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UNICORN PUBLISHING GROUP
SPRING 2020
Welcome to Unicorn Publishing Group’s Spring 2020 catalogue
Contents We are particularly proud that The Spectator, the oldest and certainly one of the most
influential magazines in the world, has chosen Unicorn to celebrate their 10,000th
UK Office Forthcoming Titles
2 Unicorn anniversary issue with the title 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator 1828-2020.
5 Newburgh Street
35 Universe In a similar prestigious vein, the Royal Academy of Music have chosen us to publish
London W1F 7RG
36 Uniform Musical Architects: Creating Tomorrow’s Royal Academy of Music, which celebrates the
UK Design Office reimagined extension to the building as well as preparing for their bicentenary. This
Charleston Studio, Client Publisher Titles catalogue’s front cover image is of the new Recital Hall.
38 Royal Museums Greenwich
Meadow Business Centre
48 Imperial War Museum We are equally pleased to be publishing Kenneth Baker’s next book On Assassinations
Lewes BN8 5RW
51 Royal Armouries as well as Dan Cruikshank’s Built in Chelsea: Three Centuries of Living Architecture
Tel: +44 (0)1273 812 066
55 Lee Miller Archives and Townscape. Outdoors in London we are presenting the photography book Wild
58 Dare Gale Press
Rights Neighbours, and back indoors another photography book, Faith in the City of London.
59 Unicorn Press
Print Company Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. Alongside these we are publishing three lighter books: Hand Dryers and Seaside 100:
60 The Historic New Orleans Collection
Gumpendorfer Str. 41/6 A History of the British Seaside in 100 Objects, and Latin Rocks On, featuring popular
63 Westtoer
A-1060 Wien music lyrics in Latin.
Tel: +43-1-544 23 33 64 Recent Highlights
Email: office@printcompany.co.at Our Chinese connections continue with an important retrospective of the artist
Backlist Hsiao Chin, Hsiao Chin and Punto: Mapping Post-War Avant-Garde and Centuried
Chairman 69 Unicorn Keemun: Tea Stories of Cultural Chizhou. Also in Asia, we have Michael Naseby’s
Lord Strathcarron 74 Uniform Sri Lanka: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, the peer’s memoirs of his many visits
ian@unicornpublishing.org 77 Firestep
to the island.
77 Universe
Project Director, Unicorn
78 War Office Publications Unicorn Sales & Distribution (US&D) is our publishers’ marketing company, selling
Lucy Duckworth
lucy@unicornpublishing.org 79 Imperial War Museum books not just for the Unicorn imprints, but also our client publishers Imperial War
80 Royal Armouries Museum, Royal Armouries, Lee Miller Archives and most recently Royal Museums
Publishing Director, Uniform 81 Royal Museums Greenwich
Ryan Gearing Greenwich. Like Unicorn, they all have exciting new books to launch next Spring.
82 The Historic New Orleans Collection
ryan@unicornpublishing.org 83 Lee Miller Archives As ever, we hope you enjoy buying and reading the books as much as we have enjoyed
Sales and Marketing Director 83 Unicorn Press publishing and marketing them.
Simon Perks 84 London Collectors Club
simon@unicornpublishing.org 84 Dare Gale
84 London Transport Museum
Publicity Lord Strathcarron,
84 Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917
Louise Campbell Chairman
84 Orde Levinson
louise@unicornpublishing.org
84 The Wilderness Conspiracy
85 International Sales
and Distribution Contacts
Front cover image: The Angela Burgess Recital Hall by Adam Scott, from Musical Architects
Back cover image: Wonderground Map of London Town by MacDonald Gill, from MacDonald Gill Charting the Life
Catalogue design by Felicity Price-Smith and Vivian Head
I: He scrupulously reworked the paper’s contents, character substantial bequest for educational purposes. The editor
R I N TOU L & T H E R A DICA L S and appearance; as colleagues recalled, ‘he attempted to told the facts as they were — and won the case.
(1828-58) elevate the compilation of a newspaper into an art.’ Before It was perhaps R intoul’s increasingly prick ly
—
No Scottish printing apprentice has the time or the
long, he had doubled the Advertiser’s readership from
the 600 he inherited; what is more, he had attracted the
notice of an increasingly influential set of Scottish radical
activity that led, in early 1825, to his falling out with
the newspaper’s chief proprietor, James Saunders. In
search of new opportunities, he headed once more to
temerity to daydream that he will, in later life, see a intellectuals. Under Rintoul’s editorship The Advertiser Edinburgh and established a new weekly venture. The
mountain named in his honour on the other side of became a Radical organ whose voice travelled far — and Edinburgh Times first appeared on 22 January 1825,
the planet. And yet, for one lad toiling with the finicky weighed heavy wherever it landed. a paper ‘conducted on liberal principles’ and printed
business of setting, inking and pressing type up a Scotland at the time stood as an almighty bulwark on ‘the largest size permitted by Act of Parliament.’
