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 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
Taking a global perspective, this innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture, placing it in its wider cultural, political, and imperial contexts
A bold reassessment of nineteenth-century British painter and decorative artist Edward Burne-Jones, elucidating his fundamentally radical defiance of the Victorian age
A reconstruction of the so-called ?Strand palaces', where England's early-modern and post-Reformation elites jostled to build and furnish new, secular cathedrals, and to establish themselves as a world power upon the international arena.
