career began in fine art and art history, before she completed a masters in Garden History and a PhD in architectural history at the University of Bristol. She lives in Winchester, Hampshire with her family and lectures widely on Thomas Archer and the English Baroque. She remains a practising artist and printmaker in her spare time.
HELEN LAWRENCE-BEATON
Ornamental Wilderness in the English Garden
Hardback
240pp
240 x 196 mm | 7¾ x 9½ in 120 colour images
Thema Codes: 6PL, A, AGA, AGB, D, DNB, DNBF
978-1-916846-77-7
February 2025
£30 | US$45 | Can$50
Beyond Ophelia
The True Legacy of Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti
Better known as ‘Lizzie Siddal’, the model who posed for John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia, Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti is now finally recognised as a Pre-Raphaelite artist in her own right, working alongside her male colleagues on equal terms.
Elizabeth’s designs were truly original, the creation of her own imagination. They embodied the essence of Pre-Raphaelitism that her husband Gabriel and other members of the circle were striving to achieve. The male members of the group shamelessly copied the ideas from Elizabeth’s small sketches to create their own large masterpieces which have since become the epitome of Pre-Raphaelite art.
The exclusion of women from the narrative has had a major impact in creating the perception of the Pre-Raphaelites as a predominantly male artistic movement; in Beyond Ophelia
Dr Glenda Youde shows Elizabeth not to be a pathetic drowning figure, but as the initiator of a directional change in the visual development of Pre-Raphaelite art. Featuring a unique collection of photographs of Elizabeth’s work commissioned by her husband after her death, this book highlights the critical importance of her role within the Pre-Raphaelite circle, and one which ultimately led to the evolution of the Aesthetic Movement.
Dr Glenda Youde discovered her passion for art while studying with the Open University. She is now an art historian, author and researcher affiliated to the University of York, where she received her doctorate in 2022. Her current research focuses on the neglected females within the Pre-Raphaelite circle, particularly the work of Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti. Born and raised in the Sussex Weald, Glenda now lives in Derbyshire.
GLENDA YOUDE
Hardback
160 pp
240 x 170 mm | 6¾ x 9½ in c. 80 colour and B&W images
Thema Codes: DN, DNB, DNBH, D 978-1-916846-71-5
March 2025
£25 | US$37.95 | Can$42.95
A Bloomsbury Ingénue
The Lives and Loves of Euphemia Lamb
Euphemia Lamb was painted and sculpted by many renowned artists during the period before the First World War, such as Augustus John, Henry Lamb, Ambrose McEvoy, Jacob Epstein and James Dickson Innes. She was at the vanguard of modern British art. She was also a literary muse for many leading writers of the period, including Virginia Woolf, Henri Pierre Roche and Aleister Crowley.
Euphemia was the embodiment of the modern woman: sexually liberated, hard-working and ambitious. She used her connections in bohemian London and Paris to educate herself and advance the notion of what a woman could be in early twentieth-century British society. Euphemia was a pioneer who broke down barriers and her legacy survives in art and literature.
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Andrea Obholzer is currently studying for a MA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, having previously studied at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. She worked for twenty-five years as a child psychotherapist in the NHS. She is married with three adult sons and lives in London.
ANDREA OBHOLZER
The Women who Shaped Modern Art in Britain
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224 pp
234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in c. 30 colour images
Thema Codes: NHDN, NH, NHD, A, AGA 978-1-916846-67-8
February 2025
£30 | US$45 | Can$50
Antwerp and The Golden Age Culture, Conflict and Commerce
RICHARD WILLMOTT
A remarkable painting by the Antwerp painter Maerten de Vos, Moses Showing the Tablets of the Law to the Israelites, shows wealthy merchants, artists and poets, a ground-breaking botanist, a pioneer in women’s education, and the greatest publisher of the age gathered around a portrayal of Moses and Aaron with the stone tablets of the law engraved with the Ten Commandments in Dutch.
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In searching for an answer to the question of what brought together this diverse group of influential people in sixteenth-century Antwerp, Richard Willmott turns to their letters, diaries, friendship albums and poetry to write a group biography. As he finds out more about each life and explores the links that brought them together, he shows how a network of friendship and exchange of scholarly ideas that crossed the Channel and Europe’s borders lay behind the rich civilisation of sixteenth-century Antwerp, until it was destroyed by the struggle for political and religious power in the Eighty Years War when the Dutch fought the Spanish for independence.
Richard Willmott read English at Cambridge University and took an MA in Early Modern French Literature at the University of East Anglia. He has taught literature all his life. His other books include an introduction to metaphysical poetry, an edition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and The Voluble Soul, a monograph on the poetry of the priest and poet Thomas Traherne. In retirement he has chaired the Traherne Association and enjoys stewarding in Hereford Cathedral’s early modern chained library, and visiting art galleries.
Hardback
272 pp
245 x 245 mm | 9⅝ x 9⅝ in 265 colour and B&W photographs
Thema Codes: AJ, AJC, AJCD, AJF 978-1-916846-93-7
June 2025
£50 | US$75 | Can$85
and Performers
My Portobello Road
BRIAN JAQUEST
Pedlars, Poseurs and Performers is a compelling insight into the world of the Portobello Street market. Fifty years of photographs, which go beyond the stalls, shops and cafés normally associated with it. Each picture features, where possible, the subject’s name and the date the picture was taken. Some of the characters shared their stories with Brian Jaquest while being photographed in his studio.
The non-conformist approach to the layout of the book represents the chaotic experience of a street market. The photographs and texts describe each category in the book’s title: pedlars, poseurs and performers.
This book is not only a visual record of the characters who have made the Portobello Street market famous over generations but is also a collection of fascinating photographs taken from the point of view of an insider. Pedlars, Poseurs and Performers is an in-depth photographic history which takes the reader into the ticking heart of the Portobello Road.
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Roger Bamber
978-1-911397-16-8 | £40
Brian Jaquest started his photographic career in the 1960s as a tea boy and messenger for a busy London studio. He was given the opportunity to work in the darkroom and eventually assisted one of the photographers. Finally he was allocated his own space and clients, shooting fashion both in the studio and on location. After a few years’ experience he went freelance, sharing a space in Hampstead. Then in 1970 he moved into his own studio in Portobello Road, West London and has lived and worked there ever since, mostly on commissions for advertising agencies as a still-life photographer.
Pedlars, Poseurs
Hardback
288 pp
280 x 220 mm | 8¼ x 11 in c. 1,000 colour images
Thema Codes: AVR, AVRL, AVRS, WCXM, AKP
978-1-916846-69-2
March 2025
£60 | US$90 | Can$100
German Jazz Guitars
The Archtop Guitar in Post-War Central Europe
BROWN
Most guitarists today think of the USA as the land of the guitar. Classical guitars come from Spain but rock, jazz and folk guitars must surely be American? They know the ‘great’ names – Gibson, Epiphone, Fender, Gretsch, Martin. How many of them know that Christian Friedrich Martin was born in Markneukirchen, Germany, in 1796 and emigrated to the USA at the age of thirty-seven?
The Bate Collection is a museum of musical instruments in the University of Oxford and owns a collection of guitars donated by the author. Half of them were made by German-speaking Czech craftsmen expelled from their homeland after the Second World War, resettling in Bavaria; the other half by their former neighbours in Saxony, with whom they had worked closely for three centuries but who now found themselves behind the Iron Curtain.
This book offers a summary of the socio-political background and the way it led to the decline and almost the extinction of what was once the most productive centre of stringed-instrument making in the world. Lavishly illustrated with photos of all of the carefully-researched instruments in the collection, plus a unique guide to help the collector to identify the maker of his instrument.
With a degree in German, Cameron Brown, a retired publisher and former merchant bank director has also performed as a musician throughout his adult life. In retirement he moved beyond the M25 where he chairs his local history society and is treasurer of the charity Compassion in Dying.
CAMERON
Hardback
176 pp
215 x 135 mm | 5⅜ x 8½ in 32 colour and B&W images
What does it mean to obsess about clothes and appearances? For some of us, deciding what to wear can involve tension and torment as well as delight. What do we mean by ‘looking classy’ or ‘power dressing’? What are the connections – or contradictions – between dress and desire, glamour and feminism? Do our choices reflect or challenge social values and constraints in women’s lives? Appearances is both memoir and cultural history. It considers attitudes to personal appearance through four generations of women in the author’s family, weaving memory through a wideranging exploration of fashion, femininity and feminism in the recent past.
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Carol Dyhouse writes on the social history of women, education and popular culture. Her previous publications include Glamour: Women, History, Feminism (2011), Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women (2013), Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire (2017) and Love Lives, From Cinderella to Frozen (2021). Carol is emeritus professor of history at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
CAROL DYHOUSE
Hardback
224 pp
234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in c. 80 colour images
Thema Codes: D, DNB, DNBH, NH
978-1-916846-66-1
February 2025
£25 | US$37.95 | Can$42.95
Lady Pamela Berry Passion, Politics and Power
This is a biography lightened with the intimate tone of a social memoir, about a woman who was both a bystander and protagonist through some fifty years of twentieth-century British history. Pamela Berry was the daughter of the famous and brilliant self-made politician and lawyer, F.E.Smith, the first Earl of Birkenhead, and married the son of another self-made buccaneer, William Berry from south Wales, who became Viscount Camrose and the owner of a group of national newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph. She had an unusually glamorous and precocious upbringing, spoiled by her adoring father and much photographed by Cecil Beaton, and in her prime used her position as a newspaper proprietor’s wife to become the most famous political and press hostess of her generation, harnessing her beauty and wit to influence the successive governments of the day.