backstreet in Edinburgh, such a feat was destined to be against reform. The country was creaking under an It was not a success. As a lesson in how merciless the
a mere footnote to his future achievements. By the time anachronistic system of societal control. Self-electing metropolitan press could be, it merged after a year
of his death, this jobbing printer had transformed the councils in the burghs ensured that vested interests with the Northern Reporter, which soon merged with
newspaper scene in Scotland, created the most influential were fiercely protected; citizens were subject to an the Edinburgh Star, which before the year was out had
weekly in Victorian England, and played an undeniable aggressive system of penal law, steered by tyrannical become an advertising free-sheet; that was scooped up by
role in reforming the British nation, the British Empire, judges and waved through by timid jurors; the Kirk had the Edinburgh Observer in 1827, until that ship at last
and the world that was to come. To understand how The little interest in shaking up age-old practices, however ran aground in 1845. For this failure the nation should
Spectator first emerged into the world, it is necessary to harsh and intellectually indefensible. In Dundee of the be infinitely thankful: Rintoul came to see that prospects
unearth the man who moved behind it. early nineteenth century, when its population hovered were unhappy in Scotland, and took the advice of his
Robert Stephen R intoul (1787-1858) came from between two and three thousand, the governing ‘popular’ friend Douglas Kinnaird to head to London. This brave
nowhere: his family was unknown to wider society, and party was infused with a spirit averse to change. Aware Above: A portrait reproduced from a contemporary move — of a 39-year-old with a young family in tow —
—
his birthplace, the village of Tibbermore near Perth, of this, the reformers saw that progress lay in freeing watercolour miniature (artist and current location unknown) proved to be permanent.
is known only to proud locals and Civil War historians. up the educational system: they fought to improve the In the 1820s, the capital was a magnet for those
After basic schooling in nearby Aberdalgie, Rintoul elementary and burgh schools, but their progress was clamouring for change. The crucible of Reform was
threw himself straight into the world of work, and for grindingly slow. Meanwhile, a more strident political to campaign for the management of the all-important heating up: Robert Peel was reshaping the penal
several years he was apprenticed to James Ballantyne movement to promote the true cause of the people was harbour to be wrested free from the Town Council, system, William Huskisson was clearing away trade
in Edinburgh, the publisher and friend of Sir Walter emerging from the Whig elites of earlier generations, a proposals that the Advertiser pressed hard and with protectionism, and Parliament was in genuine turmoil.
Scott. But in 1809, an opportunity opened up on the force that could at last challenge the Tory representation success. In 1818, Rintoul met another Scottish radical, The Canningite-Whig Ministry of 1827-8 was soon
Paperback Tay, and Rintoul was signed up as printer for the Dundee,
Perth, and Cupar Advertiser. Although founded only
of the Perth burghs. Its leading figures were William
Maule, MP for Angus, Charles Lord Kinnaird and his
Joseph Hume, newly elected as MP for the Aberdeen
burghs; Hume was destined to be Rintoul’s primary
to challenge long-held tribal devotions, to repeal the
Test and Corporation Acts, and to deliver Catholic
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eight years earlier, the weekly newspaper had fast won brother Douglas, George Kinloch of Kinloch, Francis ally and patron over the next four decades. Such was the Emancipation. By the time of Rintoul’s arrival, doors
for itself the reputation of being a journal sympathetic Jeffrey and Henry Cockburn — all men of Whiggish local confidence in Rintoul’s ability and integrity, that to desirable places had been helpfully opened. In May
to the burgeoning movement of reform politics. The outlook. Not only was Rintoul brought into their social in 1819 he was sent to London to represent the cause 1826, Rintoul was feverishly preparing the first number
275 x 210 mm proprietors, James and Paterson Saunders, evidently had
confidence in young Rintoul’s talents, for within two
milieu but he secured several of them as contributors
to the Advertiser : besides K inloch and his spirited
of the Guildry and Trades Incorporations of Dundee
before the Select Committee on the Royal Scottish
of a ‘general newspaper and journal of literature,’ The
Atlas. There seems to have been genuine excitement in
Thema Codes: KNT,
years he was installed as its editor, aged 24. articles regular contributors included the author Robert Burghs (1818-20). For his ‘zealous discharge of the duties his claim that this new periodical would be ‘the largest
As R intoul gained in confidence, he sedulously Mudie, the poet Thomas Hood, and ‘Scotland’s greatest entrusted to him’ he was rewarded with a gold snuff box newspaper ever printed’ on a sheet ‘nearly double the size
reworked the Dundee Advertiser to suit his purposes. nineteenth-century Churchman,’8 Thomas Chalmers. and the freedom of the town..9 Unsurprisingly, Rintoul’s of The Times.’
KNTP, DNC, WZG To the first column of the four-pager he introduced a
‘Summary of Politics’; this move, and its subsequent
Rintoul positioned himself as the primary conduit
for this new reforming force; alongside the Advertiser
outspoken journalism was not without controversy. He
had to face down several lawsuits, the most notable being
The paper was a snappy sixteen-pager that sought ‘to
concentrate in one sheet the various matters of fact and
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finessing, made Rintoul the ‘pioneer’ of a new, comment- he printed several other works in vigorous support of from Patrick Anderson, the Provost of Dundee, who was speculation which are at present scattered through many,
driven style of article — what was to become the ‘leader’. reform. In 1815, for instance, Kinloch came to Dundee sorely rattled by the allegation he had mismanaged a and which no newspaper of the common size can contain.’
978-1-912690-81-7
8 9
April 2020
£20.00
VI An irrefutable excuse for some success in this regard, inducing which doesn’t look, anyway, as if it’s
much-needed colour was provided K i ng sley A m is, Hen r y Fai rlie, going to be changed much by a couple
From Paper to Magazine by a special issue within the f irst Joh n Wai n and Br ian Inglis (a of handfuls of young English writers.
