Publius Ovidius Naso (43BC - 17/18AD), known as Ovid, was known as much for his disgrace as for his poetry. By pleasing his contemporaries, befriending patricians and subtly mocking the emperor Augustus, he was transformed from a provincial outsider to Rome's darling - and, for some, its corrupter. Banished without trial to a remote port on the ......
St Petersburg, 1825. Imperial Russia still basks in the glory of victory over Napoleon, but in the army and elsewhere resentment is growing against serfdom and autocracy. Vasily, a pleasure loving, privileged young man, returns home from abroad expecting to embark on a glittering career. Having become entangled in an impossible love affair, he ......
A century, a hundred, a ton, whether in sport, in life or an exam result raises expectations and interest. When it is a celebration of a leading yacht club's longevity, pens descend on paper. From small beginnings after the First World War the Royal Lymington Yacht Club has become one of the UK's leading sports clubs. The Club's patron, HRH ......
A Territorial Gunner's Selected Memories of the Second World War and the Italian Campaign (1943-1945)
A Black Cat Abroad is the untold WWII story of a 'Terrier' nicknamed 'Oscar': R.E.H. Hadingham (1915-2004), CBE, MC & Bar TD, better known as 'Buzzer', who was later chairman of Slazenger's and then the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon. Beginning with his work in London and Territorial Army training, it describes life in Wimbledon under the ......
William Young was the son of gentleman farmer Henry Young who owned Cotchford Farm in the mid-nineteenth century. At the age of just twenty-three William left the farm for what we might now term a gap year’ working in Canada. This book, based on his own diary from 1854/5, tells the fascinating story of his journey via Liverpool and onwards on a ......
Published to coincide with a career-defining retrospective at Hastings Museum and Gallery in January 2022, In Sussex: Bob Mazzer is a far-reaching collection showing Mazzer doing what he does best in the town he came to call home. Hastings, St Leonards-on-Sea and the stunning surrounding countryside are all on show in this carefully curated ......
Anarchy in the Art Gallery is a humorous and thought provoking illustrated book, a re-imagined and irreverent trip through western art and cultural history.
Clemmer was the impetus behind the Smithsonian's 1985-87 traveling exhibition of Newcomb pottery, An Enterprise for Southern Women, as well as the organizer of the Newcomb Centennial 1886-1986 exhibition held at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1987.Distributed for the Historic New Orleans Collection
