The Waterman Collection by AshfordSchool

Bequeathed to Ashford School by Reginald Robert Waterman (1933 - 2017)

The Waterman Collection is the result of a legacy left to the Learning Resource Centre by a local resident, Reginald Robert Waterman. Mr Waterman died in 2017. In his will, he expressed the wish that we should receive his extensive personal library. His collection was so large that we were only able to accept a small number of books. The rest were sold, and the proceeds used to purchase books and DVDs to expand the library resources. In choosing new material, we wanted to honour the spirit of this generous bequest. Therefore, the collection reflects Mr Waterman’s passion for art, literature, history and culture. These books and DVDs go far beyond the School curriculum, urging you to engage actively with the world around you and to develop wide-ranging intellectual curiosity. The Waterman Collection enriches Ashford School enormously. We hope you will enjoy exploring it. Dr J Hayes Ashford School Librarian

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Owen Davies The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft & Magic Class number: 133.4303 This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a wide range of magical beliefs and practices, the rise of the witch trials, and the depiction of the Devil-worshipping witch. The book also focuses on the more recent history of witchcraft and magic, from the Enlightenment to the present, exploring the rise of modern magic, the anthropology of magic around the globe, and finally the cinematic portrayal of witches and magicians, from The Wizard of Oz to Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Robert Graves The Greek Myths Class number: 292.13 These are the greatest stories ever told - the labours of Hercules, the voyage of the Argonauts, Theseus and the minotaur, Midas and his golden touch, the Trojan War and Odysseus's journey home - brought together into one epic and unforgettable story. Ideal for the first time reader, it can be read as a single page-turning narrative, while full commentaries as well as a comprehensive index of names make it equally valuable for anyone seeking an authoritative and detailed account of the spectacular stories that make up the bedrock of Western literature. The Greek Myths is a classic among classics, a treasure trove of extraordinary tales and a masterful work of literature in its own right.

Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis Censored: A Literary History of Subversion & Control Class number: 363.3109 The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. Censored explores ideas of censorship and the history of free speech through the stories told by these works of literature.

Robert Harms The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade Class number: 382.44096 The slave trade is one of the best known yet least understood processes in history. The popular image of traders and slave ships going to Africa and rounding up slaves as if they were cattle is not only historically inaccurate, it also disguises the fact that the slave trade was a highly organized Atlantic-wide system that required close collaboration at the highest levels of government in Europe, Africa, and the New World. Using the private journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand, supplemented with archival research, Robert Harms recreates the voyage of the French slave ship The Diligent.

Daniel Finamore Ocean Liners: Speed and Style Class number: 387.2432022 The great age of ocean travel has long since passed, but ocean liners remain one of the most powerful and admired symbols of modernity. No form of transport was as romantic, remarkable, or contested, and ocean liner design became a matter of national prestige as well as an arena in which the larger dynamics of global competition were played out. This beautifully illustrated book considers over a century of liner design: from the striking graphics created to promote liners to the triumphs of engineering, and from luxurious interiors to on board fashion and activities. Ocean Liners explores the design of Victorian and Art Deco 'floating palaces' and sleek post-war liners as well as these ships' impact on avant-garde artists and architects such as Le Corbusier.

Iwan Rhys Morus The Oxford Illustrated History of Science Class number: 509 The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb - and beyond. The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from the ancient Mediterranean world to ancient China; from the exchanges between Islamic and Christian scholars in the Middle Ages to the Chinese invention of gunpowder, paper, and the printing press; from the Scientific Revolution of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe to the intellectual ferment of the eighteenth century. The chapters that follow focus on the increasingly specialised story of science since the end of the eighteenth century, covering experimental science in the laboratory from Michael Faraday to CERN; the exploration of nature, from intrepid Victorian explorers to twentieth century primatologists; the mapping of the universe, from the discovery of Uranus to Big Bang theory; the impact of evolutionary ideas, from Lamarck, Darwin, and Wallace to DNA; and the story of theoretical physics, from James Clark Maxwell to Quantum Theory and beyond. A concluding chapter reflects on how scientists have communicated their work to a wider public, from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the internet in the early twenty-first century.

Stephen Hawking The Universe in a Nutshell Class number: 523.1 We are now nearer than we have ever been to a full understanding of the universe. In a fascinating and accessible discussion that ranges from quantum mechanics to time travel, black holes to uncertainty theory, to the search for science's Holy Grail, the unified field theory (or in layman's terms the 'theory of absolutely everything'), Professor Hawking once more takes us to the cutting edge of modern thinking.

Edward Brooke-Hitching The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps Class number: 526.09 The Phantom Atlas is the first ever history of cartographic misconceptions - an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous cartography, with each illustration accompanied by the story behind it. Exploration, map-making and mythology are all brought together to create a colourful tapestry of monsters, heroes and volcanoes; swindlers, mirages and murderers. The Phantom Atlas is a beautifully produced volume, packed with stunning maps and drawings of places and people that never existed.

Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker Class number: 576.82 Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last hundred years. In 1802 the Rev. William Paleys argued in Natural Theology that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Richard Dawkins, and in this brilliant and controversial book, the acclaimed evolutionary biologist sets out to demonstrate that the theory of evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Charles Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist? To Dawkins, 'The Blind Watchmaker' is nature itself, gradually forming order from the very building-blocks of life: DNA.

Clare Barlow Queer British Art Class number: 700.8664041 In 1861, the death penalty was abolished for sodomy in Britain; just over a century later, in 1967, homosexuality was finally decriminalised. Between these legal landmarks lies a century of seismic shifts in gender and sexuality for men and women. These found expression across the arts as British artists, collectors and consumers explored transgressive identities, experiences and desires. Ranging from the playful to the political, the explicit to the domestic, these works showcase the rich diversity of queer British art. It features works by major artists such as Simeon Solomon, John Singer Sargent, Clare Atwood, Ethel Sands, Duncan Grant, John Minton, Angus McBean, David Hockney and Francis Bacon, alongside less well-known material, such as ephemera, personal photographs, film and magazines. This diversity of material is matched by diversity of experience, with key works highlighting differences of class, gender identity and ethnicity.

Robert Cumming Art Class number: 701.1 This book shows you what others only tell you. Perfect for any art-lover, this is the definitive visual guide to enjoying and appreciating art. From old masters and modern greats to key movements and styles, discover how masterpieces were created and where they can be viewed. It is the ideal museum and gallery companion.

Simon Schama The Power of Art Class number: 701.18 Schama closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, altering the course of art for ever. The embattled heroes - Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko - faced crisis with steadfast defiance. The masterpieces they created challenged convention, shattered complacency, shifted awareness and changed the way we look at the world. With powerfully vivid story-telling, Schama explores the dynamic personalities of the artists and the spirit of the times they lived through, capturing the flamboyant theatre of bourgeois life in Amsterdam, the passion and paranoia of Revolutionary Paris, and the carnage and pathos of civil-war Spain.

Noah Charney The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of Master Forgers Class number: 702.874 This book explores the stories, dramas and human intrigues surrounding the world's most famous forgeries - investigating the motivations of the artists and criminals who have faked great works of art, and in doing so conned the public and the art establishment alike.

Simon Schama The Face of Britain: The Stories Behind the Nation’s Portraits Class number: 704.9420941 In the age of the hasty glance and the selfie, Simon Schama has written a tour de force about the long exchange of looks from which British portraits have been made over the centuries: images of the modest and the mighty; of friends and lovers; heroes and working people. Each of them the image-maker, the subject, and the rest of us who get to look at them - are brought unforgettably to life. Together they build into a collective picture of Britain, our past and our present, a look into the mirror of our identity at a moment when we are wondering just who we are. Combining his two great passions, British history and art history, for the first time, Schama's extraordinary storytelling reveals the truth behind the nation's most famous portrayals of power, love, fame, the self, and the people.

Stephen Farthing Art: The Whole Story Class number: 709 Written by an international team of artists, art historians and curators, this absorbing and beautiful book gives readers unparalleled insights into the world’s most iconic artworks. Art: The Whole Story traces the development of art period by period, with the illustrated text covering every genre, from painting and sculpture to conceptual art and performance art. Cultural timelines are there too, to help the reader with historical context. Masterpieces that epitomise each period or movement are highlighted and analysed in detail. Everything from use of colour and visual metaphors to technical innovations is explained, enabling you to interpret the meanings of world-famous masterpieces: Mughal miniatures, Japanese prints in the nineteenth century, the colour theories behind Seurat’s remarkable 'La Grande Jatte', and why Picasso’s 'Les Demoiselles d’Avignon' was so shocking in its day.