10,000 Not Out
two months of Taplin’s editorship. future editor) to become frequent
1953-75 In May 1953, the paper had two joint c ont r ibut or s . T he u n fa i l i n gly The new writers that formed The
causes for celebration: its own 125th outspoken Kenneth Ty nan had Movement in turn contributed to
anniversary, and the coronation already been taken on as a theatre the magazine’s pages. Scott also
The Spectator of 1952, a contributor hand and take with the other: while of Queen Elizabeth II. As a fitting reviewer in 1951 – doubtless not at F IR ST NOTICE OF TH E SPEC TATOR’ S succeeded in publishing several
later recalled, was ‘a fossil paper, Taplin was explicitly brought in as sig n of its enthusia sm, and its the suggestion of Harris himself. C OM PE TI TION FOR SC HO OL S, 2 0 poems of Philip Larkin for the first
edited by a dodo, and circulating the new young man in charge, he willingness to evolve, The Spectator More notably, Taplin was the f irst NOV. 19 53 time. Having been so often mocked
The History of The Spectator 1828–2020
among a decli n i ng rea der sh ip was informed by Sir Angus Watson used this anniversary to deploy its Spectator editor to introduce, in as behind the literary curve, The
of coelocanths.’398 A lthough its that ‘no change in the present first ever front-cover illustration, a October 1953, a section specifically Spectator now found itself at the
circulation in the preceding decade features of the paper will be made full-colour crown. This, if a specific for female contributors: under the A good sign of the fresh creative vanguard.
had reached its highest point ever, by the new Editor for a month, and date can exist for a gradual process, heading Spectatrix there appeared energ y i n the ba ck ha lf of the O t h e r, a d m i t t e d l y o l d e r,
the paper’s readership was steadily then only after careful consultation.’ is perhaps the moment at which a series of ten essays with titles such magazine is given by an unsigned w r iters who gave the magazine
dy ing away – for the most par t Rather than arrest any change at The Spectator transitioned from as ‘The art of giving,’ ‘The why-not leader – the f irst ‘literary leading some extra vim were the Labour
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literally. It would therefore take a all, this measure was presumably to fading newspaper to vibrant news school of fashion,’ and ‘Make mine article’ – which opened the ‘Autumn MP J.P.W. Mallalieu on spor t (a
bold and unconventional man to avoid causing more superannuated magazine; certainly the credit for andante.’ A nother encourag ing books’ section of October 1954 . Spectator first), John Betjeman on
shake The Spectator out of its pre- readers any sudden heart troubles. that successful evolution lies with sig n that Taplin was br imming Hea ded ‘In the Movement,’ its architecture (‘City and suburban’),
war format. That man emerged to A ny hopes for fresh columns of the editorship of Walter Taplin. with new ideas was The Spectator’s author, the literar y editor John and Sir Compton Mackenzie on all
beWalter Taplin (1910-86). Despite outspoken comment were dashed With the palpable loss of Nicolson’s ‘Competition for Schools’, f irst Scott, surveyed a new wave of British manner of things (‘Sidelight’). The
leaving his school in Southampton by Watson’s further advice: ‘When ‘Marginal Comment’ and Harris’ launched in November 1953. writers who seemed to be in the marked change in the magazine’s
w ith no qualif ications, he won in doubt on questions of policy, ‘Janus’ colu mns, the ma g azine The contest proved to be a great vanguard of something new: Donald feel was widely appreciated. The
There is no journal with a livelier and richer history than The Spectator. As well as being the
via night classes an exhibition to follow the Manchester Guardian, the urgently needed fresh w r iting. success, if only for four years. Among Dav ie, Thom Gunn, John Wain, Guardian noted that Taplin had
the city’s University and then a Times and the Daily Telegraph.’ Taplin soon proved to be a great its remarkable set of winners was K ingsley Amis, Robert Conquest ‘made it more a young man’s paper
scholarship to read History at The Anthea Loveday Veronica Mander and Iris Murdoch. Scott noted that than it had been for years’ in fact,
world’s oldest current affairs magazine, none has been closer over the last two centuries to
Queen’s College, Oxford. A fter I S S U E S F OR 8 A N D 15 M AY 19 53 (later Lahr), whose 1955 winning one could quite easily say ‘than ever’.
a brief spell at The Economist, he story ‘Queen of the Island’ is notable nothing dates literary fashions so Nicolson observed from the side-
worked for the War Cabinet in the for being the youngest piece of certainly as the emergence of a new lines ‘the interesting experiment
spheres of power and influence in Britain. First issued in 1828, during the dying days of the
Central Statistical Off ice; despite original writing published by The movement, and within the last year in rejuvenation that the veteran
joining the staff of The Spectator in Spectator: the author was nine.401 or so, signs are multiplying that such is at present undergoing.’4 05 But
1946, he continued over subsequent The first competition also elicited a thing is, once again, emerging. such a metamorphosis was soon to
years to produce material for the an article from Tom Pulvertaft, be jeopardised. Although he did not
Georgian era, The Spectator came out ready to spar – with the Tories and their Prime Minister, Information Research Department.