Harriet Cullen is a freelance writer and has contributed to History Today, the Daily Telegraph, the Keats-Shelley Review and Starhaven Press. She is married to the Argentine novelist Martín Cullen, has two sons, and lives between Argentina and London. For many years she was Chair of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association.
HARRIET CULLEN
Hardback
256 pp
240 x 170 mm | 6¾ x 9½ in c. 70 colour images
Thema Codes: D, DNBF, A, AB, AGA, AGB, DNB
978-1-916846-78-4
June 2025
£27.99 | US$41.95 | Can$47.95
Out of the Shadows Rediscovering Maria Cosway
The beautiful Anglo-Italian artist Maria Cosway was one of the most talented and dynamic women active in Regency England, but one whose achievements have been largely overlooked. Born in Florence in 1760, she was acclaimed at an early age as both a painter and a musician. She exhibited forty-one paintings at the Royal Academy summer exhibition between 1781 and 1801, and hosted regular musical soirées at the Pall Mall house she shared with her husband, Richard Cosway. They were attended by the political and cultural elite of London.
The Highly Peculiar Tale of English and the English
How did a marginal dialect spoken in the late ninth century by 200,000 people become the world’s language spoken by 1.6 million people today?
Written by British businessman and theatre impresario
Sir Rupert Gavin
Maria’s extraordinary network of connections to the great and the good of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, included friendships with, among others, Thomas Jefferson, the Prince of Wales, Pasquale Paoli, the artist Jacques-Louis David, the opera singer Luigi Marchesi, the Duchess of Devonshire, the actress and writer Mary Robinson, and members of the Bonaparte family. Estranged from her husband by 1801, Maria Cosway largely gave up painting and reinvented herself as a progressive educator, founding schools for young women: first in Lyon, later in Lodi, Italy. In recognition of her achievements at Lodi, the Emperor of Austria made her a baroness.
Diane Boucher was born in London and has an MA in History of Art from University College London. From 1998–2002, she was Research Director for the Commission for Looted Art in Europe. She later moved to the United States, where she worked at the Crab Tree Collection of American and British Arts and Crafts, and then at the Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia. She has published magazine articles and books on the arts and interior design. She lives in London and Suffolk with her husband and has two grown-up children.
In Amorous or Loving – The Highly Peculiar Tale of English and the English, Sir Rupert Gavin charts the unique evolution of our language into the resulting hodge-podge that is now the lingua franca of the world. He argues that English is ideal as the global language, not just by accident of history, but by fundamental construction and constitution. Further, he examines how all of this was determined not just by our unique language, but also our geography, our weather, our religion, the extraordinary status of London, and by a handful of inspirational figures – some well-known and some hardly known today at all.
Sir Rupert Gavin has been a central figure in the UK’s cultural, historical, media and business worlds for the last forty years. He has held senior roles in BBC Worldwide, British Telecom, Odeon Cinemas, Historic Royal Palaces, Honours Committee for Arts and Media, National Film and Television School, Contemporary Art Society, and been Master of the Grocers’ Company in the City. He is currently Chairman of the English National Ballet, and the cinema chain The Living Room Cinema. He is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society. He has produced or co-produced over 200 theatre shows in the West End, Broadway or globally, including some of the most ground-breaking work of the last few decades, winning twenty-four Olivier awards for the productions themselves. He was knighted for services to drama, the arts, heritage and the economy in 2023.
Behind the scenes in Bali – the true story of REAL vanilla.
Real Vanilla Nature’s Unsung Hero The Rather Large Story of LittlePod
In Real Vanilla, Nature’s Unsung Hero LittlePod’s founder Janet Sawyer tells of her company’s mission over the last fifteen years to save real vanilla which was under threat of being lost within a generation. They have made a huge difference, encouraging the development of vanilla paste in a tube, supporting farming communities in the world’s equatorial regions and educating consumers all around the world about the importance and value of vanilla to the planet.
Through LittlePod supporting a pioneering polyculture orchard in Indonesia, it has helped educate future generations about a precious plant that is the essence of sustainability.
This is a fascinating story of how a determined woman used the ‘empty nest’ time in her life to build a company whilst learning about biodiversity, supporting farmers’ livelihoods and creating a family of human relationships – fondly known as ‘LittlePodders’.
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Veerni
978-1-916846-16-6 | £25
Janet Sawyer MBE BEM is the founder and Managing Director of LittlePod, an award-winning natural ingredients company specialising in real vanilla Having developed an innovative vanilla paste in a tube, Janet helped to establish LittlePod’s pioneering orchard in Bali, Indonesia. LittlePod won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2018 and the King’s Award for Enterprise in 2023, both in the Sustainable Development category. Janet was awarded the British Empire Medal for her services to culture and employment in 2012 and the Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2020 in recognition of LittlePod’s services to international trade, sustainability and exports.
JANET SAWYER
Hardback
288 pp
216 x 140 mm | 5½ x 8½ in 53 B&W images and 1 map
Thema Codes: QDHA, JBCC9, QD, QDH, NHC, WTL
978-1-916846-63-0
January 2025
£16.99 | US$25.50 | Can$28.95
Travels with Plotinus A Journey in Search of Unity
MOIN MIR
In Travels with Plotinus, Moin Mir follows Plotinus’s 1,780-yearold journey of personal discovery across India, Egypt, Italy, Greece and Turkey as he tries to understand the core concept of Plotinian thought, derived from studying the Upanishads – ‘Unity and Oneness’.
He uses Plotinus’s philosophy to observe how the free will of intellect uses ‘Unity’ for good and evil. Intimate conversations with refugees escaping war, innocent boatmen drifting down the Nile, simple farmers and monks in Greece along with observations of ancient art and modern technological accomplishments inform his thoughts and writing on the concept of the oneness of humankind – its immense power to bring good and yet its vulnerability to the stealth of intellect to destroy and self-destruct.
The Ghurid Empire and Early Delhi Sultanate c.1150–1236
MARK KERR-SMILEY
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An Irishman in Northern Mesopotamia 978-1-916846-28-9 | £25
Moin Mir is a British-Indian writer of non-fiction and fiction, based in London. His first non-fiction book The Prince Who Beat The Empire was published in 2018. His novel The Lost Fragrance of Infinity featured in Times of India’s top five reads of 2021 and William Dalrymple described Mir as …a prodigious talent, the new Amin Maalouf’.
A compelling narrative of the Afghan Ghurid Dynasty and their empire in Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan and northern India.
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The Ghurids have their origins in the mountainous region of modern central Afghanistan, from where they established the first Islamic state in India. Some of their ghulams, primarily nomadic Turks from Central Asia, were to become independent rulers, leading to the foundation of the Delhi Sultanate. At its height, in the late-twelfth and early-thirteenth centuries, their domain extended from the shores of the Caspian Sea to the Bay of Bengal and from the Straits of Hormuz to the River Oxus. Mamluks, Conquest and Culture covers both the military and political history of the dynasty and the Persianate cultural world they inhabited and propagated on the subcontinent. The collapse of the Great Seljuk Empire allowed them to expand westwards into Iran. Extensive use of ghulams played a crucial role in their success, and this cavalry was to prove decisive in the campaigns against the Indian dynasties. Their conquests reunited territories to create a transregional empire for the first time in a millennium.
The Triumphal Arch 978-1-913491-40-6 | £50
Mark Kerr-Smiley read History at University College London and has taught and lectured there. His particular interests have always been linked to the wider medieval world. He worked for over thirty years in the City of London. Mamluks, Conquest and Culture is his first book. He lives in London.
Reissue with new ISBN Paperback with flaps
256 pp
234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in 30 B&W images, 14 maps
Thema Codes: DN, DNB, DNBH, D 978-1-916846-75-3
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£25
Chasing Churchill
The Travels of Winston Churchill
CELIA SANDYS
Illustrated with photographs from the private family album, Chasing Churchill follows in the footsteps of some of Sir Winston Churchill’s famous trips to the four corners of the world, by his granddaughter Celia Sandys. She visits South Africa, Morocco, France, the USA amongst others – and recounts how Sir Winston’s trips not only changed the course of world history, but helped to shape the man who has come to be known as ‘our Greatest Briton’.
Celia Sandys is a granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill and the author of From Winston with Love and Kisses: The Young Churchill and Churchill Wanted: Dead or Alive. She lectures widely in the US and Britain. She lives in Wiltshire, England.
