This book features portraits from each decade of Nicholas Sinclair's career, beginning with the early circus photographs taken in the 1980s, previously unpublished photographs from The Chameleon Body and portraits of Britain's leading artists, including Frank Auerbach, Paula Rego, Anthony Caro and Gillian Ayres.
A Civil Society Response to Counter the Tide of Populism
The UK has an existential crisis happening before our eyes. The lack of leadership and the exceptional low turnout at elections are producing outcomes that is a threat to democracy. Citizenship has no relevance in a world of nomads. We aim to offer solutions to this problem.
In Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-82), An Unfortunate Genius, biographer Penelope Harris portrays an imaginative, eclectic architect of around two hundred buildings across the British Isles and into France, mainly for Catholic and gentry patrons. Starting from humble origins, but blessed with his upbringing in York, driven by passion and not afraid ......
When Iranian authorities arrested Morad Tahbaz in January 2018, they thought they were capturing a spy. They were wrong. Tahbaz was a conservationist-and they had handed him a new wilderness in which to survive. In this extraordinary memoir, Tahbaz reveals how nearly six years in Evin Prison, including solitary confinement and torture, taught him ......
For the first half of the 20th Century, Sudan, a country roughly the size of western Europe, was governed by a small cadre of about a hundred British administrators - the Sudan Political Service. Ted Nightingale joined the service straight from university in 1926 and retired (as Governor of Equatoria Province) just before Sudan obtained ......
This book showcases 40 of the most memorable and amusing posters from IWM's extensive collection of British Government wartime designs. Originally created during the First and Second World Wars to encourage citizens to support the war effort, these posters carried messages such as 'Beer: A Necessity to the Strength of Britain', 'Fit Men Wanted', ......
ISBN-13: 9781911748151
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Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
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Clare Frewen was born in 1885 into what seemed the lap of luxury, raised by a glamorous socialite and a descendant of English and Irish gentry. After a marriage to Wilfrid, a descendant of the famed playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan ended in tragedy, she embraced her independence - travelling to Russia in the wake of the revolution, becoming ......
Discover chilling tales from the frontlines and beyond with this spine-tingling collection of wartime ghost stories. From the trenches of the First World War to Britain's home front during the Second, through the tense Cold War years, these gripping accounts reveal eerie apparitions and unexplained encounters experienced by soldiers, sailors, ......
ISBN-13: 9781911748106
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
