A five-year story of love between ordinary people who survived World War II on just 49 days spent together. How did they do it? This true story based on real lives explores the conundrum.
Beautifully illustrated book of Love Letters between Lee Miller and Roland Penrose begins when they first met at a fancy dress party, Paris 1937. Through the letters it tracks their love affair, adventures, creative work, the surrealist art movement, scandal and laughs to the background of a world that is building up to the beginning of WW II.
Love of an Unknown Soldier is the publication of a series of intimate documents that were found in a dug-out of an abandoned gun position, resulting in an extremely moving love story.
Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA is mostly thought about in terms of his people and their industrial setting but there is a great deal more to be read from the detail of his paintings. Throughout his artistic career, Lowry used street furniture to brilliant effect. He was a master of observation and composition. Lamp-posts, telegraph poles, flag ......
Lulu in New York and other tales, an exquisite and beautifully crafted volume of sixty stories from Power, inspired by Ferguson's paintings that span his entire career. Ties in with upcoming exhibitions and new fiction book launch
MacDonald 'Max' Gill (1884-1947) was an architect, letterer, mural painter and graphic artist of the first half of the twentieth century, best known for his pioneering pictorial poster maps including the whimsical Wonderground Map of London Town. His beautiful painted panel maps decorate the Palace of Westminster and Lindisfarne Castle and the ......
Based on the author's own experience with the British Army and specifically the Royal Armoured Corps, Mailed Fist brings this extraordinary story of tank warfare to life.
ISBN-13: 9781912423491
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
A delightful reminder of the techniques for household economies extolled by the wartime government. First published in 1943, all of the tips can be used to spruce up your wardrobe today. Old fashioned remedies for everything from washing silks and mending your clothes, to repelling the 'moth menace'!
ISBN-13: 9781912423699
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Life and Work from his Memoirs, Letters, Diaries and Interviews
Potter, writer, teacher, editor, curator and gay rights activist, Emmanuel Cooper was a unique figure in the cultural landscape of this country. When he died in 2012 he left behind an extraordinary body of work. This is both a personal and a social history that celebrates the life and times of an important artist and remarkable man.