The Electrification of British Railways. Trials, Tribulations and Successes
Written by John Buxton and Don Heath, two experienced rail professionals, Lines of Power delivers a comprehensive record of the stuttering progress of electrification and modernisation of Britain’s railway network, exposing the furtive manoeuvring by competing factions within the railway industry during the 1950s. The book is highly critical of the excessive scepticism of the Department of Transport (DoT later DfT) and the frequent disproportionate, and often imprudent, interventions by politicians that have collectively thwarted the opportunity to progress a more comprehensive and cost effective ‘rolling programme’ of electrification.
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John Buxton headed up an Engineering Division of British Railways and was Managing Director of Cardiff Railway Company. John set up Cambrian Transport in 1995 specialising in rail infrastructure, traction and electrification projects. He has worked extensively in the UK and in Ireland, Canada and the Middle East, including Metro schemes in Toronto, Doha and Riyadh.
Don Heath has held senior positions in British Railways Research Department, the London Midland region, Transmark in 1976 to work on the design of a new line in Iran. In 1982 he became a founder member of the Major Projects Department (appointed a Director in 1988) from where he successfully led the electrification of the East Coast Main Line. In 1991 he took charge of the BR input into the joint LUL/BR CrossRail project team. He became an independent consultant at privatisation, and clients included Chiltern Railways, Virgin West Coast and Network Rail. He retired in 2017.
JOHN BUXTON AND DON HEATH
Bob Reid’s Railway Revolution
Hardback
320 pp
234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in
Thema Codes: K, KCL, KF, KFF, KFFM
978-1-917458-04-7
February 2025
£20 | US$30 | Can$34.95
Capital Offence Why Some Benefit At Your Expense
In Capital Offence award-winning investor Paul Musson shows how the world is becoming increasingly divided on many fronts. One of the root causes of this is that well-intended policymakers have drunk the something-from-nothing Kool-Aid and are convinced that there is such a thing as a free lunch. There isn’t. They believe that debt-fueled spending is what leads to economic prosperity. It doesn’t.
The direct result of these central bank-supported policies is growing wealth disparity where some people are able to extract more from our economic system than they create, while others are left to foot the bill. Most books on this subject speak in a language understood only by those steeped in financial jargon; Paul Musson uses everyday language and analogies to help readers understand why the economy is moving in the wrong direction.
The next generation is now poised to be worse off than its predecessors, not because they are less productive, but because older generations are benefiting at their expense – an unsustainable and immoral reality.
Paul Musson gives us steps for reform, and while the painful choices ahead are inevitable, facing them now will prevent even greater consequences later.
Paul Musson spent more than twenty years managing over $10 billion in assets at Mackenzie Investments in Toronto. He now runs his own investment consulting firm Paddington Capital Management Inc. and has a blog called Paulitical Economy. He started the blog in 2022 to help his family and friends understand what was going on in the economy. He was born in north Wales, UK, grew up in Montreal and since 1990 has lived in the Toronto area. Paul has been married since 1993 and has three daughters.
Hardback
224 pp
197 x 135 mm | 5⅜ x 7¾ in Thema Codes: KJ, KJH, KJD, KJF, KJM, KJU 978-1-917458-09-2
January 2025
£20 | US$30 | Can$34.95
The Entrepreneur Within How to Forge Innovation-led Growth by Embracing the Inner Entrepreneur
The Entrepreneur Within is an innovator’s playbook to help ideas gain traction, scale quickly and keep an entrepreneurial mindset alive within any organisation. Large companies often lose the creative spark that brought them success and get weighed down by the complex systems built up within them. Start-up companies often get bloated with too many disparate ideas and get blocked by a lack of basic systems and infrastructure. The proprietary FORGE® Methodology shows how businesses of all stages and sizes can develop creative and viable innovation that makes a difference.
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Mark Roberts has experience leading innovation from very diverse perspectives while being able to identify a common thread. He is an entrepreneur (Founder of Beer Hawk, exited to AB InBev), an intrapreneur (CEO of Perfect Draft), Chair for Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), an Angel Investor and Board Adviser (NED). He mixes coaching the leadership teams of established businesses, with founding new ventures through his Red Line Foundry business. The FORGE® Methodology is the culmination of twenty-five years of building businesses and has helped create hundreds of millions of dollars of value.
From Market to Stock Market is the astonishing story of Bill Adderley who, from the humblest of beginnings, created one of the most successful retail chains in Britain today. Dunelm, Britain’s leading homeware group, has over 180 superstores and a market value on the London Stock Exchange of £2.2 billion.
The son of poor Irish immigrants, Bill grew up in a council house in Leeds, sharing a bed with his three brothers. He got his first job at fifteen, working as a ‘Saturday Boy’ at the local Woolworth, and went on to become a Woolworth manager when he was twentyone. In the 1970s however Woolworth’s went into steep decline and Bill left to start up his own business, selling seconds and reject goods on a stall in Leicester market. His first coup was a truckload of reject slippers, followed by reject Marks & Spencer curtains from which he made enough money to start a company that grew into the Dunelm homeware furnishings group.
In 2006, Dunelm Group Plc listed on the stock market, since when the shares have increased six-fold. At the age of fifty-eight, Bill passed over the executive reins to his son Will and now lives a quiet life near Leicester with his wife Jean.
Bill Adderley was born in Leeds in 1948, the third child in a family of six. Born in a council house in Leeds, Bill left school with four O-Levels when he was sixteen and worked for F.W. Woolworth for the next fourteen years. In 1979, with the support of his wife Jean, he set up his own market stall in Leicester, selling seconds. He was thirty-three when he founded the Dunelm homeware retailing group. In 2022, the Adderley family featured in the Sunday Times Rich List at an estimated £1.8 billion, putting them in the top 100.
Bill and Jean have two sons, (Sir) Will and Jonathan, and four grandchildren.
Hardback
196 pp
234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in 22 B&W images
Thema Codes: AGA, AG, A, AB, JBC, AFP, 1FPC 978-1-917458-07-8
May 2025
£25 | US$37.95 | Can$42.95
The Ends of Art Studies Time, Transcendence
and Boundaries
This book explores the goals and limitations of twentiethcentury art studies (Kunstwissenschaft) as a field, and aims to contribute to future academic research. It is structured around several representative art scientists and their key texts, exploring the theories of influential figures in the field, such as Erwin Panofsky and Aby Warburg (art researchers). This approach allows the book to present the universal construction goals, theoretical sources, thinking logic and academic dilemmas of art history in an interdisciplinary context at that time.
Professor Fan Baiding is the vice dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, China Academy of Art. His research covers issues related to the history of art historiography, art theory and iconographic tradition.
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FAN BAIDING
BILL ADDERLEY WITH IVAN FALLON
Hardback
256 pp
280 x 215 mm | 8½ x 11 in 120 B&W images
Thema Codes: JNLP, JN, JNL, JNB, NH
978-1-916846-65-4
January 2025
£50 | US$75 | Can$85
Stonyhurst 1884–1914
Portrait of an English Catholic School
Stonyhurst 1884–1914 gives a full account of the Jesuit school Stonyhurst College during the years when it was at its height as the leading Catholic public school in England. The study is fully situated in the social history of the time, including the public school world itself. It describes school life, the academic standards of the time and the personalities who were responsible for them.
This was a time when Stonyhurst produced a colourful range of alumni, from an archduke, through a son of Oscar Wilde, five VCs and many famous Church figures, to the MI5 officer Frank Foley, who was responsible for saving 10,000 Jews from Nazi Germany. The book substantiates the claim that ‘Stonyhurst was a supremely effective institution’, not merely keeping its position as the academic leader of the Catholic schools but holding to a distinctive religious system of education and providing the driving force for a flourishing Jesuit mission in England.
Henry Sire was born in Barcelona, of a family of French ancestry. He was educated at Stonyhurst College and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he took a degree in Modern History. He has previously published five books of history and biography, besides articles and contributions to symposia. He currently lives in London.
Bradfield College first opened in 1850 and this is a pictorial celebration of its rich history. Located in the Pang Valley, Berkshire the school was founded by the Reverend Thomas Stevens and originally called Saint Andrew’s College. This book is a beautifully illustrated social history of the buildings, its traditions and challenges, including contributions from students and staff. Bradfield 175 follows changes in education and society from the nineteenth century through to the successful institution it is today.
Oliver Gent is a teacher of English and Classics at Bradfield College. He lives in the village with his wife and son.
H.J.A. SIRE
OLIVER GENT
Hardback
Paperback
204 pp
238 x 196 mm | 7¾ x 9¼ in 120 photographs
Thema Codes: NHW, NHWR7 978-1-912423-91-0
April 2025
£20 | US$30 | Can$34.95
D-Day to VE Day
Month by Month
PETER JOHNSTON
On the evening of 5 June 1944, the people of Britain braced for news that would truly change the course of history. Ships and landing craft assembled in the Channel, paratroopers prepared for flight and troops readied for action. A brief announcement the following morning declared that D-Day had finally arrived. It would be the start of a long and arduous campaign to liberate Europe from the tyranny of Nazi occupation and defeat Hitler once and for all.