Isabel Seligman Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now Class number: 709

Looking at works from a range of different artists and their various approaches, this book examines the process and practice of drawing, showcasing artworks from fifteenth and sixteenth century masters, such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, right up to artists working today.

Desmond Shawe-Taylor Charles I: King and Collector Class number: 709.024

During his reign, King Charles I (1600-1649) assembled one of Europe's most extraordinary art collections. Indeed, by the time of his death, it contained some 2,000 paintings and sculptures. Charles I: King and Collector explores the origins of the collection, the way it was assembled and what it came to represent. Authoritative essays provide a revealing historical context for the formation of the King's taste. They analyse key areas of the collection, such as the Italian Renaissance, and how the paintings that Charles collected influenced the contemporary artists he commissioned. Following Charles's execution, his collection was sold. This book, which accompanied the 2018 Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, reunites its most important works in sumptuous detail. Featuring paintings by such masters as Van Dyck, Rubens and Raphael, this striking publication offers a unique insight into this fabled collection.

Tarnya Cooper The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt Class number: 709.024 This book brings together fifty exquisite observational portrait drawings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer, Holbein, Bernini, Carracci, Clouet , Rubens and Rembrandt . More than a record of the sitters’ appearance, these works capture a moment of connection between artist and sitter: an encounter.

Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton & Ghislaine Wood Art Deco 1910 - 1939 Class number: 709.04012 Art Deco – the style redolent of the flapper girl, the luxury ocean liner, Hollywood film and the skyscraper – came to epitomise the glamour, luxury and hedonism of the Jazz Age. It burst on to the world stage at the 1925 Exposition internationale des art decoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris, and quickly swept across the globe. Its influence was felt everywhere, from the skylines of New York and Shanghai to the design of fashionable eveningwear and plastic radios. Above all, it became the signature style of the pleasure palaces of the age – hotels, cocktail bars, nightclubs and cinemas. This authoritative publication brings together leading experts to explore the sources, varied forms of expression, distinct visual language and global reach of Art Deco. With its breathtaking illustrations, this lavish volume is the definitive book on what is, arguably, the most popular style of the twentieth century.

Richard Slocombe Art from the First World War Class number: 709.041 Throughout World War I, the British government employed a diverse group of artists to produce a rich visual record of wartime events. But the art from this important collection often far exceeds this objective, giving voice to both the artist and the soldiers who are depicted. Art from the First World War contains more than fifty images chosen from among the Imperial War Museum's impressive collection of works by war artists. The book features some of the most well-known British artists of the twentieth century, from the brothers John and Paul Nash to William Orpen, Stanley Spencer, and John Singer Sargent, whose 'Gassed' shows a line of wounded soldiers blinded by a mustard gas attack.

Martin Myrone William Blake Class number: 709.2 Accompanying the first major survey of William Blake's work to be held since 2000, this book presents a comprehensive overview of his work, foregrounding his relationship with the art world of his time and telling the stories behind some of the most iconic images in the history of British art.

John Richardson Life of Picasso Class number: 709.2 As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso's studio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of the artist and his work.

Alyce Mahon Dorothea Tanning Class number: 709.2 The most accessible and highly illustrated introduction about Tanning published to date, made in close collaboration with the Dorothea Tanning Foundation and including rarely seen archive materials and the artist's personal diaries. This book documents Tanning's entire career and demonstrates her influence among today's contemporary artists.

Elena Crippa All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life Class number: 709.22 This beautifully illustrated book presents a new account of one of the most distinctive, longlasting and fascinating chapters of modern British art: how artists have used painting to record their personal, sensuous, immediate and often intense experiences of life. Spanning a century, this history encompasses a diverse group of painters, including Paula Rego, Euan Uglow, Jenny Saville and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Elizabeth Miller The Arts of Living: Europe 1600-1815 Class number: 709.409032 This book accompanied the opening of the V&A's redesigned Europe gallery, which features spectacular paintings, sculpture, furniture, and decorative arts - textiles, fashion, ceramics, glass, metalwork, prints, and books - created by Europe's finest artists and craftsmen of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for the period's most important tastemakers, among them Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, and Catherine the Great. Outstanding art and domestic objects are discussed within their original contexts to highlight the rhythms and rituals of life during this period. Lavishly illustrated, the book includes essays explaining the grandeur of court interiors, for which the larger and more elaborate art objects were made, as well as discussion of more humble period rooms and intimate interiors.

Jonathan Jones Sensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Banksy Class number: 709.41 What is the artistic impulse uniting Robert Hooke's drawings of insects, George Stubbs's studies of horses and Damien Hirst's pickled shark? In this new and spirited account of British art, Jonathan Jones argues for empiricism. From the Enlightenment to the present, British artists have shared a passion for looking hard at the world around them. Jones shows how this zeal for precision and careful observation paved the way for Realism, Impressionism and the birth of modern art.

Tabitha Barber British Baroque: Power and Illusion Class number: 709.4109032 From the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714, the late Stuart period was a time of change for Britain. This book explores how art and architecture was used by the crown, the church, and the aristocracy to project images of power and status in an age when the power of the monarchy was being questioned. Including the work of the leading painters of the day - including Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller, and James Thornhill - it celebrates ambitious grand-scale portraits, the persuasive illusion of mural painting, the brilliant woodcarving of Grinling Gibbons, and magnificent architecture by Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and John Vanbrugh for St Paul's Cathedral, Hampton Court and Blenheim Palace the great buildings of the age. Here is the opportunity to encounter a rich, sophisticated, but largely forgotten era of art history.

Rufus Bird Charles II: Art & Power Class number: 709.4109032 Sumptuously illustrated, Charles II: Art & Power looks at the art and culture of the court of Charles II, as well as James II, who followed his brother as a liberal patron. It includes an exploration of the theme of power throughout the reigns of these monarchs, and looks at ritual and decorative uses of art and the development of a distinct ‘English Baroque.’ Among the many works of art showcased here are the replacement Crown Jewels made for the coronation of Charles II in 1661, John Michael Wright's monumental portrait of Charles II in his coronation robes, the glittering gilt plate that adorned the altar of Westminster Abbey during the coronation, Charles II's collection of Italian Old Master paintings and drawings, including by Leonardo da Vinci, and many spectacular furnishings from the Palace of Whitehall and St James's Palace.

Jan Marsh Pre-Raphaelite Sisters Class number: 709.4209034 Think of the images created by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and it is not men but pale-faced young women with lustrous, tumbling locks that spring to mind, gazing soulfully from the picture frame or in dramatic scenes painted in glowing colours. Who were these women? Some were models, plucked from obscurity to pose for figures in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, while others were sisters, wives, daughters and friends of the artists. Several were artists themselves, with aspirations to match those of the men, sharing the same artistic and social networks yet condemned by their gender to occupy a separate sphere. Others inhabited and sustained a male-dominated art world as partners in production. Some were skilled in the arts of interior decoration, dressmaking, embroidery and jewellery-making. Although their backgrounds and lifeexperiences certainly varied widely, all were engaged in creating Pre-Raphaelite art.

Glenn M. Andres The Art of Florence Class number: 709.4551 Since the radiant years of the Renaissance, the city of Florence has come for many to represent the greatest triumph of the Western cultural tradition. This is the city where humanism was born, where Plato was discussed passionately in the narrow streets, and where men and women first found themselves to be the measure of all things. For more than three centuries Florence nurtured a creative community of astounding, even revolutionary genius. Matching an elegant and sophisticated text by three leading art historians with hundreds of glorious colour photographs, The Art of Florence immerses us in a city and a time of unparalleled cultural ferment. This is a two-volume set.

Sara Bevan Art from Contemporary Conflict Class number: 709.949355 The Imperial War Museum (IWM) is widely recognized for its incomparable collection of twentieth century British art, which is built around the extensive programs of war art that were created with government support during the First and Second World Wars. In the decades since, images from these artworks have become icons of British history and of the experience of war. What is less well known is that IWM has similarly striking holdings in contemporary art - and that those artworks reflect experiences of and responses to a wide range of recent and ongoing conflicts. Showcasing artwork created in response to fighting in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and more, and featuring work by such prominent contemporary artists as Steve McQueen, Roderick Buchanan, and Langlands & Bell, this book reminds us that war continues to spur artists to creative reflection today.

