Over 40 years and many travels, the distinguished photographer has taken many pictures of children. A selection of them is gathered here for the first time.
If Mrs T is what she eats, who is Mrs T? A long journey to understand how food is connected to place and national identity, how tradition and innovation create culture. Warm, knowledgeable a... read more
How, whether made on tally sticks or via electronic portal, systems of debt and credit have been a driving force in the development of states from Pisa in the C12th to the Bolshevik Revoluti... read more
Compiled from Dervla's books and journalism: fifty years of travelling in Spain, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, the Andes, Africa, Palestine, the Balkans, Jamaica... She never went by car and w... read more
Cauliflower in almond and saffron masala, paneer and apricot koftas; small plates, large plates, breads, relishes...The first of a a new series from Bloomsbury, catching the wave of vegetari... read more
After comparing the great emperors of antiquity, Lieven turns to the Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Mughal and Chinese emperors. Imperial in ambition and achievement.
By looking at the work and methods of thirteen C20th anthropologists, LM shows how they ended by changing how we see ourselves as much as the 'primitive' societies they were studying.
Contacts and connections as the drivers of cultural change: the West was built on far more than the values of ancient Greece and Rome, as per the Victorian paradigm. Erudite and compelling.