D-Day to VE Day narrates the final year of the Second World War in Europe, from the Normandy landings to the joyous celebrations of VE Day. It draws on the Imperial War Museum’s vast photography collection to chart and illustrate the Allies’ journey through war-torn Europe during those crucial months, moment by moment and day-by-day.
Hardback
240 pp
280 x 235 mm | 9¼ x 11 in 150 colour and B&W images
Thema Codes: NHW, NHWR7 978-1-912423-92-7
April 2025
£35 | US$52.50 | Can$60
A Visual History
1945 – one of the most important years in modern history. Encompassing not only the celebration of peace and an end to the Second World War, but also the devastating first use of nuclear weapons and the long shadow cast by both this and the legacy of the worldwide conflagration. In this landmark publication, Anthony Richards tells the story of this momentous year through the unique collections of the Imperial War Museum, using personal testimony and rarely seen imagery to consider the wide-ranging experiences of that twelvemonth period. From continued fighting through north-west Europe, South East Asia and the Pacific to the liberation of the concentration camps, while encompassing the post-war desire for reconstruction, repatriation and justice, 1945: A Visual History guides readers through this year of unprecedented change, which laid the foundations for the modern world.
Follow in the footsteps of the Allies in real time as they liberate Paris, fight through the dense Ardennes Forest during the Battle of the Bulge and cross the mighty Rhine River, paving the way for the final push towards Berlin. Along the way, you’ll discover the key strategic operations, battles and crucial turning points that marked the Allies’ march towards ultimate victory over Nazi Germany.
Peter Johnston is Assistant Director of Narrative and Content at the Imperial War Museum.
Anthony Richards is Head of Documents and Sound at Imperial War Museums. He is the author of two other best-selling ‘Visual History’ titles, D-Day and Normandy and The Somme as well as many other books for IWM Publishing.
ANTHONY RICHARDS
Mustang Flip Book
Paperback 160 pp 60 x 100 mm | 3⅞ x 2⅜ in
Thema Codes: NHW, NHWR7
978-1-912423-90-3 · May 2025
£4.50 | US$8.95 | Can$10.95
In 1940, Britain was engaged in a desperate struggle against relentless assaults from the Luftwaffe. The demand for new aircraft was immense and to meet the need, British manufacturers turned to American companies like Curtiss and North American Aviation for help. North American introduced a new state-of the-art aircraft and one of the greatest fighters of the Second World War: the P-51 Mustang. It could fly and fight with Allied bombers all the way to Berlin and back. Its range was so extensive that it began to replace Spitfires towards the end of the war. By 1944, the Allies had achieved air superiority over Western Europe, partly due to the exceptional capabilities of the Mustang. Using rare archival footage from the Imperial War Museum’s unique collection, this flip book recreates the impressive manoeuvrers of the North American P-51 Mustang.
IWM has managed a Film Archive since it was first established in 1917. The constantly growing collection extends to over 25,000 hours of moving images, representing a wide and diverse range of material from public and service information films, documentaries and unedited combat film, through to official newsreels and amateur films.
Victory Flip Book
Paperback 160 pp 60 x 100 mm | 3⅞ x 2⅜ in
Thema Codes: NHW, NHWR7
978-1-912423-89-7 May 2025
£4.50 | US$8.95 | Can$10.95
The summer of 1945 remained in the memory of all those who witnessed it. It brought an end to nearly six years of war in Europe and beyond. A war that cost millions of lives and destroyed the homes, livelihoods and families of almost all who experienced it. Millions of people across Britain rejoiced in the news that both Germany and Japan had surrendered, relieved that the strain of ‘total war’ was finally over. Throughout the country, people marked the victory with street parties, dancing and singing. Using rare archival footage from the Imperial War Museum’s unique collection, this flip book brings to life that celebratory summer.
Postcards book
Set of 30 colour postcards
Thema Codes: NHWR7, WZG
978-1-912423-94-1 April 2025
£14.99 (inc VAT)
US$22.50 | Can$28.95
A collection of thirty postcards drawn from IWM’s extensive collection of wartime posters
Wartime Postcard Book
In commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this striking set of postcards includes thirty famous wartime posters from IWM’s unrivalled collections. Featuring thirty iconic home-front posters, including the famous ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ and ‘Dig for Victory’ campaigns, each of these postcards reveal the many ways in which design and imagery mobilised wartime Britain. This vibrant postcard collection presents the best of IWM’s visual collections.
Paperback c. 198 pp
198 x 129 mm | 5⅛ x 7¾ in Thema Codes: F, FBC, FJMS
978-1-912423-93-4
April 2025
£9.99 | US$12.95 | Can$15.95
Three Men in New Suits
J.B. PRIESTLEY
It is spring 1945. Three men who have been serving together overseas return, demobilised, to the same village. Coming from very different walks of life, the war has brought them together in unexpected friendship.
Following each man as he returns home and must come to terms with what he finds there, the novel considers the challenges both with returning to find nothing has changed and returning home to unexpected difficulties. As the men resume civilian life, they meet again to consider their futures, and what may be in store both for themselves and wider society in a post-war world, finding themselves ‘among the hundreds of millions wistfully looking on and wondering what next’.
With an introduction from the Imperial War Museum which puts the novel in historical context, this timely reprint of a 1945 classic is published for the VE Day anniversary in 2025, bringing a forgotten gem by a prolific author back into print and reflecting on the long legacy of the Second World War.
Hardback
160 pp
172 x 132 mm | 5¼ x 6¾ in 90 images
Thema Codes: NHTM, GBD, GBCQ 978-1-739154-28-8 March 2025
£12.99 | US$19.95 | Can$21.95
Buried Treasure A Pirate Miscellany
Published to coincide with a major new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Buried Treasure lifts the lid or ‘blows the gaff on pirate lore and sayings, setting the record straight on the lives and ways of pirates, and revealing the meanings behind and uses of common maritime sayings. This book is a light-hearted and informative look at some of the most feared men and women who sailed the seas, and the popular cultural representations that sprang up around them in literature and in film.
Sections include:
• Talk like a pirate: from scuttlebutt to cackle fruit and sawbones to old salt, the language of piracy is explored and explained.
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• Myth-busting pirate facts: did you know that pirates shared any treasure captured fairly among the crew, or that Bartholomew Roberts often celebrated captures with a cup of tea? What happened to pirates when they were caught? And did their victims really ‘walk the plank’?
J.B. Priestley (1894–1984) was a prolific playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. Priestley served in the First World War but achieved the height of his fame in the Second, with his regular Postscript broadcast for the BBC regularly drawing audiences of 16 million. Despite becoming politically disillusioned in later life and declining both a knighthood and a peerage, Priestley was awarded the Order of Merit in 1977. He maintains a reputation as one of Britain’s foremost twentieth-century writers and social commentators. He died in 1984.
Fish and Ships
978-1-906367-76-3 | £12.99
• Pirate profiles: meet some of the most fearsome and feared pirate figures, from Black Bart to Blackbeard, Anne Bonny to Mary Read.
• Global piracy: pirate activity was not confined to any specific region – pirates operated in many different regions of the world.
Robert Blyth is Senior Curator of World and Maritime History at Royal Museums Greenwich. A co-curator of the Pirates exhibition, he often talks like a pirate but has never knowingly committed piracy.
ROBERT BLYTH
Paperback 96 pp
Thema Codes: NHTM, NHTQ
978-1-739154-24-0
March 2025
£12.99 | US$19.95 | Can$21.95
The Anti-Pirate Cup Pirate-hunter Chaloner Ogle
Only one man in British history has ever been knighted for services to combat piracy, but his name – unlike those of his adversaries – is practically unknown. In fact, Chaloner Ogle enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the Royal Navy, rising to become Admiral of the Fleet. His spectacular career coincided with the ‘golden age’ of piracy, when trade in the Atlantic and beyond was threatened by roving bands of sea-robbers. Following a series of incidents on the African coast, Ogle set his sights on one particular robber, Bartholomew Roberts, or ‘Black Bart’.
The encounter that ensued is recorded in Captain Charles Johnson’s A General History of the Pyrates, published in 1724. Struck by grapeshot, which ripped out his throat, Roberts was killed in an instant. Ogle, however, was denied the chance to capture the pirate when Roberts’s crew threw his corpse overboard. The body was never recovered. The crew, however, suffered fates that befell many captured pirates: some were hanged, others were sentenced to indentured labour, practically a life sentence in itself.
While the exact details of how the coconut cup at the centre of this publication came to be made are unknown, it is a tantalising link to this period of history. The object will be on display during a major new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum from spring 2025 to early 2026.
Robert Blyth is Senior Curator of World and Maritime History at the Royal Museums Greenwich.
Paperback
96 pp
178 x 150 mm | 5⅞ x 7 in 30–40 colour images
Thema Codes: AGA, NHTM, 3MNB 978-1-068765-99-5 March 2025
£12.99 | US$19.95 | Can$21.95
Joseph Mallord William Turner’s The Battle of Trafalgar is one of the most famous and recognisable paintings in the collection of the National Maritime Museum. Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Turner’s birth and 220 years after the battle for which this monumental work is named, the book situates the painting alongside plans, sketches and artefacts from the National Maritime Museum’s collection and examines Turner’s contribution to maritime art and to Nelson’s complicated legacy.
