Politics personified

Politics personifiedThe first study of the role of commercial imagery in nineteenth century politics, Politics personified shows how visual images projected a favourable public image of politics and politicians. Drawing on a vast and diverse range of sources, this book highlights how and why politics was visualised.

art history

The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (1593–1633) and Edward Herbert (1583–1648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters

cultural achievements and the Swiss place in the wider European Reformation world

social sciences and the arts

This book compares two conceptual models for theorizing about photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine

not only for elites

Madrid on the move offers an account of illustrated print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion

such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston

this study offers the first book-length archaeology of a 17th through 20th century household site in Great Britain

contesting

is the first major monograph about the performance work of artist Anne Bean