Susan Owens The Art of Drawing: British Masters and Methods since 1600 Class number: 741.0941 The Art of Drawing is the first book in sixty years to cover the wider history of drawing in Britain, exploring the crucial role drawing has played in British art. Featuring works by foremost British artists from the early seventeenth century right up to the present day, this book offers fresh insights into the wide range of ways in which these artists have used drawing to think on paper, build up ideas and make finished exhibition pieces. Taking examples from the greatest masters, Susan Owens discusses the art and craft of drawing, materials and techniques and why artists chose them.

Patricia Lovett The Art and History of Calligraphy Class number: 745.61 This stunningly illustrated new book focuses on 77 intricate, expressive and individual examples of calligraphy from the unparalleled collection of the British Library. The author, a renowned expert on the history of the form as well as a fine calligrapher herself, writes - uniquely - from a practitioner's point of view. Ranging from the Middle Ages, when beautiful calligraphy was a way of celebrating the divine, to the renaissance of the art form by William Morris, to the modern school of calligraphers following in the wake of master typographer Edward Johnston, Patricia Lovett charts the development of calligraphy through the history of European manuscripts. Large-scale full-colour reproductions enable the reader to see the fine detail of each manuscript, and to understand more clearly than ever before the painstaking craft and great artistic skill that were necessary to create these strikingly beautiful pieces of writing.

William Blake The Complete Illuminated Books Class number: 745.67092 In his illuminated books, William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To have Blake's great prophetic poems - 'Jerusalem' and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, for example - in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them in Blake's own medium, with his sublime and exhilarating colours. This edition, produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains all the pages of Blake's twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, an appendix with all Blake's text set in type and an introduction by the noted Blake scholar, David Bindman.

Rosalind P. Blakesley Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky Class number: 757.094709

Russian portraiture enjoyed a golden age between the late 1860s and the First World War. While Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were publishing masterpieces such as Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov and Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov were taking Russian music to new heights, Russian art was developing a new self-confidence. The penetrating Realism of the 1870s and 1880s was later complemented by the brighter hues of Russian Impressionism and the bold, faceted forms of Symbolist painting.

Catherine MacLeod Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver Class number: 759.2

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there was one art form in which English artists excelled above all their continental European counterparts: the painting of miniatures. This fascinating book explores the genre with special reference to two of its most accomplished practitioners, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, whose astounding skill brought them international fame and admiration. This richly illustrated book explores what the portrait miniature reveals about identity, society and visual culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

Imperial War Museum Art from the Second World War Class number: 759.209044 Throughout World War II, the British government employed a diverse group of artists to produce a rich visual record of wartime events. But the art from this important collection often far exceeds this objective, giving voice to both the artist and the soldiers who are depicted. Art from the Second World War contains more than fifty images chosen from among the Imperial War Museum's impressive collection of works by war artists. In this book, the collected works show lives in extremity. Alongside artworks by the brothers John and Paul Nash are works by Henry Moore and Laura Knight, among many others.

Edgar Degas Degas by Himself Class number: 759.4 This book draws on a range of sources - the artist's own notebooks and letters, as well as anecdotes and memoirs from his intimate circle - to trace a vivid portrait of Degas and reveal intimate aspects of his life and personality. His notebooks and letters show him as a forceful and expressive writer; there are letters to friends and customers, urgent messages to exhibitors at the Impressionist exhibition and, finally, a number of short and sad letters from his last years. Degas was also known as a wit and conversationalist, provoking a number of his friends to write down his words for posterity. For the first time, reminiscences and reported remarks have been brought together, conjuring up an unexpected picture of the artist as a man of wisdom and good humour.

Edouard Manet Manet by Himself Class number: 759.4 Widely recognised as the most influential artist of his generation and the leader of the group that become known as the Impressionists, this elegant Parisian from a conventional background, nonetheless expressed startlingly liberal views in such masterpieces as 'Dejeuner sur L’Herbe' and 'Olympia'. Despite the furore over these paintings, Manet continued to challenge the Salon with his warmly human models, fascinating compositions and inimitable use of colour. He continually insisted that his art had to be seen ‘whole’. In this unique volume, the artist’s previously unpublished letters and verbatim records of conversations are combined with almost 240 beautiful colour reproductions of his work. From an early age, Manet revealed his powers of observation and his commitment to radical, progressive views in his letters, which convey the hopes and fears, the activities and amusements, and the successes and disappointments of this most mercurial and influential of artists.

Timothy Clark Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave Class number: 759.952 Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. This book takes a fresh approach based on innovative scholarship: thematic groupings of works are related to the major spiritual and artistic quests of Hokusai's life. Hokusai's personal beliefs are studied here through major brush paintings, drawings, woodblock prints and illustrated books. The book gives due attention to the contribution of Hokusai's daughter Eijo (Oi), an accomplished artist in her own right. Hokusai continually explored the mutability and minutiae of natural phenomena in his art. His late subjects and styles were based on a mastery of eclectic Japanese, Chinese and European techniques and an encyclopaedic knowledge of nature, myth, and history. Mount Fuji was the most significant model for Hokusai in his quest for immortality. This collection of Hokusai's works draws on the finest to be found in Japan and around the world, making this the most important publication for years on Hokusai, and a uniquely valuable overview of the artist's late career.

Claire Wilcox Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up Class number: 759.972 Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognisable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. On Kahlo's death, her husband, Diego Rivera (1886-1957), ordered that her most private possessions be locked away until 15 years after his death. The bathroom in which her belongings were stored in fact remained unopened until 2004. Through this incredible archive, this book gives readers a unique window into Kahlo's life. It focuses on the personal, combining her prosthetics, jewellery, and clothes with self-portraits, diary entries, and letters to build an intimate portrait of the artist through her possessions, setting this in the context of her political and social beliefs.

Phillip Prodger Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography Class number: 770 Oscar Rejlander (1813-75), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79), Lewis Carroll (1832-98) and Clementina Hawarden (1822-65) embody the very best of photography from the Victorian era. The idea of ‘art photography’ is nearly as old as photography itself, but it wasn’t until the 1850s that photographers began to claim fine-art status for their work. Debates about photography and its role raged internationally, but it was in England, through the work of Oscar Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll and Clementina Hawarden in particular, that the new art found its fullest expression. Influenced by historical painting and working in close association with the Pre‐Raphaelite Brotherhood, they formed a bridge between the art of the past and the art of the future, standing as true giants in Victorian photography.

Peter Stepan Photos that Changed the World Class number: 779.99 Photos that Changed the World gathers together images of pivotal moments in world history in one stunning volume. In lavish two-page spreads, this book presents nearly one hundred of history's most memorable photographs from the Wright Brothers first flight to the bombing of Pearl Harbour, from Martin Luther King’s 'I Have a Dream' speech to Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, and from the inauguration of President Barack Obama to the Syrian refugee crisis. The volume features pictures from photography masters such as Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Yousuf Karsh, Diane Arbus, and James Nachtwey, as well as iconic images from lesser-known and unknown photojournalists.

Edward Mendelson W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman: Libretti and other Dramatic Writings by W.H. Auden 1939 – 1973 Class number: 780.26 Contains the text of Paul Bunyan, The Rake’s Progress, Delia, Elegy for Young Lovers, The Bassarids, an adaptation of Love's Labour’s Lost, the translation of The Magic Flute, and The Entertainment of the Senses. There are also two radio plays – The Dark Valley by Auden alone and The Rocking Horse Winner by Auden and James Stern, based on D.H. Lawrence's story. Other published material includes a masque by Auden for Kallman’s 22nd birthday and Auden’s narrative for the medieval Play of Daniel.

Kate Bailey Opera: Passion, Power and Politics Class number: 782.1 Opera is traditionally regarded as an elitist art form, far removed from reality with its fantastical plots and melodramatic divas. This book shows that beneath all the opulent sets and sumptuous costumes, opera - like all the arts - draws on essential human emotions, creating an experience that can be endlessly reinvented to reflect changes in society. Through the lens of seven opera premieres in seven cities across the past 400 years, the authors look at snapshots in time where politics, art, and social history intersected, providing an immersive account of the society from which these pieces and performances evolved.