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The Battle of Trafalgar was the only work Turner made ‘by royal command’ and the largest he painted. Although best remembered as an unconventional artist, with this commission Turner was tasked with producing a patriotic painting to adorn the halls of power. On completion, the piece was the subject of intense scrutiny, attracting criticism for perceived historical inaccuracies in the representation of the battle. Yet it remains a powerful artwork, which combines a celebration of maritime victory with a tribute to national a hero, an ode to ordinary sailors and a meditation on the horrors of war.
Three chapters consider: the artist and the battle; the commissioning of the work, Turner’s artistic process and specific elements and events within the finished piece; and the response to the work, including its display in the National Gallery of Naval Art at Greenwich Hospital.
Katherine Gazzard is Curator of Art (Post-1800) at Royal Museums Greenwich. She is the author of The Art of Naval Portraiture (2024) and has taught at the University of East Anglia and Yale University. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century British art and the cultural history of the Royal Navy.
KATHERINE GAZZARD
The Art of Naval Portraiture 978-1-739154-20-2 | £30
ROBERT BLYTH
Sea
Sick Lime Juice and Scurvy
Charles Hare’s Great Escape
The Story of a Napoleonic Prisoner of War
978-1-739154-23-3
With an apparently unremarkable eighteenth-century glass bottle as its starting point, Sea Sick: Lime Juice and Scurvy explores the history of scurvy, its symptoms, causes and the fight against it. Conservative estimates indicate that the disease took the lives of more than two million seafarers between 1500 and 1800, and it has been suggested that scurvy was responsible for more deaths at sea than storms, shipwreck and all other diseases combined during the eighteenth century alone.
Curator Lucy Dale breaks the story of scurvy into four parts, considering first the symptoms of the disease and its psychological and physical manifestations, before exploring it in a specifically maritime context through notable voyages and individuals who were afflicted.
Dale then looks at the often haphazard and ineffective interventions and efforts to find a cure. She highlights the pioneering experiment by James Lind, Captain Cook’s apparent promotion of malt wort, the provisioning of lime juice to the fleet of the Royal Navy and finally the resurgence of scurvy in the Arctic and Antarctic expeditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The concluding chapter outlines the discovery of vitamin C in the 1930s by Hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Györgi, who received the Nobel Prize in recognition of his work.
Lucy Dale is Curator of Maritime History at Royal Museums Greenwich. She specialises in oral history and digital collections, and her research interests include the merchant navy, the history of medicine and literature of the sea.
This is the story of Charles Hare and his audacious escape from the fortress of Sarre-Libre (Sarre-Louis), then part of France, after six years as a prisoner of war. Hare was a midshipman in the Royal Navy who had been captured by the French in 1803 at the age of just thirteen. He escaped by impersonating an officer in the Douanes, the French customs service. Remarkably, the uniform that he wore as a disguise survives and has recently entered the collection of Royal Museums Greenwich, along with a copy of Hare’s autobiographical account of his adventures. Having undergone extensive conservation, the uniform will be on display from October 2024 in the National Maritime Museum’s ‘Nelson, Navy, Nation’ gallery. Through detailed photography and a range of complementary objects, curator Dr Katherine Gazzard tells the deeply personal and unique story of Hare, tracking his dangerous journey across Europe. She also examines the materials and insignia of the uniform and traces the history of the Douanes from their foundation in the French Revolution to their role as an imperial directorate under Napoleon. The book concludes with a consideration of Hare’s experiences within the context of prisoners of war more broadly.
Katherine Gazzard is Curator of Art (Post-1800) at Royal Museums Greenwich. She is the author of The Art of Naval Portraiture (2024) and has taught at the University of East Anglia and Yale University. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century British art and the cultural history of the Royal Navy.
KATHERINE GAZZARD
LUCY DALE
The Keeper of All The Secrets
Jacqueline Bishop’s Ceramic Tea Service
Paperback
96 pp
178 x 150 mm | 5⅞ x 7 in 30–40 colour images
Thema Codes: NHTQ, NHTB, AGB
978-1-739154-26-4
March 2025
£12.99 | US$19.95 | Can$21.95
Jacqueline Bishop’s ceramic tea service The Keeper of All The Secrets is a new commission that will go on display in the Queen’s House at Royal Museums Greenwich in early 2025. Featuring the image of the market woman and various plants known to induce abortion, the service is a comment on colonialism, empire and the position of women in society. The figure of the market woman is a well-known symbol of the plantation system, but little has been written on her significance. She performed an illicit resistance to the plantation system, secretly assisting in the regulation of menstrual cycles and illegally terminating unwanted pregnancies, many of which are known to have been the result of rape by enslavers. This book, also featuring new poetry by Bishop and an interview, situates the market woman within the context of Caribbean enslavement and the tea trade. The tea service will be considered alongside other items in the Museum’s collection relating to colonialism and empire and provides a lens through which contemporary debates on the present-day impacts of these issues can be explored.
Victoria Lane is Senior Curator, Art and Identity at Royal Museums Greenwich. She has developed her socially engaged practice through working with a range of contemporary artists.
Jacqueline Bishop is a New York-based artist and writer born and raised in Jamaica. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, the USA, North Africa and Jamaica. She is the author of a novel and a number of poetry and short story collections.
Errol Francis is artistic director and CEO of Culture&, a charity working to open up who gets to make and enjoy arts and heritage. Angela Billings is Development Director at Culture&.
Hardback
40 pp
180 x 122 mm | 4¾ x 7⅛ in Thema Codes: NHW, NHWR, NHWR7, NH, N, WZG, WQN 978-1-913013-47-9
January 2025
£6.99 | US$10.95 | Can$11.95
The
Defence of Villages and Small Towns Home Guard Training Series
G.A. WADE
We are not dealing with the remote future. The Huns are coming. Will they drop from the skies and surround the village? Will sounds of battle be heard in the far distance? Or will their armoured fighting vehicles come careering across the landscape? When they come, your village must be ready.
The Defence of Villages and Small Towns is one of a series of training books written in 1942 by Colonel G.A. Wade for the newly recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries’ archive shows how the Second World War trainees learnt to defend rural villages and small towns from the threat of enemy invasion.
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ANGELA BILLINGS, JACQUELINE BISHOP, ERROL FRANCIS AND VICTORIA LANE
The Keeper of All The Secrets
Jacqueline Bishop, 2023
Courtesy Ferrin Contemporary, photographer John Polak
Hardback
48 pp
180 x 122 mm | 4¾ x 7⅛ in Thema Codes: NHW, NHWR, NHWR7, NH, N, WZG, WQN
978-1-913013-49-3
January 2025
£6.99 | US$10.95 | Can$11.95
Fire
Control Home Guard Training Series
G.A. WADE
How often do we hear commanders say they are practically defenceless without machine guns and anti-tank weapons? Yet they have hundreds of men armed with the finest weapon of all –the rifle! For general use there is nothing to take its place. Nothing so universally deadly; nothing to beat it in attack and defence. Fire Control is one of a series of training books written in 1942 by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries’ archive shows how the Second World War trainees learnt to handle their rifles and strategically engage the enemy.
Hardback
40 pp
180 x 122 mm | 4¾ x 7⅛ in Thema Codes: NHW, NHWR, NHWR7, NH, N, WZG, WQN
978-1-913013-48-6
January 2025
£6.99 | US$10.95 | Can$11.95
Road Blocks Home Guard Training Series
G.A. WADE
A road block is a tiny battlefield. Here, all the principles of strategy and tactics apply – just as much as when whole armies meet in the field. It is a challenge thrown down by the free world to Hitler and his hordes. A road block is a gesture of defiance that says, ‘Beyond this, you shall not come’. Lie doggo. Hit hard. And clear out!
Road Blocks is one of a series of training books written in 1942 by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries’ archive shows how the Second World War trainees learnt to set up and defend road blocks amidst the threat of enemy invasion.
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Fencing Flip Book
Paperback
£3.99 | US$5.95 | Can$6.95
Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33 is the oldest-known manual of swordsmanship in the Western canon. The sequence here shows Keith Ducklin and Mike Broadley of the Royal Armouries Interpretation team enacting scenes from the manuscript.
Foot Combat Flip Book
Paperback
| 3⅞ x 2⅜ in Thema Codes: NHW, SVS, NHWL, NH, N, WZG 978-1-913013-51-6 February 2025
£3.99 | US$5.95 | Can$6.95
The sequence here shows Andy Deane and David Perry from the Royal Armouries Interpretation team demonstrating an armoured foot-combat display using poll axes. Shot at the Royal Armouries’ Tournament Gallery in Leeds.
