Bryan Robertson (1925-2002) was the greatest director the Tate Gallery never had. Robertson was a man of vision and flair, and this book celebrates his lasting influence over the way we look at and think about art, as witnessed through the words of his friends and contemporaries and in excerpts from his own written works.
As the issue of slavery edged the United States toward Civil War, the close-knit, influential, politically progressive community of French-speaking free people of color in New Orleans founded a newspaper: L'Union: memorial politique, litteraire et progressiste appeared in 1862, succeeded by La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orleans in 1864.
A pictorial history of The Royal Gurkha Rifles. An introduction to this remarkable regiment, its operational deployments abroad and at home supported by a wealth of photographs chronicling its quarter century of service to the Crown. This is a unique insight into one of the worlds elite fighting units.
The mention of `Faith in The City of London' conjures up images of ceremonial events in St. Paul's Cathedral, but there are over 40 other Anglican churches, as well as Jewish, Dutch, Catholic and Welsh places of worship squeezed in between The Square Mile's towers of commerce. Intrigued by this incongruity, highly acclaimed London photographer ......
In this revealing look at the history of assassinations, Kenneth Baker examines over a hundred political and religious murders or attempted murders, ranging from Julius Caesar to President Kennedy to Osama bin Laden. Assassins hope to change the world, but rarely succeed: Baker concludes that the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in ......
Chinese collector Liu Xinyan has been absorbed in the world of collecting for over thirty years. Under his influence, the husband-and-wife team Xiang Xiaoqun and Zhong Guomiao also early on began to collect glass. Their collection of Chinese Qing dynasty palace glass, exquisite beyond compare, magnificently sumptuous, and in craft excelling ......
Many people know the story of the dollar Princesses. This book however is the untold story, the husband's point of view. Written by the grandson of the 9th Duke of Marlborough. Blenheim Palace, a monumental country house home of the Dukes of Marlborough and notable as the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill who was cousin and best friend to Sunny ......
Every year, thousands of people come to the Royal Observatory Greenwich to have their photograph taken on the Prime Meridian Line - Longitude 0 Degrees - as they stand in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres at the same time. But what is the purpose and history of the Greenwich Meridian?
A Surreal Visual Journey that will Change your Perception of London
Remember the first time you saw a glowing yellow street light through the raindrops scattered across your window? Or snow falling onto the palm of your hand and watched it morph into a variety of shapes before disappearing? Or as you become older, how the tower that use to be a giant in the sky, is now just clumps of metal and concrete? One day ......