A s one w ho w a s l a t e r t o e d it
Accountancy (1961-71) and Accounting
a four teen-year-old on science
f iction: remarkably, however, he
requested that it be considered by
To these new writers he gave not
just a mission statement but a name
that stuck:
know it, Taplin’s promotion to the
editorship had been intended simply
as a stop-gap until the proprietors
the Duke of Wellington, with a corrupt political system, and with the lacklustre literary world of
and Business Research (1971-5), Taplin the magazine not for the school had found a more reliable pair of
certainly knew his numbers. competition but instead for normal The Movement, as well as being political hands to steer the ship.
Full of energ y and new ideas, publication. In the adventurous anti-phoney, is anti-wet; sceptical, To that end, T.E. (‘Peter’) Utley,
the day. Over the subsequent fifty-two Prime Ministers, The Spectator has not only watched the
Taplin wa s w i l ling and able to world of Taplin’s Spectator this was robust, ironic, prepared to be as a celebrated lea der-w r iter for
reshape The Spectator. But nervous possible – and it duly appeared, on 11 comfortable as possible in a wicked, The Times during the War, was
proprietors tend to give with one Dec. 1953. commercial, threatened world persuaded to join The Spectator in
world change but waded into the fray: it has campaigned on consistently liberal lines, fighting for 146 147
voters’ rights, free trade, the free press and the decriminalisation of homosexuality, while offering
open-minded criticism of every modern taboo and orthodoxy. guys are wall-to-wall politics.’ That The Spectator is about particularly clear that he was not going
VIII doesn’t help us. When we put Cameron
culture and books, arts, to replicate a different Spectator tradition
10,000 Not Out celebrates the 10,000th issue and recounts the turbulent and tortuous tale of 192
on our front page we tend to take a – achieved by five of the seven editors
sales hit rather than a sales jump. life. That is not obvious who had attempted the feat – of using
Making the News In his first issue, of 12 Sep. 2009,
to our potential readers. the editorship as a route into Parliament:
‘No way will I ever enter politics! The
years chock-full of crises and campaigns, of literary flair and barbed wit. Eight chapters chart in 19 95 -2 018
Nelson reported in his Diary column
that, alongside many a message of
cong r at u lat ion s, he received t he
A lot of people pass
us in W.H. Smith and
more I see it the more I harden my
resolve not to.’ Although raised in the
sort of family where it was bad manners
technicolour the evolution of the title – from radical weekly newspaper, to moralising Victorian traditional request to keep things just as
they are. David Cameron, too, sent the
think ‘These guys are
wall-to-wall politics.’
to talk about politics, Nelson became a
Spectator reader at a young age, attracted
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ith the appointment of the Times. It was during this period that he only wrote one other Spectator piece, on private request that the ‘Diary of a Notting to the magazine primarily for its liberal
guardian, to wartime watchdog, to satirical magazine, to High-Tory counsellor, to the irreverent
25th editor of the magazine, encountered a book by none other than the Bush administration’s admiration for Hill Nobody’ survive any editorial cull; outlook. The Spectator, he later recalled,
in September 2009, we enter Glover himself, The Secrets of the Press Thatcher. Although The Business went a Swedish subscriber – the nationality ‘had a magic of its own. My job is to
into contemporary times. Fraser Nelson (1999): the work was transformative, out of that in 2008, before re-emerging of his wife – simply said ‘Don’t change protect and project that.’
but influential The Spectator of the twenty-first century. The book weaves together copious
(1974-) was at once a typical and unusual and opened Nelson’s eyes to how broad as Spectator Business, Nelson was still a single thing. Least of all Taki.’ Nelson Readers were quick to get a sense of that
appointment. On the one hand, he had the vista of possibilities was within the writing regularly for the News of the concurred: outlook. For one of Nelson’s earliest moves
earned his stripes through many years sprawling and evolving world of British World. delighted the magazine’s devoted readers,
of political journalism and principled journalism. Of the book he later recalled Nevertheless, despite his deep-seated For decades it has been traditional for namely the restoration of the ‘Portrait
quotations from the magazine’s unparalleled archive, the contemporary press, private letters and debate, including three years’ sterling
work on The Spectator’s staff. On the
other hand, unlike most of the magazine’s
that Glover
made journalism sound so accessible
interest in politics, Nelson saw himself
as primarily a facts-and-figures man
rather than a writer tout court. In 2007, he
a new Spectator editor to be inundated
with calls to show his commitment
to civility by hiring a new High Life
of the Week’, which returned within a
month on 10 Oct. 2009, with Christopher
Howse rightfully back at the helm. It
staff anecdotes. editors, he had no overpowering interest
in politics throughout his education – at
Nairn Academy, his local comprehensive,
that anybody could do it. I previously
thought it was a world you could only
get into if one of your family members
claimed, ‘I’m basically a numbers geek.
Some guys are really gifted, I’m the type
who sweats blood.’ When reflecting on
columnist. But this time, not a soul has
asked for him to be sacked. All I hear
is how the old rogue has never been
has continued ever since to provide the
essential backbone of the magazine.
Over his nine years in post, Nelson has
Dollar Academy, the private school where were involved in it, and our profession his initial appointment to The Spectator in better form. This won’t please him been able to introduce a broad church
the MoD paid his fees when his father was is still quite nepotistic. he expressed his surprise at ‘even the idea much, as he prides himself on calls for of fresh figures to the Diary: Alastair
David Butterfield is a Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty posted to Cyprus, and the University of
Glasgow (History and Politics, II.1). A
successful spell in 1994 as editor of the
Nelson’s talents, nourished by Patience
Wheatcroft at The Times, soon came to
that I was competent with words. I always
thought I was a numbers guy.’ Nelson
was clear from the outset, however, that
his resignation. But it’s not that Taki is
conforming to the world. The world, I
think, is finally conforming to him.