Luger Flip Book
Paperback 80 pp 60 x 100 mm | 3⅞ x 2⅜ in Thema Codes: NHW, SVS, NHWL, NH, N, WZG 978-1-913013-52-3 February 2025
£3.99 | US$5.95 | Can$6.95
The sequence here shows Royal Armouries’ Keeper of Firearms Jonathan Ferguson firing a Luger P.08 centrefire self-loading pistol. Sequence shot at the National Firearms Centre in Leeds.
Sten Flip Book
Paperback 80 pp 60 x 100 mm | 3⅞ x 2⅜ in Thema Codes: NHW, SVS, NHWL, NH, N, WZG 978-1-913013-53-0 February 2025
£3.99 | US$5.95 | Can$6.95
The sequence here shows Royal Armouries’ Keeper of Firearms Jonathan Ferguson firing a Sten MK II centrefire automatic submachine gun. Sequence shot at the National Firearms Centre in Leeds.
Sterling Flip Book
Paperback · 80 pp · 60 x 100 mm | 3⅞ x 2⅜ in Thema Codes: NHW, SVS, NHWL, NH, N, WZG 978-1-913013-54-7 · February 2025
£3.99 | US$5.95 | Can$6.95
The sequence here shows Royal Armouries’ Keeper of Firearms Jonathan Ferguson firing a gold-plated Sterling MK.4 centrefire automatic military submachine gun. Sequence shot at the National Firearms Centre in Leeds.
Vickers Flip Book
Paperback 80 pp 60 x 100 mm | 3⅞ x 2⅜ in Thema Codes: NHW, SVS, NHWL, NH, N, WZG 978-1-913013-55-4 February 2025
£3.99 | US$5.95 | Can$6.95
The sequence here shows a MK.I Vickers centrefire automatic machine gun being fired. Sequence shot at the National Firearms Centre in Leeds.
Paperback with flaps
2 x 128 pp
240 x 170 mm | 6¾ x 9½ in c. 90 colour images
Thema Codes: AJ, AJC, AJCD
978-3-960701-14-9
January 2025
£40 | US$60 | Can$70
After Nature
Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 2024
Laura
Huertas Millán and Sarker Protick
SRIA CHATTERJEE, SARA GARZÓN AND
KATHARINA TÄSCHNER
A er Nature is a joint project of the C/O Berlin Foundation and the Crespo Foundation. Every year, the prize honours artists who explore new concepts of nature in photography and other visual media through their work. The accompanying publication presents the work of the first two prizewinners.
Laura Huertas Millán (born 1983, Colombia) deals with the cultural, medicinal and ritual applications of the coca plant long before cocaine was first produced in nineteenth-century Europe. Based on the prohibition of the plant in the course of the Spanish colonisation of Latin America, she develops a speculative narrative centred on a group of women who secretly distributed coca leaves in the seventeenth century. The artist uses fiction as a strategy, imagining a fragmentary narrative about the colonial appropriation of nature and the resistance to it.
Sarker Protick (born 1986, Bangladesh) focuses on the historical territory of Bengal, which today extends across India and Bangladesh. In his pictures, he translates his examination of the colonial history of the British Empire into a photographic investigation of the present. He is interested in the expansion of railroad connections and coal mining in the nineteenth century. Travelling through Bangladesh and India, he creates a body of photographs that addresses the global, geopolitical and historical dimensions of imperialism as a key driver of the climate crisis.
Paperback
128 pp
298 x 227 mm | 8⅞ x 11¾ in 114 colour images
Thema Codes: AJ, AJC, AJCD 978-3-960701-13-2
January 2025
£55 | US$82.50 | Can$95
Erbgericht
ANDREA GRÜTZNER
Artist Andrea Grützner (born 1984 in Pirna) has been working on her photographic series at the Erbgericht Polenz, a country inn in eastern Saxony, for a decade. The building has fascinated her since childhood, and its name refers to some regional cultural history concerning jurisdiction, which goes back to the Middle Ages. Its interior contains a historically evolved collage of materials and spaces that have been linked to the memories and emotions of the locals since its opening in 1898.
Andrea Grützner doesn’t primarily show the familiar, nostalgic scenes and stereotypes of the province, such as the tavern decorated with antlers. Instead, she elaborately stages the deserted, angled interior in front of her analogue camera, using neutral and coloured flash… The result is an avantgarde labyrinth of intensely colourful and luminous shadow geometries that superimpose fragments of space and objects in a painterly manner, while their magical realism simultaneously refers to the subjectively and collectively coloured spaces of memories as well as utopian visions of space.
The large, double-sided, abstract visual compositions, which are rotated 90 degrees in the book, create a playful, enigmatic sense of vertigo that gradually triggers a way to decipher things and perceive traces of use. The pull of this extraordinary pictorial cosmos is intensified by the implementation of the extended seven-colour offset printing process and the tactile layering of different surfaces, reflecting the artist’s process.
Hardback with open spine
112 pp
340 x 240 mm | 9½ x 13⅜ in 55 colour images
Thema Codes: AJ, AJC, AJCD
978-3-960701-10-1
January 2025
£55 | US$82.50 | Can$95
DANIEL BLOCHWITZ, ANGELA BOEHM AND BRAD ZELLAR
White, nothing but white, is the colour of winter. When Canadian photographer Angela Boehm was growing up in rural Saskatchewan, long, cold winters were a constant and enduring part of her youth. The experience of deep winter, the silence and heaviness, the solitude in nature left her with lasting, deep memories. In 2021, she began photographing snowstorms in Saskatchewan and set herself the self-imposed rule of only working at -30 degrees Celsius or colder. With these pictures, she preserves her experience of winter, a season that seems to be slowly changing. In 2023, the -30 environment she sought to preserve did not reappear... As harsh and inhospitable as the cold, the ice and the endless white of the landscapes appear on the surface, Boehm came to see this environment as fragile. Winter is one of the evolving parts that make up the delicate balance on our planet. The design, layout, paper, printing and binding of this book are intended to subtly convey the photographer's experience, of taking these pictures and of holding memories of this deep winter environment on paper.
Hardback
228 pp
210 x 300 mm | 11¾ x 8¼ in 103 colour images
Thema Codes: AJ, AJC, AJCD 978-3-960701-11-8
January 2025
£55 | US$82.50 | Can$95
Potsdamer Straße 50
Berlin
This prosaic address hides an icon of modern architecture, the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. Built between 1962 and 1968, it is the only structure Mies van der Rohe built in Europe after the Second World War. Despite the radically minimal floor plans, it is a complex spatial continuum realised with what only appears to be a simple set of tools. Mies van der Rohe‘s staging is designed to fluidly shape and define the transitions between city and museum, public and non-public, interior and exterior, subject and object. As a trained architect who has been photographing architecture for decades, Ulrich Schwarz looks for ways to translate space into sequences of images. To this end, he uses precise axial camera shifts to trace movements in space, image by image. When looking at the sequences in the book, each photograph is overwritten by the following variation; the motifs build on each other and eliminate each other at the same time. This strictly conceptual book questions our viewing habits and spatial experiences in a fascinating way.
Angela Boehm Minus 30
ULF ERDMANN ZIEGLER
Ulrich Schwarz
Hardback
120 pp
325 x 280 mm | 11 x 12¾ in 75 colour images
Thema Codes: AJ, AJC, AJCD
978-3-960701-12-5
January 2025
£55 | US$82.50 | Can$95
Anna Lehmann-Brauns Stages
BARBARA ESCH MAROWSKI AND MATTHIAS HARDER
When someone in the twenty-first century describes photographs as painterly, this can be read as a pejorative or an ironic reference, since it was assumed that photography would replace painting as the leading artistic medium in the century before last. However, the photographs of Berlin artist Anna Lehmann-Brauns manage to translate the painterly into a contemporary photographic language without any irony. Whether she is photographing the Bosphorus from the window of a ferry in Istanbul, interiors in Berlin pubs, gay clubs in San Francisco, dusty shop windows of Charlottenburg junk stores, or self-built model rooms, her pictures always develop an enigmatic, magical atmosphere that attracts the viewer and often suggests associations with famous paintings. While wistfulness and melancholy resonate in many of her pictures, other brightly coloured interior shots radiate a masterful, cool elegance.
The book’s title, Stages, refers to stages in both the literal and figurative senses, as imaginary stages for everyday occurences, while also referencing phases. In her fourth individual publication, Lehmann-Brauns combines various series of unpublished works from recent years, to document a powerful creative phase.
Paperback
176 pp
250 x 200 mm | 7⅞ x 9⅞ in 120 colour images
Thema Codes: AJ, AJC, AJCD, AJF 978-3-960701-16-3
January 2025
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The End is Near, Here Michael Dressel
Michael Dressel, born in East Berlin in 1958, is a wanderer between American and German culture. His regular journeys between his home towns on the American West Coast and Berlin have sensitised him to recognise the social changes of recent decades more clearly than most locals.
His second book shows his view of American society on the eve of a historic election. The Americans have a choice between sanity and madness, between an orderly civilian state and increasing decay and chaos. From a Central European perspective, the choice seems clear, but to get a sense of the current state of mind of Americans, it helps to look at this book with its end-time title. Dressel’s impressive images show a society on the edge of the abyss, marked by extreme nationalism, political polarisation, religious fanaticism, gun mania coupled with paranoia and pervasive poverty and moral decay. His portraits are complemented by landscape photographs that speak their own gloomy language.