Paul Allain and Jen Harvie The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Class number: 791.03

What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? What events, people, practices and ideas have shaped theatre and performance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers some answers to these big questions. It provides an analytical, informative and engaging introduction to important people, companies, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Each entry includes crucial historical and contextual information, extensive cross-referencing, detailed analysis and an annotated bibliography.

Michael Billington The 101 Greatest Plays from Antiquity to the Present Class number: 792 In this provocative and challenging book, Michael Billington offers his highly personal selection of the 101 greatest plays ranging from the Greeks to the present-day. But his book is no mere list. Billington justifies his choices in extended essays – and even occasional dialogues – that put the plays in context, explain their significance and trace their performance history. In the end, it's a book that poses an infinite number of questions. What makes a great play? Does the definition change with time and circumstance? Or are certain common factors visible down the ages? It's safe to say that it's a book that, in revising the accepted canon, is bound to stimulate passionate argument and debate.

Christopher B. Balme The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies Class number: 792 Introducing the complexities of a rapidly changing and dynamic discipline, this book provides thorough coverage of the methods and tools required in the study of both historical and contemporary theatrical performances. Emphasising all the main theatrical genres - drama, opera and dance - the volume provides students with a comparative, integrated perspective.

Nicholas Hytner Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre Class number: 792.0233092 This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre. It is a story of lunatic failures and spectacular successes such as The History Boys, War Horse and One Man, Two Guvnors; of opening the doors of the National Theatre to a broader audience than ever before, and changing the public’s perception of what theatre is for. It is about probing Shakespeare from every angle and reinventing the classics. About fostering new talent and directing some of the most celebrated actors of our times. Its cast includes the likes of Alan Bennett, Maggie Smith, Mike Leigh, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Gambon and Helen Mirren. Intimate, candid and insightful, Balancing Acts is a passionate exploration of the art and alchemy of making theatre.

Kate Dorney and Frances Grey Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays Class number: 792.0941 Opening with J. B. Priestley’s classic play from 1946, An Inspector Calls, and ending with Laura Wade’s examination of class privilege and moral turpitude in Posh over sixty years later, Played in Britain offers a visual history of post-war theatre on the British stage. Arranged chronologically, the featured plays illustrate and respond to a number of themes that animate post-war society: censorship and controversy; race and immigration; gender and sexuality; money and politics. An essay on each period first sets the context and explores trends, while the commentary accompanying each play illuminates the plot and themes, considers its original reception and subsequent afterlife, and finishes by suggesting other plays to explore.

Aleks Sierz and Lia Ghilardi The Time Traveller’s Guide to British Theatre: The First Four Hundred Years Class number: 792.0941 British theatre is booming. But where do these beautiful buildings and exciting plays come from? And when did the story start? To find out we time travel back to the age of the first Queen Elizabeth in the sixteenth century, four hundred years ago when there was not a single theatre in the land. In the company of a series of well-characterised fictional guides, the eight chapters of the book explore how British theatre began, grew up and developed from the 1550s to the 1950s. The Time-Traveller's Guide to British Theatre tells the story of the movers and shakers, the buildings, the playwrights, the plays and the audiences that make British theatre what it is today. It covers all the great names from Shakespeare to Terence Rattigan, by way of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw and the classic plays, many of which are still revived today, visits the venues and tells their dramatic stories.

Daniel Rosenthal The National Theatre Story Class number: 792.09421 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs – and the occasional disaster. This definitive account takes readers from the National Theatre’s nineteenth century origins, through false dawns in the early 1900s, and on to its hard-fought inauguration in 1963. At the Old Vic, Laurence Olivier was for ten years the inspirational Director of the NT Company, before Peter Hall took over and, in 1976, led the move into the National’s concrete home on the South Bank. Altogether, the NT has staged more than 800 productions, premiering some of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ most popular and controversial plays.

Michael Schmidt The Great Modern Poets: An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900 Class number: 808.81 Reproduced within this book are the essential poems of Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and many other major poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For each, Michael Schmidt has provided an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a greater understanding and enjoyment of these extraordinary poems.

Jeremy Noel-Tod The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem Class number: 809.1 The last decades have seen an explosion of the prose poem. More and more writers are turning to this peculiarly rich and flexible form. Yet this fertile mode remains, for many contemporary readers, something of a mystery. The history of the prose poem is a long and fascinating one. Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs it for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing – by turns luminous, brooding, lamentatory and comic – which have defined and developed the form at each stage, from its beginnings in nineteenth century France, through the twentieth century traditions of Britain and America and beyond the English language, to the great wealth of material written internationally since 2000. Comprehensively told, it yields one of the most original and genre-changing anthologies to be published for some years, and offers readers the chance to discover a diverse range of new poets and new kinds of poem, while also meeting famous names in an unfamiliar guise.

John Burnside The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century Class number: 809.104 Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the typewriter, ready to distil the essence of the moment, from the muddy wastes of the Western front to the vast reckoning that came with the end of empire. This is the first and only history of twentieth century poetry, by the acclaimed poet, author and academic John Burnside. Bringing together poets from times and places as diverse as Tsarist Russia, 1960’s America and Ireland at the height of the Troubles, The Music of Time reveals how poets engaged with and shaped the most important issues of their times - and were in their turn affected by their context and dialogue with each other. This is a major work of scholarship, that on every page bears witness to the transformative beauty and power of poetry.

Sylvia Plath Ariel Class number: 811.54 Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber. Ariel is the volume on which Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests.

Sylvia Plath The Journals of Sylvia Plath Class number: 811.54 The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterised by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering her marriage to Ted Hughes and her struggle with depression - are a key source for the poems which make up her collections Ariel and The Colossus.

Janet Malcolm The Silent Woman Class number: 811.54 This work provides a biography of Sylvia Plath, whilst also aiming to examine the means by which biographers justify their ends. As well as covering Plath’s life, it covers topics such as how her reputation was forged by the poems she wrote just before her suicide.

James Smith The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s Class number: 820.900912 This Companion explores an extensive range of 1930s authors, contexts, themes, and literary debates. Informed by current scholarly approaches and analysing the state of the field, it will be an important resource for students and scholars of twentieth century literature.

Christopher Ricks The Oxford Book of English Verse Class number: 821.008 Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry. Here are lyric (beginning with medieval song), satire, hymn, ode, sonnet, elegy, ballad, but also kinds of poetry not previously admitted: the riches of dramatic verse by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster; great works of translation that are themselves true English poetry, and many others; well-loved nursery rhymes, limericks, even clerihews. Some of the greatest long poems are here in their entirety – Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’, Coleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, and Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’ – alongside some of the shortest, haikus, squibs, and epigrams. Generous and wide-ranging, mixing familiar with fresh delights, this is an anthology to move and delight all who find themselves loving English verse.

Anna Beer Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer & Patriot Class number: 821.4 John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the great epic 'Paradise Lost' and of numerous sonnets and other works, from 'Comus' and 'Lycidas' to 'Paradise Regained' and 'Samson Agonistes'. Of all the major English poets, John Milton was by far the most deeply involved in the political and religious controversies of his time, writing a series of pamphlets on free speech, divorce and religious, political and social rights that forced a complete rethinking of the nature and practice not only of government, but of human freedom itself. Not only did he write, but he was also actively engaged with the business of government, working as Cromwell's international secretary for all his dealings with Europe and the wider world. Milton's personal life was just as rich and complex as his professional one.

Roger Lonsdale The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse Class number: 821.508 No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the period’s restraints and inhibitions.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Class number: 821.7 Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the first time in 1798. It is the story of a nightmare voyage to the South Pole told by the sole survivor, the bright-eyed ancient mariner whose wanton killing of an albatross, a bird of good omen, brought misfortune on the ship and all its crew. This edition features beautiful woodcut illustrations.

T.S. Eliot The Waste Land Class number: 821.9 April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain... Published in 1922, 'The Waste Land' was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power.

Ian Hamilton and Jeremy Noel-Tod The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry Class number: 821.90903 An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in English, in Britain and around the world, this companion helps to illuminate the influences, inspirations, and movements that have shaped the lives and works of these important authors. The A-Z biographies are complemented by appendices including coverage of poetry events and movements and lists of anthologies and important poetry prizes and prize-winners. This superb reference work is the ideal companion for students of English Literature, Language, and Creative Writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in modern poetry.

