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Bloomsberries
Leafy London squares, boldly painted furniture, cottage-style gardens and unorthodox ménages: the...
Tea Room and Cafeteria Management: an Unlikely Precursor to Wave Theory
It is strange to think that one of modern economics most formative theories wouldn’t have happened...
Lombard Street – A Cautionary Tale for The British Banking System
A bank collapses, and the public rush to withdraw their savings as the fear of losing everything...
Damnably Subversive but Extraordinarily Real: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Touring Britain this summer is the Townsend Productions theatre adaptation of Robert Tressell's*...
The Birth of Mad Men: Ernest Dichter, Psychoanalysis and Consumerism
Mid twentieth-century America. In a corporate board room, hazy with tobacco smoke and whiskey...
Videos
Chinese Myths and Folklore with Dr Matt Wills
Handcrafted Papercuts by Women in ChinaOur Asia specialist Dr Matt discusses Myths and Folklore, an album of beautifully handcrafted papercuts made by Chinese students at the Ai Dao Women's Bible School in the 1930s. The stories they depict in this artwork range from...
One of Our Sixty Fine Items
LAWRENCE, T. E. The Foundations of Arab Revolt.Our senior specialist Adam Douglas shares a copy of The Foundations of Revolt owned by Robin Buxton. This is the famously rare first state of the prospectus for Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which includes the controversial...
Leadership with John Ryan
John Ryan present our Leadership catalogue which presents five centuries of print history, alongside significant manuscript and striking visual material. Revolutionaries and radicals, premiers and presidents, royalty and military commanders, founders of religions, and...