F. SCOTT HESS
Postcards and Poster
150 x 210 mm | 8¼ x 5⅞ in Set of 21 colour postcards
Thema Codes: WZS SMQ, SZD, WGD 978-3-96070-055-5
January 2025 £25 (inc VAT)
Che Bellezza
The most beautiful racing bicycles are Italian Rapidité Rapidité On the elegance of French racing bicycles
NIELS SCHUBERT NIELS
These tweny-one racing bikes from the Heinrich Collection were exhibited at Hartmann Projects, Galerienhaus Stuttgart between 17 November and 22 December, 2023. For many years the collector Karl Heinrich was advised by the racing bike expert Roland Wolbold (Radsport Wolbold, Stuttgart), who also co-curated the exhibition together with the collector. The bikes from Alan to Tommasini, dating from 1963 to 2004, were selected from the much larger collection for their Italian origin, beauty, finesse of design and technical features. They were photographed and beautifully illuminated by the Stuttgart photographer and cyclist Niels Schubert. Each of the bikes on display is a bright, colourful example of the diversity of Italian racing bicycle culture. The majority of the bikes on display have a steel or aluminium frame with Campagnolo components.
Postcards and Poster
150 x 210 mm | 8¼ x 5⅞ in Set of 22 colour postcards
Thema Codes: WZS SMQ, SZD, WGD 978-3-96070-117-0
January 2025 £25 (inc VAT)
SCHUBERT
This selection of twenty-two French racing bikes from the 1930s to the 1990s does not claim to be complete. It is simply intended to illustrate the elegance, beauty and variety of bicycles designed in France during this period. The title of this publication quotes the motto of the speeding postman François from the film Jour de Fête (1949) by Jacques Tati. The unstoppable human quest for faster, higher, further can also be seen in the history of French racing bikes…
Twenty-two bikes from the collections of Alexander Philipp / Subsonico and Karl Heinrich were illuminated and photographed by Niels Schubert, Stuttgart.
Hardback
272 pp
290 x 230 mm | 9⅛ x 11⅜ in Colour images throughout
Thema Codes: AGB, A, AF, DNBF, D, DN
978-6-156595-53-9
January 2025
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Munkácsy 180
RÉKA KRASZNAI, GÁBOR BELLÁK AND LÁSZLÓ BÁLINT NAGY
Mihály Munkácsy (1844–1900) was the leading figure in nineteenth-century Hungarian art, a pioneering genius who established new traditions, whose oeuvre is a fundamental pillar in the history of Hungarian painting, and whose works constitute icons of Hungary’s cultural heritage. He was held in immense esteem and admiration throughout his lifetime, owning not only to his talent as a painter and his outstanding craftsmanship, but also to his international success, a legend in the history of his development from a poor orphan to the top of the social pyramid. To mark the double anniversary of 180 years since his birth and 125 since his death, the Hungarian National Gallery is holding a major exhibition from 16 November 2024 to 16 March 2025. The exhibition includes more than fifty works of art (both well-known masterpieces and lesser-known works, rarely seen in Hungary) which, along with archival photographs, documents and cultural artefacts, help to reveal Munkácsy's life, achievements and his unparalleled rich oeuvre.
Réka Krasznai: Art historian, chief museologist and curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest – Hungarian National Gallery.
Gábor Bellák PhD: Art historian, chief museologist and curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest – Hungarian National Gallery.
László Bálint Nagy PhD: Historian, chief archivist at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest – Hungarian National Gallery.
Paperback
178 pp
268 x 230 mm | 9⅛ x 10½ in Colour images throughout Thema Codes: AM, AMCD, A, AFT 978-6-156595-23-2
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Casting a New Light Plaster Casts & Cast Collections in Europe and Beyond
EDITED BY MIRIAM SZOCS AND MARTON TOTH
Casting a New Light delves into various aspects of collecting and showcasing plaster casts, an important phenomenon that shaped European and American art museums from the nineteenth century onwards. It explores international connections and influences in the establishment of cast collections while also shedding new light on the role and uses of plaster casts in antiquity and in the era of historicism.
The volume offers valuable reflections on the intricate contexts of the contemporary reception of these collections, presenting new perspectives on their significance and future, including various conference papers and several case studies.
Paperback
200 pp
290 x 246 mm | 9⅝ x 11⅜ in Colour images throughout
Thema Codes: A, AGB, AGC, AB 978-6-156595-49-2
January 2025
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The Galimberti
The Lives and Works of Sándor Galimberti (1883–1915) & Valéria Dénes (1877–1915)
GERGELY BARKI
The oeuvre of Sándor Galimberti and his wife, Valéria Dénes, has been scattered and lost, and little more than forty of their paintings remain. Earlier exhibitions of Sándor’s life’s work failed to present it in its entirety. This time, we present the complete known material and, in addition to the works of Sándor and Valéria, the paintings of Galimberti’s first wife will also be exhibited, mainly related to Hungary. For more than half a century, the Galimbertis have been considered by art historians to be among the greatest modern Hungarian painters of the twentieth century, yet they have failed to pay tribute to the Galimbertis with a truly major exhibition.
Hardback
150 pp
289 x 240 mm | 9½ x 11⅜ in Colour images throughout
Thema Codes: A, AFKB, AGB, AGC 978-6-156595-48-5
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Lipchitz
A Cubist Sculptor and His Legacy in Hungary
JUDIT GESKÓ, ANETT SOMODI, DR ADINA KAMIEN, DOMINIKA SODICS
Lipchitz. A Cubist Sculptor and His Legacy in Hungary showcases the sculptor of Lithuanian origin (1891–1973), who became famous in Paris, selected from a private collection in Hungary. The exhibition, which includes sculptures, drawings and prints, displays Lipchitz’s early Cubist works alongside pieces from almost every important period in the artist’s life. It also highlights the sculptor’s professional and personal relationships. The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest presents this special collection for the first time.
Dr Adina Kamien – Senior Curator of Modern Art at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Judit Geskó – Vice-President of the Société Paul Cezanne, France, and Research Associate of the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Hungary
Anett Somodi – art historian at the Collection of International Art after 1800 of the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
Dominika Sodics – art historian at the Collection of International Art after 1800 of the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, and PhD student at Eötvös Lóránd University Budapest
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227 x 134 mm
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978-1-838071-99-8
January 2025
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Number 20 in the Town & City Historical Maps series
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An Historical Map of Chester Mercantile Centre and Cathedral City
EDITED BY THOMAS PICKLES AND KATHERINE WILSON
Chester was an important Roman town (Deva) and regional centre. It became a thriving medieval town, with a circuit of walls enclosing a network of streets with parish churches, a number of large religious houses and the famous Rows of two-storeyed shops. After the Reformation, the huge abbey church of St Werburgh’s became Chester Cathedral. Surrounded on the south and west by the River Dee, the city was also an important port and mercantile centre, a judicial centre and the administrative centre for Cheshire. Many of its outstanding buildings and sites of interest remain and are shown on this full-colour map.
An Historical Map of Chester shows, on a multi-period map, how Chester developed. It includes its vanished buildings and earthworks, as well as those that remain. A comprehensive gazetteer on the map’s reverse, complete with many illustrations, explains the city’s history and introduces its buildings and sites of interest
Sheet Map (Folded)
227 x 134 mm
Full-colour map sheet
Thema Codes: NHTP1, WQ, WQH, NHTP, RGXH
978-1-068709-10-4
April 2025
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Number 21 in the Town & City Historical Maps series
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An Historical Map of Ipswich Port and County Town
The town of Ipswich began as an Anglo-Saxon trading port, serving the kingdom of East Anglia. The Middle Ages saw continued commercial prosperity, with the establishment of five large religious houses and the consolidation of its street pattern, still discernible today. It was an important centre for the Hanseatic League, trading with the Baltic, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a port of emigration for the colonies of North America. In the nineteenth century it expanded its port facilities, changing the course of the River Orwell to do so, and it also developed large breweries and foundries to make agricultural machinery. In the late twentieth century it became the home of an iconic Norman Foster building.
Thomas Pickles is Associate Professor of Early Medieval History and Katherine Wilson is Associate Professor of Late Medieval History, both at the University of Chester.
An Historical Map of
An Historical Map of Ipswich shows, on a multi-period map, how Ipswich developed and includes its vanished buildings, earthworks and sites of interest, as well as those that remain. A comprehensive gazetteer on the map’s reverse, complete with many illustrations, explains how Ipswich developed and introduces its buildings and sites of interest.
Keith Wade is an experienced archaeologist, with extensive knowledge of Ipswich’s past, and draws on the inputs from a team of Ipswich historians.