Michael Hulse and Simon Rae The 20th Century in Poetry Class number: 821.9108 This ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic development. Concise biographies for each poet complete the anthology. By organizing the poems in chronological order, readers will see poets in a new light. Here A.E. Houseman, for example, rubs shoulders with T.S. Eliot, showing that traditional forms can hold their own against the modernist orthodoxy. Here are poets rescued from oblivion, such as the suffragette who wrote a compelling poem about her mistreatment in Holloway Prison in 1912 or the medical offer who went into Belsen with the British troops producing an eye-witness poem of lasting power. All the major events of the twentieth century are reflected in the choice of poems within these pages.

W.H. Auden Tell Me the Truth About Love Class number: 821.912 A collection of ten of W.H. Auden's love poems and cabaret songs from the 1930s.

T.S.Eliot Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats Class number: 821.912 In 1925 T.S. Eliot became co-director of Faber & Faber, who remain his publishers to this day. Throughout the 1930s he composed the now famous poems about Macavity, Old Deuteronomy, Mr Mistoffelees and many other cats, under the name of ‘Old Possum’. In 1981 Eliot’s poems were set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber as Cats which went on to become the longestrunning Broadway musical in history.

Philip Larkin High Windows Class number: 821.912 Larkin’s final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces (‘The Old Fools’, ‘This Be the Verse’, ‘The Explosion’, and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet.

Siegfried Sassoon The War Poems Class number: 821.912 No poetry has touched readers’ hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Sassoon's stature is now assured and recognised. This volume contains the poetry on which his reputation rests.

Philip Larkin The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse Class number: 821.91208 Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. It was also considered a quirky and idiosyncratic collection by some critics. Today it is recognized as a fine and wide-ranging selection of modern English verse.

Simon Armitage Kid Class number: 821.914 Simon Armitage’s inspired ear for the demotic and his ability to deal with subjects that many poets turn their backs on have marked him as a poet of originality and force.

Wendy Cope Making Coffee for Kingsley Amis Class number: 821.914 When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets.

Seamus Heaney Death of a Naturalist Class number: 821.914 Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. This is his classic first collection, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C. Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

Ted Hughes Crow Class number: 821.914 A collection of poems focusing on the central figure of the crow, predatory, mocking and indestructible. Crow was Ted Hughes’s fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge a work of impressive and unsettling force.

Sara Munson Deats Doctor Faustus: A Critical Guide Class number: 822.3 Doctor Faustus is Christopher Marlowe’s most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arousing violent critical controversy.

David & Ben Crystal Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary Class number: 822.33 This innovative dictionary is written by leading experts in linguistics and Shakespeare, David and Ben Crystal. It provides students with invaluable support while they read and understand Shakespeare's plays.

Lynne Magnusson with David Schalkwyk The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language Class number: 822.33 The Companion uses accessible approaches and practical examples to help readers engage pleasurably with Shakespeare’s challenging language. It will appeal to those with an interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature and drama, as well as students of English language and the history of language.

Neil MacGregor Shakespeare's Restless World Class number: 822.33 William Shakespeare lived through a pivotal period in human history. With the discovery of the New World, the horizons of Old Europe were expanding dramatically, long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. What ideas and assumptions did Londoners bring with them when they went to see Shakespeare's plays in the 1590s and 1600s? What were they thinking? What was it like living in a world so radically different from anything their parents had experienced? Shakespeare's Restless World uncovers the fascinating stories behind twenty objects from Shakespeare's life and times to recreate his world and the minds of his audiences. The objects range from the rich (such as the hoard of gold coins that make up the Salcombe treasure) to the very humble, like the battered trunk and worn garments of an unknown pedlar. Each of them allows MacGregor to explore one of the defining themes of the Shakespearean age - globalisation, reformation, piracy, Islam, magic and many others.

Adrian Woodhouse Shakespeare by McBean Class number: 822.33 Shakespeare by McBean collects 300 images, many never before published, taken by the renowned photographer Angus McBean. Incorporating images from every one of Shakespeare's plays performed at the RSC, with some from the Old Vic, between the years 1945 - 62, it is a veritable who’s who of the British stage. Richard Burton, Vivien Leigh, Robert Donat, Alec Guinness, Michael Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier, Edith Evans, Paul Scofield, Diana Rigg, Anthony Quayle, Charles Laughton, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Dorothy Tutin are just some of the names that appear. Angus McBean was an exceptional talent, whether he was transforming the photography of rehearsals, inspiring the Beatles, or entertaining his admirers with his light-hearted espousal of surrealism in portraiture. In a career lasting half a century his influence can be seen in everything from advertising to pop culture.

W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood Plays and Other Dramatic Writings by W.H. Auden 1928 1938 Class number: 822.912 This scholarly volume contains all the dramatic works of Auden’s early years. It includes the three Auden-Isherwood plays - The Dog Beneath the Skin, The Ascent of F6 and On the Frontier, and plays written by Auden alone – Paid on Both Sides and The Dance of Death. The text and notes include unpublished poems and scenes written for each of the plays, with the ending Auden wrote for the first production of The Dog Beneath the Skin. Two previously unpublished plays are included, The Enemies of a Bishop and The Chase, as are the surviving fragments of another play, The Fronny.

Joe Orton The Orton Diaries Class number: 822.914 From December 1966 until his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries, which are one of the most candid and unfettered accounts of that remarkable era. The diaries chronicle frankly and hilariously the literary successes (capped with an Evening Standard Award and overtures from the Beatles), the rejection of all conventions, and the sexual adventures of a true literary iconoclast who believed there was no sense in being a rebel without applause.

Martin Middeke, Peter Paul Schnierer & Aleks Sierz The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights Class number: 822.91409 The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international team of scholars, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary drama. Among the many playwrights whose work is examined are Sarah Daniels, Terry Johnson, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Anthony Neilson, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, Debbie Tucker Green, Tanika Gupta and Richard Bean.

Russell Miller The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Biography Class number: 823.912 As the creator of Sherlock Holmes, ‘the world's most famous man who never was’, Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favourite writers; his work is read with affection - and sometimes obsession - the world over. Doctor, writer, spiritualist: his life was no less fascinating than his fiction. Conan Doyle grew up in relative poverty in Edinburgh, with the mental illness of his artistically gifted but alcoholic father casting a shadow over his early life. He struggled both as a young doctor and in his early attempts to sell short stories, having only limited success until Sherlock Holmes became a publishing phenomenon and propelled him to worldwide fame. While he enjoyed the celebrity Holmes brought him, he also felt that the stories damaged his literary reputation. Beyond his writing, Conan Doyle led a full life, participating in the Boer War, falling in love with another woman while his wife was dying of tuberculosis, campaigning against injustice, and converting to Spiritualism, a move that would bewilder his friends and fans. Told with panache, The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle is an unprecedentedly full portrait of an enduringly popular figure.

Christopher Isherwood Christopher and His Kind Class number: 823.912 In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood – determined to become a ‘permanent foreigner’ – packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin’s night scene and his route to sexual liberation. As the Nazis rise to power, Isherwood describes his dramatic struggle to save his partner Heinz from persecution.

Christopher Isherwood My Guru and His Disciple Class number: 823.912 In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. Late-night drinking sessions, free love, and the glamour of writing for the Hollywood studios alternate with meditation, abstinence and the study of religious texts in a compelling tug of war between worldliness and holiness.

Homer, trans. Robert Fagles The Iliad Class number: 883.01 One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles’ close friend Patroclus, Achilles storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death. Interwoven with this tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, of the domestic world inside Troy's besieged city of Ilium, and of the conflicts between the Gods on Olympus as they argue over the fate of mortals.

Homer, trans. Robert Fagles The Odyssey Class number: 883.01 If the Iliad is the world’s greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. Odysseus’ reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once the timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.

Jack Hartnell Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages Class number: 909.07

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe, revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process. Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages.

John Hunt The Ascent of Everest Class number: 915.49604

Expedition leader John Hunt’s account of the first ascent of Mount Everest’s summit in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

Ian Shaw The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt Class number: 932 The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt from the stone age to the Roman conquest. The story of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans makes for fascinating reading, with subjects ranging from the changing nature of life and death in the Nile valley to some of the earliest masterpieces of art, architecture, and literature in the ancient world. An international team of experts in the field address the issues surrounding this distinctive culture, vividly relating the rise and fall of ruling dynasties, exploring colourful personalities, and uncovering surprising facts, such as the revelation that Scotland Yard possesses a print taken from the hand of a mummy. A well-rounded picture of an intriguing civilization emerges.