Darling, George Osborne, Nick Clegg,
Ruth Davidson, Harriet Harman, Tristram
Hunt, Nigel Farage, Nigel Lawson,
of Classics. His academic research covers Latin literature, ancient philosophy and the history of Glasgow University Guardian (formerly
edited by Neil in 1970) opened up a door
to the fourth estate, and Nelson did not
the attention of Andrew Neil: in 2001, he
was appointed as political editor for The
Scotsman. His first piece for The Spectator
The Spectator’s kaleidoscopic outlook on
the world should not be all statistics and
politics: ‘Actually, less than 10 per cent
To settle any uncertainty about his
political outlook, Nelson acknowledged to
Norman Lamont, Peter Mandelson, Nick
Timothy, Nick Robinson, Kirsty Wark,
Robert Peston, Paul Mason, Jeremy
scholarship. Previous books have studied the philosopher-poet Lucretius, the polymath Varro
look back. appeared in November 2003, outlining the is about politics. And that is one of the interviewers that he was a Conservative, Vine, Mishal Husain, Timothy Garton
His first byline appeared in the Glasgow crisis of the NHS in Scotland.821 After the things as an editor I would like to project even though he had (and indeed has) Ash, Zoe Williams, Daniel Hannan,
Herald in October 1994. After a brief spell magazine was acquired by the Barclays a little more. We’re a journal of arts and never been a member of the party that Richard Madeley, Prue Leith, Christopher
and the scholar-poet A.E. Housman. Outside the classical world, he has written regularly on any
at the Nottingham Evening Post, he took a in 2004, however, Nelson’s association manners.’ Not long after, he reiterated that ‘often drives him to despair.’ Like many Hitchens, Tom Bower, Steven Pinker,
diploma in journalism at City University with The Scotsman – then a fellow title a predecessor at The Spectator, he also Brendan O’Neill, Nick Cohen, Matt
(1996). A few formative weeks at The in the Press Holdings group – held him The Spectator is about culture and revealed that as political editor of The Ridley, Paul Johnson, Pippa Middleton,
subject other than politics for The Spectator, where he is a contributing editor.
Independent on Sunday, launched in 1990 back from contributing to the sister books, arts, life. That is not obvious to Scotsman he did not cast a vote in general White Dee, George Carey, Lionel Shriver,
by Stephen Glover, led to Nelson spending journal regularly: before his appointment our potential readers. A lot of people elections, on the ground that journalists Anthony Horowitz, Jeffrey Archer, Irvine
five years as a business reporter at The as associate editor in January 2006, he pass us in W.H. Smith and think ‘These should preserve impartiality. He was Welsh, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid,
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Musical Architects
Creating Tomorrow’s Royal Academy of Music
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The Royal Academy of Music is one of the most prestigious conservatoires in the world, training
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generations of eminent musicians for all parts of the profession. Its alumni include Henry Wood,
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Lennox and Jacob Collier. Royal Academy graduates populate all the great orchestras and opera
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houses of the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
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They are players, singers, composers, conductors, curators, animateurs and teachers.
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Approaching its bicentenary, the Royal Academy is Britain’s oldest conservatoire. An international
organisation from its foundation, it has just completed a transformative programme of new building
at the heart of its Marylebone Road site. Bright ancillary spaces, refurbished studios and two
exceptional additions designed by Ian Ritchie Architects, the Susie Sainsbury Theatre and the Angela
Burgess Recital Hall, have already won major national and international awards for their breathtaking
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designs and outstanding acoustics, ideal for talented young singers, instrumentalists and composers.
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Recent decades have seen the Royal Academy extend its interests to jazz, musical theatre and vital
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outreach, educational and celebrated collaborative projects to foster future generations of musicians
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and music lovers. This book reveals how virtuoso architecture and technology have brilliantly
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fused the Academy’s famous Edwardian building with the modern institution’s creative values and
aspirations as it moves towards its third century.
Anna Picard studied at the Royal Academy of Music and with Dr Thomas Lo Monaco in New York.
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She worked in the field of early music before moving into journalism. From 2000-2013 she was
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classical music critic of the Independent on Sunday. In 2013, she joined The Times. She is a regular
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contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and BBC Radio Three’s Record Review.
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c. 100 images
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On Assassinations
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In this revealing look at the history of assassinations, Kenneth Baker examines over a hundred
political and religious murders or attempted murders, ranging from Julius Caesar to President
Kennedy to Osama bin Laden.
Assassins hope to change the world, but rarely succeed: Baker concludes that the assassination
of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914 was the only one that changed the history of the
world. Other assassinations, whether of monarchs, politicians, dissidents, clerics, journalists
or others at best give only a glancing blow at history. The author concludes that, in Macbeth’s
words, an assassination ‘is a poisoned chalice.’
