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Contraception and Control: Two early advocates for reproductive rights
Annie Besant and Marie Stopes By Thea Hawlin In 1877 a woman stood up in a courtroom and became the first female to publicly endorse the use of birth control in the United Kingdom. The...
Anne le Fèvre Dacier: Homer’s first female translator
Penelope and her Suitors (1912) by John William Waterhouse The last ten years have brought particular focus to women’s engagement with the Classics. 2017 saw Emily Wilson publish her...
A shanty-song to otherness: Herman Melville and Charles Stoddard
By Andy Stewart MacKay “I have written a blasphemous book” said American novelist Herman Melville (1819-91) of his best-known work, Moby Dick, first published in 1851. Narrated by Ishmael, the...
To James Bond, From Ian Fleming
Peter Harrington is extremely pleased to present this exceptional collection of Ian Fleming material, which we will be exhibiting at this year’s Masterpiece London fair. The most significant Fleming...
The End of the World: Eugène Huzar’s Technological Catastrophism
In recent years, the urgency of warnings about environmental crisis have escalated. News reports and governments have a tendency to treat ecological concerns as a 21st century preoccupation that,...
Jane Austen, Illustrated
For today’s audience, visualising Jane Austen is easy. In numerous recent TV and film dramatisations, the Regency era is communicated through a parade of empire line gowns, sedate formal dances and...
Enter The World of Jazz
A little over a hundred years ago they asked “What is jazz”? To which Louis Armstrong made the timeless reply, “If you have to ask, you’ll never know”. But a perhaps more troubling question
still is how do you collect jazz? Our experts have put togeher a remarkable gathering of 50 items which evoke the ephemeral moment and improvisatory spirit of jazz.
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