Sarah Losh is a lost Romantic genius - antiquarian, architect and visionary.
 
In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This vivid ...

From acclaimed biographer Jenny Uglow, a portrait of Charles II and the first decade of the Restoration: a time of glamour and gossip, drama and risk, faction and crisis.

Charles ...

Following the success of Jenny Uglow’s Hogarth and Nature's Engraver , her life of Thomas Bewick, this beautifully illustrated little book uncovers some intriguing connections between British writers and ...

In one of the most acclaimed biographies of recent years, Jenny Uglow tells the story of Thomas Bewick, the farmer’s son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood engraving with his ...

Led by the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham were a group of eighteenth-century amateur experimenters who met monthly on the Monday night nearest to the full moon ...

Hogarth's prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. He painted the great and good but also the common people. His art is comically exuberant, 'carried away ...

High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton , North and South and Wives and Daughters . In this widely ...

With contributions from writers on both sides of the science/humanities divide, this is a collection of quirky and offbeat essays on technology, culture and forgotten or imaginary histories. Taking ...