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Tempest
The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions
A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy...
In the Herbarium
The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants
How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been...
The Rainbow's Gravity
Colour, Materiality and British Modernity
From Victorian breakthroughs in synthesising pigments to the BBC’s conversion to chromatic broadcasting, the story of colour’s technological development is inseparable from wider processes of modernisation that transformed Britain....
Reflection on Color
The seminal writing of Carlos Cruz-Diez, best known for his experiential works exploring color and its properties Trained as a painter, Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923–2019) developed a conceptual platform for his work based...
The Ugly Duchess
Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance
The first book to focus on one of the most recognisable Renaissance portraits, this publication repositions Quinten Massys’s ‘The Ugly Duchess’ within its original context, epitomising as it does the Renaissance’s taste for satire and...
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Air Pressure (A Diary of the Sky)
The Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media
A close investigation of aerial war and atmospheric violence through artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s newly commissioned audio and video installation This publication documents the creation of a new work by artist...
Schubert
A Musical Wayfarer
An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert’s complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most...
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside
A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and...
Van Gogh's Cypresses
The first book to study Vincent van Gogh’s fascination with cypresses, the “tall and dark trees” that feature in some of his most iconic pictures This groundbreaking study of paintings and drawings of cypress trees...
Atlas of the Senseable City
A fascinating exploration of how the growth of digital mapping, spurred by sensing technologies, is affecting cities and daily lives What have smart technologies taught us about cities? What lessons can we learn...