History & History of Art

The book tells the story of the impact of George Frederic Watts OM RA (1817-1904) and his wife Mary Seton Watts (nee Fraser-Tytler, 1849-1938) on Compton, a small village in Surrey.

Colour illustrations and updated text tell the story of Greenwich from its foundations in 1676 to its present status as Longitude 0°, the world's Prime Meridian for measuring longitude and time.

Daniels stands alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantial advance in portable mechanical timekeeping over the lever escapement, which has dom

Wilde is presented as a multi-faceted artist whose major achievement was the language with which he contributed to the development of artistic and cultural movements of his age.

Very little is commonly known about this period of Croatian history, even amongst Europeans, and so this volume about one of Europe's oldest cultures is a timely one.

This book is an ambitious Anglo-French collaboration in which, for the first time, photographs and essays from both sides of the Channel are integrated to assess and make vivid the phenomenon of the s

The family took over the business in 1792, successfully developing it to become the crown jewellers from the middle of the nineteenth century.

Abraham Lincoln has long been remembered as a product of Illinois by way of Kentucky and Indiana – by tradition, one of American history’s quintessential westerners.