Zahi Hawass and Sandro Vannini Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Tomb Class number: 932.014092 The tomb of Tutankhamun, with its breathtaking treasures, remains the most sensational archaeological find of all time. This brilliantly illustrated volume takes the reader through Tutankhamun’s tomb room-by-room in the order that it was discovered and excavated by Howard Carter in 1922. Dr Zahi Hawass imbues the text with his own inimitable flavour, imagining how the uncovering and opening of the tomb must have felt for Carter, while Sandro Vannini’s extraordinary photographs reproduce the objects in infinitesimal detail. With stunning full-colour spreads and foldouts throughout the book, this sumptuous volume is the definitive record of Tutankhamun’s glittering legacy.

Franck Goddio and Anita Masson-Berghof Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds Class number: 932.1 Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, at the edge of the Nile Delta, lie the submerged remains of the ancient Egyptian cities Canopus and Thonis-Heracleion, which sank over 1000 years ago but were dramatically rediscovered in the twentieth century and brought to the surface by marine archaeologists in the 1990s. Through these spectacular finds, this book tells the story of how two iconic ancient civilisations interacted in the late first millennium BC. Greeks and Egyptians lived alongside one another in these lively cities, sharing their politics, religious ideas, languages, scripts and customs. Greek kings adopted the regalia of the pharaoh; ordinary Greek citizens worshipped in Hellenic sanctuaries next to Egyptian temples; and their ancient gods and mythologies became ever more closely intertwined. This book showcases a spectacular collection of artefacts, coupled with a retelling of the history by world-renowned experts in the subject (including the sites' long-term excavator), bringing the reader face-to-face with this vibrant ancient society.

Gareth Brereton I am Ashurbanipal, King of the World, King of Assyria Class number: 935.03 In 669 BC Ashurbanipal inherited the world’s largest empire, which stretched from the shores of the eastern Mediterranean to the mountains of western Iran. Ashurbanipal, proud of his scholarship, assembled the greatest library in existence during his reign. Guided by this knowledge, he defined the course of the Assyrian empire and asserted his claim to be ‘king of the world’. This book provides an illuminating account of the Assyrian empire told through the story of its last great ruler, and highlights the importance of preserving Iraq’s rich cultural heritage for future generations.

Julia Farley and Fraser Hunter Celts: Art and Identity Class number: 936.4 The real and imagined legacy of the ancient Celts has shaped modern identities across the British Isles and retains a powerful hold over the popular imagination. The authors of this book explore how the Celts have been defined differently from ancient times to the modern day by people with different perspectives and agendas. They look, too, at what is meant by Celtic art, from its origins c.500 BC in western Europe, through its transformations and revivals in the Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods, to its rediscovery in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Here are iconic, intricately decorated masterpieces as well as less well-known fixtures and fittings; items of warfare and adornment; the ceremonial and the utilitarian.

Maria Paola Guidobaldi Herculaneum: Art of a Buried City Class number: 937.7 A sumptuously illustrated survey of the art and architecture of this prosperous Roman town, remarkably preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Herculaneum, located on the picturesque Bay of Naples, was buried in the same volcanic eruption as its larger neighbour, Pompeii. But while Pompeii was covered by a relatively shallow layer of loose volcanic ash, Herculaneum was submerged in deep flows of hot volcanic mud, which preserved the upper stories of buildings, as well as organic materials like wooden furnishings and foodstuffs. This book describes the city’s catastrophic destruction in AD 79, and the excavations, underway since 1738, that have brought at least a part of its treasures back to light.

Mary Beard Pompeii Class number: 937.7 The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 AD, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing rediscovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.

Alexandra Villing, J. Lesley Fitton, Victoria Donnellan and Andrew Shapland Troy: Myth and Reality Class number: 939.21 For more than three millennia the myth of Troy has enthralled audiences far beyond the place and time in which the Trojan War is set, with its universal themes of love and loss, violence and destruction, despair and hope. First told through the epic accounts in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid, the myth has been retold and reimagined right up to the present day. Great writers, artists and composers have discovered in the stories timeless tales of adventure and archetypes of human character and experience. But how much do we really know about historical Troy beyond the myth? This beautifully illustrated book searches for the reality behind the legend and sheds new light on a fascinating story that has spoken to people around the world and through the ages, and continues to do so today.

Gordon Campbell The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance Class number: 940.21 The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history, traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy. The glories of Florence and the art of Raphael and Michelangelo remain an important element of the Renaissance story, but they are only a part of a much wider story. The book covers the whole gamut of Renaissance civilisation, with chapters on humanism and the classical tradition; war and the state; religion; art and architecture; the performing arts; literature; craft and technology; science and medicine; and travel and cultural exchange.

Peter Marshall, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation Class number: 940.23 The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world. The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of calls for internal reform and renewal in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first Germany and then Europe as a whole in furious arguments about how God's will was to be ‘saved’. However, these debates did not remain confined to a narrow sphere of theology. They came to reshape politics and international relations; social, cultural, and artistic developments; relations between the sexes; and the patterns and performances of everyday life. They were also the stimulus for Christianity's transformation into a truly global religion, as agents of the Roman Catholic Church sought to compensate for losses in Europe with new conversions in Asia and the Americas.

Christopher Lee Nelson and Napoleon: The Long Haul to Trafalgar Class number: 940.2745 Trafalgar was a victory that would change the course of the Napoleonic wars and that would lead to the British Navy ruling the waves for more than a century. Christopher Lee re-evaluates our preconceptions of this final and decisive battle and also looks at the events that led up to it. Through the prism of the preceding years he paints a picture of the personalities and the intrigues that were operating at this time, and particularly of the creation of a national hero in Horatio Nelson and his intense rivalry with Napoleon, who is reputed to have kept a bust of Nelson on his desk. The battle itself was nearly two years in the making with Nelson scouring the Atlantic for the French fleet. In this book the reader will be taken on that journey with Nelson and his men, giving them a front-row view of the biggest story in Britain’s maritime history.

Hew Strachan The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War Class number: 940.3 The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires lay shattered by defeat, those of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans. A fourth, Russia, was in the throes of a revolution that helped define the rest of the twentieth century. The Oxford History of the First World War brings together in one volume many of the most distinguished historians of the conflict, in an account that matches the scale of the events. From its causes to its consequences, from the Western Front to the Eastern, from the strategy of the politicians to the tactics of the generals, they chart the course of the war and assess its profound political and human consequences. Chapters on economic mobilisation, the impact on women, the role of propaganda, and the rise of socialism establish the wider context of the fighting at sea and in the air, and which ranged on land from the trenches of Flanders to the mountains of the Balkans and the deserts of the Middle East.

Peter Barton Battlefields of the First World War: The Unseen Panoramas of the Western Front Class number: 940.4 Here are the great battlefields of the First World War as you have never seen them before, from the first cavalry skirmishes, through the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele, to the final weeks of conflict. A revelatory, unique collection of panoramic photographs covering the whole of the British sectors of the Western Front, end to end. The vast battlescapes are interspersed with poignant individual photographs and the recollections of the soldiers caught in the action. The last time most of the panoramas were viewed - in the trenches - they were marked TOPSECRET and destined for the eyes of the commanding officer only. Taken at huge personal risk by specialist photographers during the war, the panoramas reveal what no other photographs can - the view beyond the trench parapet - and a great deal more. Each panorama offers a view of up to 160 degrees, so sharply focused that the individual figures of a waiting sniper or a soldier picking lice from his shirt can be made out. They document a lost world. This slipcased edition features 60 recently discovered German panoramas, plus a DVD containing the full complement of 350 panoramas in interactive, zoomable form; as well as updated mapping throughout.

Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Class number: 940.53088 One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most celebrated and enduring books of the last century and it remains a deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of human spirit. Anne Frank and her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two years with another family and a German dentist. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary. She movingly revealed how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with hunger, the daily threat of discovery and death and being cut off from the outside world, as well as petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners. Anne Frank was born on 12 June 1929. She died in Bergen-Belsen, three months short of her sixteenth birthday.

