Product Description: Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern celebrates the career of one of the truly great figures of modern British design; featuring previously unpublished interviews and specially commissioned photography of his work. The book features essays by renowned commentators on Modern British design including Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, London, and cultural historian and widely published writer on design, Fiona MacCarthy...read more

Offers a biography of the noted nineteenth century author, social activist, and designer, discusses his personal life and connections with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and looks at his designs

Product Description: In the spring of 1902, when the back-to-the-land movement was at its height, an exodus began to Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds. East End London workmen - jewellers, silversmiths, enamellers, cavers, modellers, blacksmiths, cabinet-makers, book-binders and printers - fled from the rushed and crowded life of the big city to a rural idyll of craftsmanship and husbandry which was, at the time, all good socialists' dream...read more

Product Description: 'In 1958 - the year in which Krushchev came to power in Russia, the year after Eden's resignation over Suez, two years after John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" - the last of the debutantes, myself among them, went to the Palace to curtsey to the Queen...read more

The authoritative biography of Lord Byron introduces readers to this controversial literary genius, reconstructing his extraordinary life and journeys and retracing the influence of 'Byronism' on Europe. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: The catalogue for an exhibition at the Hirschorn Museum in Washington in 1997, this text investigates Stanley Spencer's life, sets his work in its cultural context and emphasizes the links between his life and his paintings. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the life and career of the British sculptor, engraver, and typographer, and makes use of his own diaries to depict his complex personality