The new Duke of Buckingham now outranked every other nobleman in England. Moreover, his seemingly unassailable place in the ...

All for the Thrill of the Chase - Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning ...

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It’s not a bad life for the leaders of the British bourgeoisie! There’s plenty for them to protect in their capitalist system ...

The most enigmatic and in some ways the most tragic victim of this process was Richard II. He is the central figure in Helen ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at. ‘I ...

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The Wright Stuff - The Invention of British Art by Bendor Grosvenor ...

Diane Abbott was born in Paddington in 1953. Her parents had arrived, separately, from Jamaica in 1950. Reginald, her father, was a machinist and then a sheet-metal worker; her mother, Julia, had been ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at. ‘I ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at. ‘I ...

On Wednesday 28 January 1756, the Jamaican planter Thomas Thistlewood made a brief entry in his journal: ‘Had Derby well whipped, and made Egypt shit in his face.’ The punishment was not a one-off; ...