David P. Christopher British Culture: An Introduction Class number: 941.082 This third edition of British Culture is the complete introduction to culture and the arts in Britain today. Extensively illustrated and offering a wider range of topics than ever before, David P. Christopher identifies and analyses key areas in language, literature, film, TV, social media, popular music, sport and other fields, setting each one in a clear, historical context. British Culture enables students of British society to understand and enjoy a fascinating range of contemporary arts through an examination of current trends, such as the influence of business and commerce, the effects of globalisation and the spread of digital communications.

Nigel Saul The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England Class number: 942.03 This richly illustrated book provides a comprehensive introduction to medieval England. Written by expert scholars and drawing on the latest research, it offers an authoritative survey of the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth. The middle ages were a time of profound diversity and change. The main political themes are explored in three narrative chapters, covering the Anglo-Saxon period, the Normans and Angevins, and the late middle ages. Chapters on the social, cultural, and religious life of the period add context to the political and institutional developments traced and cover topics as varied as the nature of national identity, urban life, art and architecture, religious practice, and the development of vernacular literature. 180 illustrations, maps, family trees, a chronology, guide to further reading, and a full index make this an indispensable guide to England in the middle ages.

Desmond Seward Richard III Class number: 942.04 Understandably, the usurping Tudor dynasty blackened the last Plantagenet’s reputation, and some historians claim that Richard’s villainous legend is nothing more than political propaganda. Yet such an interpretation, as Desmond Seward shows in this powerfully argued book, suggests a refusal to face facts. Even in the king’s lifetime there were rumours about his involvement in the murders of Henry VI and of his nephews, the ‘Princes in the Tower’, while his reign was ‘a nightmare, not least for the king himself’. The real Richard was both chilling and compelling, ‘a peculiarly grim young English precursor of Machiavelli’s Prince’. Sweeping aside sentimental fantasy, this is a biography that offers a definitive picture of both the age and the man.

Anna Whitelock Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen Class number: 942.054092 In the summer of 1553, against all odds, Mary Tudor was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England. This book tells the remarkable story of a woman who was a princess one moment, and a disinherited bastard the next. It tells of her Spanish heritage and the unbreakable bond between Mary and her mother, Katherine of Aragon; of her childhood, adolescence, rivalry with her sister Elizabeth and finally her womanhood. Throughout her life Mary was a fighter, battling to preserve her integrity and her right to hear the Catholic mass. Finally, she fought for the throne. The Mary that emerges from this groundbreaking biography is not the weak-willed failure of traditional narratives, but a complex figure of immense courage, determination and humanity.

Rainer Metzger Berlin in the 20s Class number: 943.155085 Berlin in the 1920s was home to some of the most extraordinary minds of modern times, and was a vigorous melting pot of radical new ideas and concepts in every field. Comprising essays on the key movements and figures of the era, this profusely illustrated book is a highly readable portrait of this astonishing cultural ferment and its most important protagonists.

Iain Fenlon The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice Class number: 945.3107 This wide-ranging study vividly presents the major events that took place in Venice in the 1570s, culminating in a deadly outbreak of the plague that claimed one-quarter of the Venetian population. Analysing reactions to this dramatic decade, Iain Fenlon throws fresh light on the historical machine that produced the distinct civic and cultural ethos of the city and uncovers new aspects of its urban topography, ceremony, and cultural life. At the heart of the book is a detailed account of four historical events: the formation of the Holy League, a coalition that brought the Republic into conflict with the Ottoman Empire; the victory of that League against the Turkish fleet at the battle of Lepanto; the ceremonial welcoming of Henry III of France to the city in 1574; and the devastating plague of 1575-77. The author considers how these events, above all the victory at Lepanto, were reconfigured in the realms of memory and myth, and he describes in detail a religious matrix that provides the key to the civic ethos of the city in this era.

Mary Hollingsworth The Medici Class number: 945.505 Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes and a powerful and influential queen of France. Their patronage brought about an explosion of Florentine art and architecture. Michelangelo, Donatello, Fra Angelico and Leonardo are among the artists with whom they were associated. Thus runs the ‘received view’ of the Medici. Mary Hollingsworth argues that the idea that they were wise rulers and enlightened fathers of the Renaissance is a fiction that has acquired the status of historical fact. In truth, the Medici were as devious and immoral as the Borgias, tyrants loathed in the city they illegally made their own and which they beggared in their lust for power.

Mary Hollingsworth The Borgias: History’s Most Notorious Dynasty Class number: 945.6060922 The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many works of fiction, most famously Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, they have aroused abomination and fascination in almost equal measure, while their patronage of the arts created some of the great masterpieces of the Renaissance. From the powerful, merciless Rodrigo Borgia, better known as Pope Alexander VI, to the beautiful Lucrezia and the debauched and murderous Cesare, Mary Hollingsworth's account of the dynasty's dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to the heights of Renaissance society forms a compelling tale of brutality, incest, unparalleled corruption and extortionate greed.

Francis Spufford The Antarctic: An Anthology Class number: 998 The Antarctic features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the South Pole. Contributors include British, American, Australian, Scandinavian, Japanese and Russian explorers such as Ernest Shackleton, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, Richard Byrd and Douglas Mawson; novelists such as H.P. Lovecraft, Diane Ackerman, Jenny Diski and Kim Stanley Robinson and popular travel writers such as Sara Wheeler.

Elizabeth Kolbert The Arctic: An Anthology Class number: 998 The Arctic features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the North Pole.The contributors include British, American, Scandinavian and Russian explorers such as John Franklin, Fridtjof Nansen, Salomon August Andrée, Knud Rasmussen and Robert Peary; novelists such as Jules Verne, Jack London and Barry Lopez; and environmental explorers such as Gretel Ehrlich.

Kathleen Riley The Astaires: Fred & Adele Class number: 920 AST Before 'Fred and Ginger', there was 'Fred and Adele', a show business partnership and a cultural sensation like no other. It is difficult in our celebrity-sated era to comprehend what a genuine phenomenon the Astaires were. At the height of their success in the mid-1920s the siblings were seasoned transatlantic commuters, ambassadors of an art form they had helped to revolutionise, adored by audiences, feted by royalty, and courted socially by the elite in just about every field of endeavour. They seemed to define the Jazz Age, a fascinating pair who wove spellbinding rhythms in song and dance. The story of Fred and Adele Astaire is extraordinary and it is told here in depth and within its historical and theatrical context.

Jonathan Croall John Gieldgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star Class number: 920 GIE This entertaining but critical biography charts the ups and downs of Gielgud's long and glittering career, from his young ground-breaking Hamlet to his later success in plays by Pinter, Storey, Bond and Bennett, and his recognition as a major movie star following his role in Arthur. It also reassesses his complex relationship with his great rival Laurence Olivier and throws fresh light on his personal relationships and the turbulent episodes of his private life that threatened to shatter his career. What emerges is an intimate, complex and often startling portrait of this great actor and much-loved man. Gielgud's interpretations of Shakespeare's great roles made Shakespeare's plays a commercial success on London's West End for the first time. He was also hugely influential as a director and an actor-manager and worked extensively in film and television later in life.

James Strong The New Strong’s Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible Class number: 220.52033 REF An alphabetical index to the Bible, with Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic dictionaries.

Oxford University Press Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Class number: 423 REF Based on the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the Oxford English Dictionary, is just one-tenth of the size, and includes all words in current English from 1700 to the present day, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, the Bible and other major works in English from before 1700. For everyone with a serious interest in the English language, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is an unrivalled resource, providing a unique description of the historical development of the language together with excellent coverage of current English. This is a two-volume set.

Michael Dobson The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare Class number: 822.33 REF This Companion covers thoroughly Shakespeare's works, times, life, and legacy. Now revised and updated to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the second edition reflects developments and discoveries made in recent years, and the performance, interpretation, and influence of Shakespeare's works up to the present day.

Joan Bakewell Chambers Biographical Dictionary Class number: 920.02 REF First published in 1897, Chambers Biographical Dictionary is a unique reference work which packs a huge amount of information between its covers. The ninth edition has been thoroughly updated and remains wide-ranging and international in scope, offering concise, authoritative and illuminating entries on individuals from Alexander the Great to Frank Zappa, and from Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden.