Kenneth Baker also reveals that since 1945 there have been fewer individual assassins working
alone; now assassinations are more likely to be carried out by political and religious terrorists,
or by the security services of certain states to eliminate dissidents. Not only Russia and
Israel, but the USA, the UK and others have resorted to targeted killings when they consider
their security is under threat. On Assassinations shows how we have moved from the era of
individual assassinations, through to terror groups’ murders and now onto state-sponsored
targeted killings
Kenneth Baker, Lord Baker of Dorking CH, is a British politician and a former Conservative
MP having served in the Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher and John Major as Environment
Secretary, Education Secretary and Home Secretary. He has previously written five poetry
anthologies for Faber, five books on the history of cartoons including George III: A Life in
Caricature and George IV: A Life in Caricature, his memoirs, The Turbulent Years, and most
recently On the Burning of Books and On the Seven Deadly Sins published by Unicorn.
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240 x 196 mm
Thema Codes: AVP, AVM, AVLP
250 colour and black and white images
978-1-912690-80-0
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Cherish
David Cassidy – A Legacy of Love
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David Cassidy was one of the biggest superstars in the 1970s. Selling millions of records and
playing to record sell-out crowds around the world, he was more than just an idol for teenagers;
he was for many their saviour. The first star to be mass-merchandised, he became a magnificent
obsession in the 1970s for millions whose loyalty and devotion to him remains to this day. He
represents a time in their lives when he and his music made them completely happy: this offers
them the chance to say: ‘Thank you David for the memories.’
This book presents a collection of heartfelt stories contributed by his colleagues, friends and
fans in a deeply moving and inspiring compilation of memories. In a celebration of his life, they
explain in their own words how David impacted on them, his influence and friendship and the
lasting legacy of love he left. Contributing fans recall concert experiences, chance meetings, share
precious keepsakes and explain how he made their world a brighter place. They share examples
of his unfailing generosity, unexpected acts of kindness and how he made them feel important.
Friends write with love and respect about David’s immense talent as a musician and actor and
why he is considered one of the greatest singers of all time.
Louise Poynton was brought up in Sussex. At the age of nineteen she became the first woman
to win a nationwide contest for young reporters: the prestigious Sir William Lyons Award, run
by the Guild of Motoring Writers. She went on to work on several local, regional and daily
newspapers as a news reporter and has more than forty years’ experience with the written word,
holding every senior position up to Assistant Editor. For more than twenty years she was a Sports
Editor on regional newspapers and has been freelance since 2012. Her work has appeared in
lifestyle magazines and national newspapers. Louise has been a David Cassidy fan since 1971.
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256 pp
240 x 196 mm
Thema Codes: DNBF, AGB, A,
NHTP1, WCU
250 colour images
978-1-912690-89-3
June 2020
£30.00
MacDonald Gill
Charting a Life
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MacDonald 'Max' Gill (1884-1947) was an architect, letterer, mural painter and graphic artist of
the first half of the 20th century, best known for his pioneering pictorial poster maps including the
whimsical Wonderground Map of London Town. His beautiful painted panel maps decorate the
Palace of Westminster and Lindisfarne Castle and the alphabet he designed in 1918 is still used on
the British military headstone.
He enjoyed close links with many leading figures in the arts & crafts world: the architects Sir
Charles Nicholson, Sir Edwin Lutyens and Halsey Ricardo, the calligrapher Edward Johnston,
Frank Pick of the London Underground, and his brother – the sculptor and typographer Eric Gill.
Overshadowed in recent times by his controversial brother, MacDonald Gill was nevertheless a
significant artist of his time. With much of his four-decade output touching on the remarkable
events and developments of his time – including two world wars, the decline of Empire, the advent
of flight, and innovations in communications technology, his work also takes on a unique historical
importance. Drawing chiefly from family archives, this biography of MacDonald Gill is the first
publication to tell the story of this complex and talented man.
Caroline Walker is the great-niece of MacDonald Gill, and has been researching his life and work
since 2006. She now spends much of her time researching, writing articles, giving lectures and
running the artist's website. She has been co-curator of several exhibitions dedicated to her great-
uncle including Out of the Shadows: MacDonald Gill at the University of Brighton in 2011 and Max
Gill: Wonderground Man at the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in 2019. Caroline is an accredited
lecturer for The Arts Society.
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192 pp
270 x 225 mm
Thema Codes: WNC, WNCB,
WN, AJ, IDDU-GB-ESL
164 images
978-1-912690-79-4
March 2020
£25.00
Wild Neighbours
Portraits of London’s Magnificent Creatures
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‘London is not just a city of ten million people, it is also home to and an extraordinary
diversity of beautiful wildlife. With world population exploding and more and more
countryside being lost to urban sprawl or commercial agriculture, the sharing of urban space
with nature is more important than ever. Since London is my city, I set out to observe and
create photographic portraits of all the creatures I could find. Whilst this has taken many
hundreds of hours, it has been the happiest time imaginable as I immersed myself in the
sweetness and delight of my wild neighbours.’
Sarah Cheesbrough grew up in London and Birmingham, she swam for England, read
International Studies at university, modelled in London, Paris and Tokyo, and worked as an
advertising executive at J. Walter Thompson before striking out on her own path as a self-
taught freelance photographer.
In recent years Sarah has focused on projects that are close to her heart. Her 2012 book,
In Buddha’s Garden, featured her evocative photographs of the Buddhist monks of Luang
Prabang. Following an exhibition in 2014 curated by Founder and ex-Director of Paris Photo,
Rik Gadella, In Buddha’s Garden was selected by the Lao National Commission to UNESCO
as the gift to fellow delegates at the 34th International UNESCO Conference in Paris. In 2018,
Sarah had two London exhibitions of urban bee photographs, including one for The Royal
Parks. Wild Neighbours is the result of several years watching wildlife in London in a state of
wonder. It has been a true homecoming for Sarah, to her city, to her heart and to the Nature
that sustains her.
