The Wheel of the Year: What are the Eight Pagan Festivals?
What are the eight Pagan festivals, and where do they come from? Author Liz Williams guides readers through the Wheel of the Year and its enduring ...
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Around the World in Eight Prophecies
Kings who hid from eclipses, questions burned into ox bones and a Yorkshire cave that has been pulling in visitors since 1630: how people everywher...
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The Odyssey’s Untold Stories: The Myths Homer and Hollywood Leave Out
He faked madness to dodge the Trojan War, cracked what may be western literature’s first pun, and died by a stingray spine. As Odysseus returns to ...
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Who Was Lucian Freud? An Introduction to Britain's Great Portrait Painter
A painting of a sleeping woman has just sold for almost £29 million. Who was the man who made her? Meet Lucian Freud: grandson of Sigmund Freud, an...
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8 Myths and Misconceptions about the Bayeux Tapestry
It isn't a tapestry, it probably wasn't made in Bayeux, and Harold may never have taken an arrow to the eye. As the world's most famous embroidery ...
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Who Were the Romantic Artists?
Driven by a fascination with the sublime, Romantic artists turned to nature, emotion and imagination in search of deeper truths about the human exp...
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20th-Century Street Photographers You Should Know
From the concrete landscapes of New York to the windswept British seaside, fish and chips in hand, these artists are united by a shared desire to t...
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How to Paint a Masterpiece: Lachlan Goudie on Painting Techniques Through History
In The Secrets of Painting, author, artist and broadcaster Lachlan Goudie traces the evolution of painting materials, from the first paints used in...
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1949–2026: Eleven Books that Define Thames & Hudson’s History
The Art of the Book celebrates 75 years of Thames & Hudson. This comprehensive illustrated history explores our rich history and the ethos of o...
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Seasonal Slow Looking: Connecting with Nature Through Art with Olivia Meehan
Olivia Meehan, author of Slow Looking: The Art of Nature, shares her thoughts on the importance of connecting with nature as the seasons change, an...
