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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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Maria Rivans is a collage artist based in Brighton, UK. She curated the images in the hugely successful Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage (2020), has exhibited her work internationally, and created a book and three unique jigsaw puzzles. Known for its surreal approach, Maria's collages are in a constant dialogue with cultures of the past, reinventing narratives while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales.

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Keith Stuart is a veteran technology, arts and media writer with over 20 years experience covering videogames and game culture. He started out on industry bible Edge magazine as features editor, covering the dawn of the PlayStation era; he has since written for GamesMaster, PC Gamer, T3, Official PlayStation Magazine, Eurogamer and Official Xbox Magazine. He still harbours a lifelong love of Sega, having owned a Mega Drive, a Game Gear and a Saturn, and edited the Dreamcast magazine DC-UK for two eventful years.

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Huw Lewis Jones is a polar-exploring author and naturalist who is lucky to have met many wolves in the wild. He is Associate Professor at Falmouth University, teaching natural history, and has written many books, including Do Bears Poop in the Woods? and the Bad Apple series of picture books. Sam Caldwell is an illustrator based in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied painting at the Edinburgh College of Art and is the illustrator of several books for children, including Do Bears Poop in the Woods?

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Pita Arreola is Curator, Digital Art, in the V&A's Art, Architecture, Photography and Design department. Corinna Gardner is Senior Curator, Design and Digital, in the V&A's Art, Architecture, Photography and Design department. Melanie Lenz is Curator, Digital Art, in the V&A's Art, Architecture, Photography and Design department.

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Nathalie Herschorfer is the Director of Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her previous books for Thames & Hudson include Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage, Body and Coming into Fashion. Wendy A. Grossman is an independent scholar and curator. She is the author of Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens.

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Based in Denmark, Mette Lange has headed up her own architectural practice for over 20 years, building houses that respond to the specific requirements of site and client, and always with sustainability and social responsibility at their core. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Eckersberg Medal in 2018.

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A fascinating guide to Van Gogh's itinerant life, with vibrant images and stories about the many places he lived and worked. Vincent van Gogh travelled widely through various countries in Europe on foot, by boat and, above all, by train. He wrote countless letters to his family as he went, and used the world around him as the subject for hundreds of drawings and paintings. And in his day, that world looked very different from ours. Brimming with colourful pictures, historic photographs, letters, detailed maps and other documents, this book enables readers to join Vincent on his journeys from Z to A: from Zundert in the southern Netherlands (where he was born), through London and Paris, to Auvers-sur-Oise in France (where he died). Offering a detailed introduction to Vincent's personal quest and the contemporary world of his time, this book will immerse young readers in the history of the 19th century and the turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh, the artist and man.

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In this exquisitely illustrated novelty picture book with die-cut flaps, we follow Mouse from woods to estuary to visit an old friend by the seaside. This gorgeous follow-up to the award-winning Mouse's Wood accompanies Mouse on a new adventure - from the woods, down a gently flowing river to the open sea - to visit an old friend. Detailed illustrations feature many plants and animals for children to identify, and the atmospheric rhyming text winds down to a peaceful conclusion perfect for bedtime. Taking place over the course of twenty-four hours, the gently rhyming story tracks the changing environment of the river's banks, the shift from day to night, pleasant weather to rain and back again, and introduces a whole new cast of friendly characters who wave to Mouse on the way, including beavers, water voles, and water fowl aplenty. Mouse travels by a willow coppice, a riverside town with a lock, a river island, a reed bed, the estuary, and the river mouth before finishing up the

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An authoritative and concise history of witchcraft from the ancient world up to the present day. Witchcraft has always been a fluid and intriguing belief system that has enchanted and sometimes terrified humanity. For over forty years, A History of Witchcraft has provided the authoritative history of witchery and the occult. Beginning with magic in the ancient world, Jeffrey Russell explores the definition of witchcraft in its many diverse forms, from the worship of the Greek goddess of magic, Hecate, through the witch-crazes of the 15th and 16th centuries to the development of modern witchcraft by Aleister Crowley and Gerald Gardner in the early 20th century. Brooks Alexander analyses the development of witchcraft and neopaganism in the present day, charting the dissemination of modern witchcraft through modern media and the tensions that arise when a secretive cult becomes an open and recognized religion. This updated edition features a new chapter exploring the challenges that

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Ishu Patel is an acclaimed animation film director/producer and educator whose films have received theatrical and television distribution worldwide. His many international awards include two Oscar nominations, the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the British Academy Award, and the Grand Prix at both Annecy and the Montreal World Film Festival. Photography has been a parallel passion. His experience as Cartier-Bresson's guide' in mid-1960s India shaped much of Patel's own approach toward teaching and seeing through the viewfinder.

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Beatrice Alemagna is an author and illustrator of children's books. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award.

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Beatrice Alemagna is a bestselling author and illustrator of children's books. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award and the Italian Premio Andersen' Award.

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Jans Ondaatje Rolls is the author of Bosham Bisque and Chester Chowder. She is involved in fundraising for numerous charities and is an active supporter of Pallant House Gallery, Winston's Wish and the Charleston Trust. Anne Chisholm is a biographer and critic. Among her many books are biographies of Nancy Cunard, Lord Beaverbrook and Rumer Godden.

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Colin Renfrew is Disney Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and former Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He is the author and editor of many books. Paul Bahn is a prehistorian and archaeological writer, and the author and editor of numerous books, including the standard introduction to cave art, Images of the Ice Age, and the Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology. Elizabeth DeMarrais is Associate Professor in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches archaeological theory and the archaeology of the Americas. She has done fieldwork in Northwest Argentina, Cape Cod, Maui (Hawaii), and the American Southwest, and is widely published.

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