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 ...
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 much-lauded translation of the Odyssey, and ...
It is possible that Winston Churchill is as popular a figure today as he was at the height of his fame as the heroic leader of Britain during the Second World War. The recent film, The ...
A glance at any packet of shortbread will probably tell you that the romanticised myth of Scotland is alive and well; brooding heather covered landscapes, noble stags, swathes of tartan and claymore-toting clan chieftains still ...
A selection of books relating to this blog post can currently be found on our Curator’s Choice page. Peter Harrington is proud to be associated with an exhibition currently running in Rome, at the Palazzo ...
Nature writing, it seems, is more popular than ever. Books about getting back to the natural world, from which technology and modern urban living have estranged us, have dominated the non-fiction bestseller charts for the ...
During a speech in 1965, Martin Luther King said that “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” The recent celebration of Martin Luther King Day, coupled with the ...
When asked why he became a mountaineer, George Mallory answered that climbing represented, for him “the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward”. This selection of books on climbing takes in a broad sweep ...
In a recent interview, Margaret Atwood speculated that the world we currently live in is not a million light years away from the dystopias such as those we might find in her fiction. Her MaddAddam trilogy ...
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A curated selection of books on Scotland for St Andrew's Day. 🏴 View the full list: https://loom.ly/aDlsXX0
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In 1737, Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackwell published an illustrated guide to 500 medicinal plants, A Curious Herbal. The revenue from the book—lauded by the Royal College of Physicians—enabled her to secure her husband’s release from debtor's prison. https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/01/29/elizabeth-blackwell-curious-herbal/
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Charles Darwin: Notepads worth millions lost for 20 years https://bbc.in/3nVMooZ
