A bold reassessment of the major architectural monuments and urban forms of the world’s first industrial city: Manchester
A lavishly illustrated biography of James Gillray, inventor of the art of political caricature
This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture, placing it in its wider cultural, political, and imperial contexts
A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art
A dazzling history of chromatic media technologies, from Victorian printing to colour television, that reveals how Britain modernised colour and how colour, in turn, modernised Britain
Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state’s nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire
Griselda Pollock reintroduces an important feminist forerunner in this new, full-colour setting of Helen Rosenau’s 1944 book Woman in Art
A major new history of architecture in Britain and Ireland that looks at buildings and their construction in detail while revealing the cultural, material, political, and economic contexts that made them
A groundbreaking account of printmaking in Britain that explores the medium’s intersection with radical politics
A bold new study of Julia Margaret Cameron’s Victorian photographs, charting the legacy of colonialism following the 1857 Indian Uprising
A comprehensive and authoritative history that explores the significance of one of the most famous buildings and institutions in England.
How a wave of exotic botanical imports from across Britain's empire shaped its gardens.