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Hardback Bussey Building Holborn Library Rosemary Branch
80 pp
Peckham, London, UK Holborn, London, UK Haggerston, London, UK
Stockton Cafe Pastor Toast, Norfolk
Deptford, London, UK Kings Cross, London, UK Norfolk, VA, USA
193 x 145 mm Services
Somewhere in Ukraine
Linate Airport
Milan, Italy
Oklava
Oxford Street, London, UK
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250 colour images
The George Tavern The Gallery The Barrowboy and Banker
Stepney Green, London, UK West Hampstead, London, UK London Bridge, London, UK
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Hand Dryers
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Simply the world’s most complete collection of hand dryers. Who knew that something so
normal, so instantly forgetful, so remarkably unremarkable could be such a thing of beauty
and intrigue? This book, based on Samuel’s Instagram site @handdryers, documents a stalwart
of industrial design, an item so everyday and prosaic, yet each one with so much vitality. The
evocative photographs, taken around the world from Ukraine to Los Angeles, showcase the Starbucks Hotel Rus Soho Coffee Co,
variety of design, and their relationship to the environment – some ooze nightclub sex appeal
Holborn, London, UK Kiev, Ukraine Holborn, London, UK
Tou by Tata Eatery El Zarape Rascals
Oxford Street, London, UK San Diego, CA, USA Shoreditch, London, UK
and dazzle; some a clinical sleekness; others a work-horse charm. The stories they could tell.
Guggenheim Tintern Abbey Dalston Superstore
New York City, NY, USA Walkes, UK Dalston, London, UK
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Opposite:
Cecconi’s Pizza Bar
Samuel Ryde is a British documentary photographer living in London, and travelling the world.
Soho, London, UK
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Having studied photography until 2000, it has taken until now to show his first complete body
of work, Hand Dryers. Samuel has an obsession to document the conventional parts of life we
don't notice; his Instagram project @twelvethirtyfourpm is testament to this, an eight-year body
of work in which Samuel took one photo everyday at 12.34pm.
Subway Restaurants
Subway
Subway Restaurants
Restaurants Queen Elizabeth
Queen Hall
Elizabeth Hall Rosemary
Rosemary Branch
Rosemary Branch
Branch
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Williamsburg,
Williamsburg, VA, USA
VA, USA London, UK
Southbank, London,
Southbank, UK Haggerston,
Haggerston, London,
Haggerston, London, UK
London, UK
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Pop Brixton
Pop
Pop Brixton
Brixton Henrietta Hotel
Henrietta Hotel Menier
Menier Gallery
Menier Gallery
Gallery
Brixton, London,
Brixton,
Brixton, London, UK
London, UK
UK Covent Garden,
Covent London, UK
Garden, London, UK Southwark,
Southwark, London,
Southwark, London, UK
London, UK
UK
Hardback
224 pp
195 x 130 mm
Thema Codes: WZG, NH, NHTB, NHTM, WQH
150 colour and b&w images
978-1-912690-84-8
March 2020
£14.99
Seaside 100
A History of the British Seaside in 100 Objects
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Sandcastles, donkeys, piers and sticks of rock. Beach huts, paddle steamers, promenade
shelters and ice cream cones. Our modern seaside is the sum of its parts and all those
parts have their history. This book explores the best-loved features of our favourite holiday
destinations, each object and building adding its own layer to the story of our shared seaside
heritage. Using a mixture of historic images and modern photographs the book takes a
roughly chronological journey through the things that have made our seaside distinctive. The
places where we have chosen to take our holidays for the past three hundred years have been
transformed from mere stretches of coastline but they are not like inland towns. Inside these
pages can be found a celebration of all that makes our seaside special.
Kathryn Ferry grew up near the coast in North Devon, but usually only went to the beach
out of season in her wellies. In 1998 she fell in love with beach huts during a visit to Herne
Bay in Kent. Inspired by this surprising new passion, she began researching their story and,
in the summer of 2002, she went on a two-month journey around the English coast to record
the state of the nation's huts. She has been researching their history every since and is now
the national beach hut expert. Having finished her PhD studying architectural history at the
University of Cambridge, she decided to specialise in the seaside.
She is the author of eight books, including titles on the British seaside holiday, bungalows,
1950s kitchens and, most recently, the official history of Butlin’s.
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the phrase ‘a Gothic game played with Classical counters’ – SQUARE
described as Gothic on account of the asymmetry and the display Designed by Richard
Norman Shaw, 1877–9
of materials and workmanship; classical on account of actual
style of the openings and details. It was indeed a playful style,
involving exaggerations of scale both large and small and surprise
juxtapositions of elements.3 Osbert Lancaster, compiling his
satirical guide to the styles of architecture, Pillar to Post in 1939,
called it ‘Pont Street Dutch’, writing that in this part of Chelsea,
‘the cultured frequently pointed out, with considerable pride,
that a wayfarer in that high-class residential district might easily
imagine himself to be in Vermeer’s Delft.’4 Indeed, Cadogan
Square represents the North European tendency within the
broader Queen Anne movement rather than its English identity
suggesting, in Mark Girouard’s words, ‘a hyper-concentrated
canal-side in Antwerp’.5
Victorian ‘Queen Anne’ represented a distinctive turn
in the cycle of taste, connected to new ideas about society, less
intensely Protestant in its religious practices and more willing to
acknowledge the public role of women. ‘Artistic’ was a key term
– a lifestyle choice of a generation. Indeed, one of the earliest
houses to anticipate the Queen Anne trend was designed for the
artist George Pryce Boyce (1826–97) at 35 Glebe Place, just
south of King’s Road, in 1869–71. The stucco-fronted Italianate
classicism of the standard builder’s house in the 1860s and early
1870s was to be seen everywhere in the expanding metropolis.
