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Rachel Church is Curator in the Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass department at the V&A, with a special responsibility for the rings collection. She has contributed to a number of V&A publications, including The Gilbert Collection at the V&A (2009).

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Gérard Lo Monaco is an Argentinian illustrator and paper engineer based in Paris. He has been art director at some of the most prestigious illustrated publishing houses, including Albin Michel and Helium. His pop-up version of The Little Prince has sold over 900,000 copies. He is also the creator of Sea Voyage and A Train Journey, both published by Thames & Hudson.

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Alexandra Loske is an art historian, writer and curator with a particular interest in the history of colour in Western art, print culture and architecture. She has worked at the University of Sussex for over twenty years and received a DPhil in Art History in 2014. Loske's thesis focused on the application of colour theory in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, where she now holds the position of curator. Loske has authored, edited, and co-authored many books and articles on colour and other subjects, including The Book of Colour Concepts (2024), A Cultural History of Colour in the Age of Industry (2021) and Colour: A Visual History (2019).

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David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. He has produced work in almost every medium painting, drawing, stage design, photography and printmaking and has stretched the boundaries of all of them. His groundbreaking Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters is published by Thames & Hudson, as are his books in partnership with Martin Gayford: A Bigger Message (2011), A History of Pictures (2016) and Spring Cannot be Cancelled (2021). Born in 1937, he continues to create and exhibit art, and to inspire enormous affection and admiration worldwide. Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. His books include Man with a Blue Scarf (about the experience of being painted by Lucian Freud), Modernists and Mavericks, Shaping the World (with Antony Gormley), Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud, 19391954 (with David Dawson), and Venice: City of Pictures, all pub

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Amber Lincoln is Curator of the Americas, in the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum. Jago Cooper is Head Curator of the Americas; in the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum. Peter Loovers is Project Curator for the Arctic exhibition at the British Museum.

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The definitive guide to the Bayeux Tapestry and its legacy, exploring the rich narrative behind its stitches and the turbulent times in which it was created. Political intrigue and treachery, heroism and brutal violence, victory and defeat all this is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic account of a pivotal moment in English history. However, there is much more to this remarkable historical and artistic treasure, which tells its tale with an intensity and immediacy that speak to our modern world, almost 1,000 years after its creation. Many mysteries and questions still surround this unique embroidery - and not all is as it might appear at first glance. Who made it, and when, why, where and what for? David Musgrove and Michael Lewis set the events depicted in the context of the machinations on either side of the English Channel in the years leading up to the Norman Conquest and tease out what the Tapestry tells us of the deeds of kings as well as aspects of everyday life i

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The story of modern British art history told through the stories of its women. Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle to land on a narrative that features very many women. On this journey through a fascinating period of social change, artist Carolyn Trant fills in some of the gaps in traditional art histories. Introducing the lives and works of a rich network of neglected women artists, British Women Artists sets these alongside such renowned presences as Barbara Hepworth, Laura Knight and Winifred Nicholson. In an era of radical activism and great social and political change, women forged new relationships with art and its institutions. Such change was not without its challenges, and with acerbic wit Trant delves into the gendered make-up of the avant-garde', and the tyranny of artistic isms'. In the decades after women won the vote in Britain, the fortunes of women artists were shaped by war, domesticity, continued oppressions and spirite

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'A beautiful little book in every way ... Lyrical and eye-catching on the one hand, informative on the other, their work encourages us to look more closely at the nature around us ... A treasure of a book' House & Garden The perfect countryside and armchair companion to the wild flowers of the British Isles. Illustrator Angie Lewin and author Christopher Stocks follow up the success of The Book of Pebbles with The Book of Wild Flowers, a celebration of British wild flowers and their place in the landscape. Christopher Stocks explores their beguiling and sometimes peculiar history, and reveals some of the best places to see them, as well as the conditions in which they thrive. The book focuses on around 21 of Lewin's favourite wild flowers, and include reproductions of her paintings and illustrations, many of them created specially for the book. Sustaining our long-held affection for the British countryside, The Book of Wild Flowers will appeal to anyone who loves British wild fl

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The World Press Photo Foundation was founded in 1955. It is a major force in developing and promoting the work of visual journalists, with a range of activities and initiatives that span the globe. Its annual contest is one of the most prestigious awards in photojournalism and multimedia storytelling, and the exhibition it produces is seen by four million people worldwide each year.

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David Thomson is a British film critic and historian based in the USA and the author of more than twenty books. His reference works in particular Have You Seen...?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film have been praised as works of high literary merit and eccentricity. John Banville called him the greatest living writer on the movies'.

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David Miles was the Director of the Oxford Archaeological Unit for many years, and worked on projects in Britain, France, Greece and the West Indies. In 1999 he became Chief Archaeologist at English Heritage, where he developed a maritime archaeology unit and a project to study the impact of slavery in England. He has written many books on archaeology, particularly on the Roman and Migration periods in Britain, and one on the origins of the British, The Tribes of Britain.

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Anna Berrill is the commissioning editor of Feast, the Guardian's Saturday food magazine. An experienced food journalist, she has previously worked for Waitrose Food, Jamie Magazine, Red, Homes & Gardens, Food & Travel, the Huffington Post, Healthy and Decanter. She has appeared on Radio 4's The Food Programme, as well as the Guardian's Today in Focus podcast. This experience has made her an expert on food trends, what people are cooking and what they want to cook. Agnieszka Wieckowska is a Polish illustrator and graphic designer based in Wroclaw. She focuses on creating illustrations for publishers, institutions and brands, including Adobe, Kinley and Accor.

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Simon Parkin is a British writer and journalist. He is contributing writer for the New Yorker, a regular contributor to the Guardian's Long Read, and game critic for The Observer newspaper. His second book, A Game of Birds and Wolves, a work of narrative non-fiction set during the Second World War, was published by Sceptre in November 2019.

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Alice Harman has written over twenty books for children. She developed the award-winning book about art, Why is art full of naked people?. Serge Bloch is a multiple-award-winning illustrator. Thames & Hudson published his book The Big Adventure of the Little Line in 2015.

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Caroline Benichou worked at Delpire Editeur for over ten years, where she was the editorial coordinator of books on Jules Etienne Marey, Michael Ackerman, William Klein and Robert Capa, as well as around fifty titles in the Photofile series. She has worked at Galerie VU since 2013.

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Markus Bertsch is Head of the 19th-Century Collection at Hamburger Kunsthalle. Johannes Grave is Professor of Modern Art History with a focus on European Romanticism at the University of Jena. He was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis in 2020 for his research on art in the early 1800s, early Renaissance painting and picture theory.

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