EDITED BY KEITH WADE
Sheet Map (Folded)
227 x 134 mm
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Thema Codes: NHTP1, WQ, WQH, NHTP, RGXH
978-1-068709-11-1
June 2025
£11.99
Number 22 in the Town & City
Historical Maps series
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An Historical Map of Bradford Wool Capital of the World
Bradford has a long history as a clothmaking centre, but at the end of the eighteenth century it was still a market town of fewer than 7,000 people. The Industrial Revolution transformed the shape of the town, as the wool-spinning and cloth-weaving that had been cottage industries moved to large factories. By the time of the census of 1841, Bradford’s population had grown to more than 35,000, and it was on its way to becoming the ‘wool capital of the world’; by 1851 its population was more than 150,000. It was also a coal-mining town, and a centre of iron founding. The legacy of the development of this famous industrial town is a wide range of fine buildings, many of which survive today.
An Historical Map of Bradford shows, on a multi-period map, how Bradford developed, and includes its vanished buildings and other features, as well as those that remain. A comprehensive gazetteer on the map’s reverse, complete with many illustrations, explains Bradford’s history and introduces its buildings and sites of interest.
Paperback
144 pp
210 x 280 mm | 11 x 8¼ in c. 500 B&W photographs
Thema Codes: AJ, AJCD, AJC 978-1-1914298-07-3 April 2025
£35 | US$52.50 | Can$60
Summer of 1937
1937 could be named the summer of love for Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, who had recently met for the first time, and their friends Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Picasso, Dora Maar, Man Ray, Ady Fidelin and more. This facsimile of Lee and Roland’s photograph albums shows their summer holiday together, as portrayed in the feature film Lee, and demonstrates the freedom and friendship of these artists as the Second World War looms on the horizon.
Antony Penrose is a British photographer. The son of Sir Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, he is director of the Lee Miller Archive and Penrose Collection at his parents’ former home, Farley Farm House.
Historical Maps of Swansea & Mumbles
978-1-8380719-2-9 | £10.99
Bradford is the UK City of Culture 2025.
Ian Roberts is a Yorkshire-based archaeologist, historian and writer.
ANTONY PENROSE
Lee Miller and Roland Penrose Also
IAN ROBERTS
Hardback
360 pp
234 x 156 mm | 9¼ x 6⅛ in Thema Codes: TJ, TRLD, JWCK
978-1-739164-07-2
April 2025
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The Falklands Factor
The Battle that Changed the Shape of Ships
After the failure of Britain’s latest air-defence destroyers in the 1982 Falklands War, a public controversy began over an alternative: the S90 ‘Short Fat’ frigate designed and proposed by Peter Thornycroft and David Giles.
This is the almost incredible but well-documented story of the author’s forty-year hard-fought battle with naval authorities and governments on both sides of the Atlantic to prove the virtues of his designs, which they had rejected on the basis of theory rather than fact, and then eventually to win substantial compensation after they covertly infringed his patents in two new classes of warship.
With a Foreword by the late Admiral Lord Hill-Norton, former Chief of the Defence Staff; Technical Appendices; Glossary and Dramatis Personae.
David Giles, son of the famous yacht designer, Jack Laurent Giles, first discovered the possible benefits of a hull’s ‘lifting’ properties in a racing dinghy, and from his father’s explanation with a teaspoon dangled under an open tap. After National Service as a submarine officer, he learnt the principles of advanced wing design for increasing the size and speed of jet airliners while working for the de Havilland Aircraft Company. Then in 1976, he formed a partnership with the naval architect Peter Thornycroft, whose success with the design of small lifting hulls convinced him that these could be scaled up and applied to larger, faster vessels, as had been proved with aircraft.
Inchbald: The Way In Celebrating over 60 years of Interior and Garden Design Education
Jacqueline Duncan founded the Inchbald School of Interior Design in 1960, and the Inchbald School of Garden Design in 1972. War-time experiences as a young evacuee living in grand English country houses kindled her fascination with buildings and gardens before she met and married Michael Inchbald, a leading interior decorator.
Britain had no equivalent of the Parsons School of Design in the USA, so Jacqueline Duncan became determined to establish a school in London.
An important component of Inchbald courses is interior design history, which Jacqueline Duncan outlines, explaining how the profession developed out of associated trades and gifted amateurism. Many distinguished interior designers and garden designers are Inchbald graduates. Examples of their work are included in an appendix.
Jacqueline Duncan is a committed design educator. A Fellow of the International Interior Designers Association and recipient of an Award of Merit from the British Institute of Interior Design, she was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to design education. Her public service has included membership of the Monopolies Commission, the Copyright Committee, four years on Westminster City Council, and twenty years as a magistrate. A regular commentator in the press, Jacqueline Duncan has published three books on interior design.
JACQUELINE DUNCAN
DAVID LAURENT GILES
Previously Announced Hardback
160 pp
195 x 200 mm | 9¾ x 9½ in
100 images
Thema Codes: A, AB, AGB
978-1-739164-03-4
March 2025
£30 | US$45 | Can$50
A Portrait of John Scorror O'Connor Engraver, Painter and Teacher
MICHAEL FEARGUS O’CONNOR
INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD INGRAMS
John O’Connor (1913–2004), a romantic but also a realist, recorded old endangered things, high and low: churches, canals, barges, dilapidated barns and garden sheds. With a keen eye, sure hand and way with words, he drew, engraved, painted and described what he valued most around him.
Talkative, friendly as a teacher, humorous and hard-working, his curiosity about his fellow human beings and affection for, and knowledge of all things English, drove much of his best work. He enjoyed the process of engraving into his nineties, illustrating articles for The Oldie.
A scholarship from Leicester Art School took him to the Royal College of Art in 1933 where his tutors were Eric Ravilious, and John Nash RA who shared his interest in plants and gardening. Illustrated with family photographs and reproductions of his father’s work, this biographical account by his son, Michael O’Connor (Mike), was still unfinished when Mike died in 2021. It has been edited and seen into print by Josie, Mike’s daughter.
Michael Feargus O’Connor, the only son of John and Jeannie O’Connor, studied Fine Art at Newcastle University before becoming a print-maker and running a successful T-shirt-printing business with his wife, Lisa in the west of Ireland.
Hardback
360 pp
229 x 152 mm | 6 x 9 in 86 B&W images
Thema Codes: DNC, 1KBB-US-SWLN, 5PSG, 5PB-USC 978-0-917860-93-5 March 2025 £20
A Creole Man’s Triumph over Racism and Homophobia
Raised in a large, loving Creole family, Lawrence Bagneris Jr. knew from a young age that he liked boys. But New Orleans in the 1950s and early 1960s wasn’t an easy place to be out. In high school, he channelled his energies into the Civil Rights Movement. By college, he was exploring the gay bars of the French Quarter – and telling new acquaintances to ask for Larry, not Lawrence, when they phoned him at home. It wasn’t until his 1969 move to Houston that the many strands of his Creole identity – Black, white, Catholic –coalesced into a powerful political force for gay rights. In this bracing, uplifting and sometimes laugh-out-loud memoir, Larry Bagneris recalls his activist career: as founder of Houston’s Pride Parade and then, following a return to his home town, as political organiser and mainstay of the local gay community. He invites us to join him on his travels, as well – from San Francisco to New York, Tel Aviv to Singapore – as he builds community and finds family in queer spaces around the world.
LARRY BAGNERIS WITH RYAN GOMEZ
Art Highlights
Art Highlights
100 Piers
978-1-914414-40-4
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100 Theatres
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Alan Davie in Hertford
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Allen Jones
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Anna Coatalen
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Accidental Alchemy
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Along the River During the Qingming Festival
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Art and Power
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The Art of Doris and Anna Zinkeisen
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Chinese Art Today
978-1-914414-42-8
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Anarchy in the Art Gallery
978-1-914414-57-2
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Divining the Human
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Churchill in Punch
978-1-914414-13-8
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Constance Villiers
Stuart – In Pursuit of Paradise
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Everything That Happened
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Figures of the Enlightenment
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Being a Painter
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Hsiao Chin and Punto
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Like a Moth to a Flame
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Liotard
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Divine Love
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The Graphic Design Sourcebook
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Looking Through
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Lost Art
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Lowry’s Lamps
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Niko Pirosmanashvili
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Nineteenth-Century Women Artists
978-1-913491-41-3
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Romany Mark Bruce
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MacDonald Gill
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My Dearest Heart
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Titian’s Lost Last Supper
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To Everything There is a Season
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A Place Apart
978-1-911397-68-7
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Reflections
978-1-914414-45-9
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Two Lives in Colour
978-1-911604-73-0
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Two Women Patrons of the Russian Avant-Garde
978-1-913491-27-7
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Ronald Rae
978-1-911397-60-1
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Seasons for the Soul
978-1-916846-04-3
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The Spiritual Adventure of Henri Matisse
978-1-911397-58-8
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William Harry Rogers
978-1-911397-17-5
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The Work of Christina Tung Wai
978-1-916846-46-3
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Touching Mexico
978-1-916846-18-0
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Truth and Beauty
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Wilfred Avery and the Unpredictable Image
978-1-911397-61-8
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William Alister Macdonald
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Yin Zhaoyang
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White Blood
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Life Wasn’t Boring
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