The image links back to Jane Eyre, sequestered behind the curtain at Gateshead with Bewick’s History of British Birds on her ...

Phenomenal Spirits - Two Women by Jacqueline Rose ...

From Denying to Embracing the Inner Lives of Animals, de Waal, who died in 2024, describes the incident with Thai. Thai cared ...

Twenty-six men were raised by Napoleon to the rank of marshal of France; only six fought with him at Waterloo. Jonathan Boff ...

The Portrait Miniature: A New History draws on the collection of around two thousand miniatures at the V&A to trace almost ...

For Western observers in particular, few Japanese institutions have proved so enduringly exotic: the tattoos, the severed ...

In the first weeks of 1946, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock started work on a new project. The couple, in their mid-thirties, ...

I began reading Jeff Jarvis’s Hot Type with some trepidation. The Linotype machine is not an obvious starting point for a ripping yarn. First used commercially in 1886, the Linotype – one of the great ...

Men: do not try too hard with your wardrobes. In the 1980s and 90s, John Berendt wrote a column on men’s clothing for Esquire magazine. He cautioned against the overt posturing involved in wearing ...

‘What are gardens for?’ asked Victorian cleric and rose-lover Samuel Reynolds Hole of various people, as Jonathan Bate reports in The Garden. The answers Hole recorded were delightfully British: ...