First piece of press for my Turner Exhibition, coming up Turner's House in July. theartnewspaper.com/2024/05/16/smo…

Yr. Derek Jarman corresp. strikes again - this time in the soaraway The Art Newspaper on a slightly untidy but richly human book about Prospect Cottage. Atmospherically lit because that’s how I like to spend my evenings.

Spotted adverts for Turner at the Laing Art Gallery popping up all over the North East. Exciting week as we install and open the exhibition!

SSEMWG The content is fabulous, and it is a beautiful book too. Or as Jacqueline Riding put it in her The Art Newspaper review, 'an ambitious and handsome publication.' The book won the Alcuin Society Book Design Awards Second Prize (Prose Illustrated).

Short story writers! History writers!
The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition is open for entries.
Send us your stories of up to 3,500 words set 35+ years in the past.
More details: historicalwriters.org/awards/ddshwas…
Here's a photo from last year's awards
#HWADDSS24
Dorothy Dunnett Soc.

There hasn't been much work done on collating evidence of British Army desertion during #The45 , so I put together this short essay for History Scotland last year, and it formed the basis for my Christopher Duffy Memorial Lecture at NTS Culloden in 2023.

Publication day! My new book reveals why, in the 20th century, so many girls and boys, women and men, were locked away for life in institutions when they had committed no crime and were in no need of care rb.gy/70ircc

Introducing… my fourth baby.
It’s my attempt to get to the heart of how around 50,000 UK youngsters were locked away in mental institutions on purely social and ‘moral’ grounds in the early & mid 20th century.
Out on 4 April Oneworld Publications

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BREAKING NEWS // SAVE and Architects’ Journal launch ideas competition for M&S Oxford Street site 💡⚡️♻️
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#restore #SAVEMandSOxfordSt #SAVEcampaigns #design #competition #heritage #creativity

We offer private tours for up to 10 hosted by one of our creative team. Learn the inside story of the house, discover more of the wonder of Dennis Severs’ creation, and hear about how we keep his vision alive today.
Please inquire for bookings: [email protected]

This Tues, 26 March we’re excited to welcome Dr Anita Gillespie to the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop Series, where she’ll be telling us about her recently published book, ‘A Portrait of Scotland’s Unknown Jacobite Ladies, 1688-1760’.

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Garrick Club Barbie

From issue 1531

I'll be talking about Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives at the Century Club tomorrow (Tuesday 19). It's a private members' club but all are welcome to the event. centuryclub.co.uk/decadent-women……
@ReaktionBooks
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Review | New Keith Haring biography is an exhaustive, often breathless, account of a life propelled by unremitting determination, says Ian Massey HarperCollins
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Review | “This book reads against the grain of established histories of the RA, and therein lies its value.”

Beth Williamson on the catalogue for the Royal Academy’s ‘Entangled Pasts’ exhibition

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Culture Explorer Lund Humphries highlights a new book about this artist for #WomensHistoryMonth : SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA by Cecilia Gamberini! It will be published on 15th April 2024 – now available at 20% off for pre-order throughout March with code WHM24. Learn more & order at lundhumphries.com/collections/wo…

'A rich and complex portrait of a society in transition' – Jacqueline Riding

From History Hit💥's Dr Maddy Pelling comes a fascinating story of 18th century Britain, explored through its graffiti.

#WritingOnTheWall is out 28th March ✨

Find out more: tinyurl.com/WritingOnTheWa…

Under the radar, Tory MPs & landowning lobbyists are trying to undermine nature protections in England.

Yesterday, Tory MP Derek Thomas tabled a Bill in Parliament to strip Natural England of its power to create nature reserves (SSSIs) & instead give that power to Ministers. 1/

Ratcliffe Terr,(Causewayside),Edin. Sorry to see this interesting building is now up for demolition (for student housing) Was built in 1906 as Lads’ Institute- for ‘wholesome recreation and amusement’ to keep boys off the street and ‘improve their religious and moral principles’

Historical fiction and non-fiction authors!
Grab your publishers as soon as they've recovered from the London Book Fair because...
📚👑Entries for the 2024 HWA Crown Awards are now open!
Details and entry form at historicalwriters.org/awards/hwa-cro….
#histfic #history #HWACrowns24