Civilisation

Kenneth Clarke's eloquent and deeply personal documentary series exploring the cultural heritage of the western world, from the collapse of the Roman Empire until the birth of modernism, was groundbreaking television when first broadcast by the BBC in 1969. With its use of exotic locations, and its engaging presenter with his idiosyncratic style, it influenced much of what was to follow. Progressing from the cultural effects of feudalism in medieval Europe to the birth of the Renaissance in fifteenth-century Florence, from revolutionary politics in France after 1789 to the growth of materialism in artistic and scientific discourse, Clarke did not just examine ‘art’, but wanted to reveal the spiritual and humanistic motives behind its creation. Includes all thirteen episodes. (Running time 10hr 50min. Cert E. 4 discs.)

Civilisations

Simon Schama, Mary Beard and David Olusoga present this nine-part BBC series which looks at the history of art across the world. The episodes are: ‘The Second Moment of Creation’, ‘How Do We Look?’, ‘The Eye of Faith’, ‘Picturing Paradise’, ‘The Triumph of Art’, ‘First Contact’, ‘Radiance’, ‘The Cult of Progress’ and ‘The Vital Spark’. (Running time 9hr 02min. Cert 15. 3 discs.)

The Crusades

Thomas Asbridge presents this three-part documentary series that looks at the reasons behind history's bloodiest battle. (Running time 3hrs. Cert E. 2 discs.)

Simon Schama: The Face of Britain

Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art and examining the ways portraiture is used to make a statement. (Running time 5hrs. Cert E. 2 discs.)

Simon Schama's Power of Art

Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight masterpieces. (Running time 6hrs 40 m. Cert 12. 3 discs)

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AUTHOR

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133.4303

Davies, Owen

The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic

292.13

Graves, Robert

The Greek Myths

363.3109

Fellion, Matthew

Censored: A Literary History of Subversion & Control

382.44096

Harms, Robert

The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

387.2432022

Finamore, Daniel

Ocean Liners: Speed and Style

509

Morus, Iwan Rhys

The Oxford Illustrated History of Science

523.1

Hawking, Stephen

The Universe in a Nutshell

526.09

Brooke-Hitching, Edward

The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

576.82

Dawkins, Richard

The Blind Watchmaker

700.8664041

Barlow, Clare

Queer British Art

701.1

Cumming, Robert

Art

701.18

Schama, Simon

The Power of Art

702.874

Charney, Noah

The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of Master Forgers

704.9420941

Schama, Simon

The Face of Britain: The Stories Behind the Nation's Portraits

709

Farthing, Stephen

Art: The Whole Story

709

Seligman, Isabel

Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now

709.024

Shawe-Taylor, Desmond

Charles I: King and Collector

Cooper, Tarnya

The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt

709.04012

Benton, Charlotte

Art Deco 1910 - 1939

709.041

Slocombe, Richard

Art from the First World War

709.2

Myrone, Martin

William Blake

709.2

John, Richardson

Life of Picasso

709.2

Mahon, Alyce

Dorothea Tanning

709.22

Crippa, Elena

All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life

709.409032

Miller, Elizabeth

The Arts of Living: Europe 1600-1815

709.41

Jones, Jonathan

Sensations: A New History of British Art

709.4109032

Barber, Tabitha

British Baroque: Power & Illusion

709.4109032

Bird, Rufus

Charles II: Art & Power

709.4209034

Marsh, Jan

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters

709.4551

Andres, Glenn M.

The Art of Florence

709.949355

Bevan, Sara

Art from Contemporary Conflict

741.0941

Owens, Susan

The Art of Drawing: British Masters and Methods Since 1600

745.61

Lovett, Patricia

The Art and History of Calligraphy

745.67092

Blake, William

The Complete Illuminated Books

757.094709

Blakesley, Rosalind P.

Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky

759.2

MacLeod, Catharine

Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver

759.209044

Imperial War Museum

Art from the Second World War

759.4

Degas, Edgar

Degas by Himself

759.4

Manet, Edouard

Manet by Himself

759.952

Clark, Tim

Hokusai

759.972

Wilcox, Claire

Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up

770

Prodger, Phillip

Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography

779.99

780.26

Stepan, Peter

Photos That Changed the World

Auden, W.H. & Kallman, C.

Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings by W.H. Auden, 1939-1973

782.1

Bailey, Kate

Opera: Passion, Power and Politics

791.03

Allain, Paul

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

792

Billington, Michael

The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present

792

Balme, Christopher B.

The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies

792.0233092

Hytner, Nicholas

Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre

792.0941

Dorney, Kate

Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays

792.0941

Sierz, Aleks

The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre: The First Four Hundred Years

792.09421

Rosenthal, Daniel

The National Theatre Story

808.81

Schmidt, Michael

The Great Modern Poets: An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry Since 1900

809.1

Noel-Tod, Jeremy

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson

809.104

Burnside, John

The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century

811.54

Plath, Sylvia

Ariel

811.54

Plath, Sylvia

The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962

811.54

Malcolm, Janet

The Silent Woman

820.900912

Smith, James

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s

821.008

Ricks, Christopher

The Oxford Book of English Verse

821.4

Beer, Anna

Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot

821.508

Lonsdale, Roger

The New Oxford Book of EighteenthCentury Verse

821.7

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

821.9

Eliot, T.S.

The Waste Land

821.90903

Noel-Tod, Jeremy

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry

821.9108

Rae, Simon

The 20th Century in Poetry

821.912

Auden, W.H.

Tell Me the Truth About Love

821.912

Eliot, T.S.

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

821.912

Larkin, Philip

High Windows

821.912

Sassoon, Siegfried

The War Poems

821.91208

Larkin, Philip

The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse

821.914

Armitage, Simon

Kid

821.914

Cope, Wendy

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

821.914

Heaney, Seamus

Death of a Naturalist

821.914

Hughes, Ted

Crow

822.3

Deats, Sara Munson

Doctor Faustus: A Critical Guide

822.33

Crystal, David & Ben

Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary

822.33

MacGregor, Neil

Shakespeare's Restless World: An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects

822.33

Magnusson, Lynne

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language

822.33

822.912

Woodhouse, Adrian Auden, W.H. & Isherwood, C.

Shakespeare by McBean

Plays and Other Dramatic Writings by W.H. Auden 1928 - 1938

822.914

Orton, Joe

The Orton Diaries

822.91409

Middeke, M. et al.

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights

823.912

Miller, Russell

The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Biography

823.912

Isherwood, Christopher Isherwood, Christopher

Christopher and His Kind

My Guru and His Disciple

883.01

Knox, Bernard M. W.

The Iliad

883.01

Knox, Bernard M. W.

The Odyssey

909.07

Hartnell, Jack

Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages

915.49604

Hunt, John

The Ascent of Everest

920 AST

Riley, Kathleen

The Astaires: Fred & Adele

920 GIE

Croall, Jonathan

John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star

932

Shaw, Ian

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

932.014092

Hawass, Zahi A.

Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb

932.1

Goddio, Franck

Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds

935.03

Brereton, Gareth

I am Ashurbanipal: King of the World, King of Assyria

936.4

Farley, Julia

Celts, Art and Identity

937.7

Beard, Mary

Pompeii

937.7

Guidobaldi, Maria Paola

Herculaneum: Art of a Buried City

939.21

Fitton, Lesley

Troy: Myth and Reality

940.21

Campbell, Gordon

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance

940.23

Marshall, Peter

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation

940.2745

Lee, Christopher

Nelson and Napoleon: The Long Haul to Trafalgar

940.3

Strachan, Sir Hew

The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War

940.4

Barton, Peter

The Battlefields of the First World War: The Unseen Panoramas of the Western Front

940.53088

Frank, Anne

The Diary of a Young Girl

941.082

Christopher, David P.

British Culture: An Introduction

942.03

Saul, Nigel

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England

942.04

Seward, Desmond

Richard III

942.054092

Whitelock, Anna

Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen

943.155085

Metzger, Rainer

Berlin in the 20s

945.3107

Fenlon, Iain Alexander

Ceremonial City, The: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice

945.505

Hollingsworth, Mary

The Medici

945.6060922

Hollingsworth, Mary

The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty

998

Spufford, Francis

The Antarctic: An Anthology

998

Kolbert, Elizabeth

The Arctic: An Anthology

220.52033 REF

Strong, James

The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible

423 REF

Oxford University Press

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

822.33 REF

Dobson, Michael

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

920.02 REF

Bakewell, Joan

Chambers Biographical Dictionary

DVD

Civilisation

DVD

Civilisations

DVD

The Crusades

DVD

Simon Schama: The Face of Britain

DVD

Simon Schama's Power of Art

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