Previously Announced
It was a new idea to personalise the outside of a town house by
building it in a different style to its neighbours, and also relatively
unusual, before the mid 1870s, for a client to commission
Hardback an architect to design a London house, usually devising an
individual plan that would help the owner to achieve a distinctive
224 pp interior with attractive window bays and inglenooks to sit in, and
a more interesting progress from the front door to the drawing
235 x 165 mm
room for visitors, rather than the conventional straight runs
of stairs turning at half-landings. In the 1930s, at a time when
such houses were growing out of fashion, Goodhart-Rendel
Thema Codes: AM, A, AMG, AMK, AMX emphasised their friendly, informal character compared to the
type of house that they replaced, ‘in these easy-going gabled
60 colour illustrations
homes the front doors call for no red carpet across the pavement,
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No.1
Built in Chelsea
Three Centuries of Living Architecture and Townscape
S W E E T TH A M E S,
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Among the London districts, Chelsea has always held a special charm for residents and visitors
alike – spacious and gracious with the River Thames as background, but with a unique history
of artists, bohemians and good causes. Nine chapters tell episodes from this history, ranging
from the story of Chelsea Old Church through to the churches, military establishments,
theatres, restaurants, housing and shops of old and new Chelsea. The significance of the river in the early growth of Chelsea
and its enduring character. Buildings Chelsea Old Church,
Royal Hospital, Turner’s house.
The spaces between buildings can be as important as the buildings themselves, and Chelsea
has had the benefit of landowners with long-term interests in improving the experience of
residents and visitors, creating in recent years some exemplary regeneration projects that can TITLE CHAP TER TITLE
act as models for unobtrusive management of change.
Dan Cruickshank is a writer, art historian, architectural consultant and broadcaster who has made
numerous history and culture programmes and series for the BBC including Around the World in
Eighty Treasures; Adventures in Architecture; The Country House Revealed: The Intimate Histories of
Although individually designed houses featured in the
Britain’s Private Palaces; and Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British. He is the author of many
134.
The broad nave of
Holy Trinity, looking
development, mostly in Cadogan Square itself, the greater
towards the east window number of houses resulted from speculative development,
by Morris & Co.,
including nos 42–58 (even) Pont Street by Stevenson, and 63–79
books including Britain’s Best Buildings; A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea; The Secret History
with other elements in
Byzantine and classical (odd) Cadogan Square. The variety of design of these frontages
styles, some designed by
John Dando Sedding
adds to their charm. Being modelled in three dimensions with
projecting bay windows and prominent gables, unlike the flat-
of Georgian London; Spitalfields: A History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets.
and others added by his
assistant, Henry Wilson
fronted houses that had been standard in London since the Great
Fire of 1666, they look their best when viewed at oblique angles
along the street, which is how they are seen by the passer-by.
The remainder of the north side was the work of the builders
Editor of the twentieth edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s History of Architecture, Cruickshank is
Trollope, with the architect G. T. Robinson (1829–97), who
provided a series of arcades to add unity to the ground floor
while providing a continuous first floor balcony. Socially, as
an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, was an editor on the Architects’
Mark Girouard defined it, ‘the area rapidly assumed a character
suitable to its position, poised between aristocratic Belgravia and
artistic Chelsea. The first occupants varied between upper class
Journal and The Architectural Review, a visiting Professor of Architecture at the University
and upper middle class, between rich and very rich, and between
gently artistic and mildly philistine.’9
The red cliffs of Cadogan Square continue along Pont
of Sheffield and has served on the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group and on the
Street and to north and south, with a picturesque variety of
shapes found in Hans Place and Lennox Gardens, across
the boundary into Smith’s Charity land, a boundary that the
Architecture Panel of the National Trust.
development company was successful in disguising. By 1890,
the task had been completed and the Cadogan and Hans Place
Estate Company was wound up, the capital being returned
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192 pp
290 x 240 mm
Thema Codes: A, AB, AGA
c. 100 images
978-1-912690-83-1
February 2020
£30.00
Hsiao Chin and Punto
Mapping Post-War Avant-Garde
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Hsiao Chin spent his formative years in Europe experiencing the Western Modern Art
movement. As a leading post-war Asian artist, he has contributed immensely to the
development of avant-garde art and established himself in the abstract movement in Asia.
As a co-founder of Punto Movement in Milan during 1961-1966, Hsiao is the first and only
post-war Chinese artist attempting to convey Eastern philosophical ideas and the concepts of
mindfulness and self-contemplation in the Western pictorial language of abstraction. Hsiao’s
works are not only artistic representations of Asian philosophy but, in a broader context, are
an intellectualised expression of Asian ideas in their essential forms. The understanding of
the entire post-war avant-garde art scene would not be complete without mentioning Hsiao
Chin and the Punto Movement, along with American Abstract Expressionism, French Lyrical
Abstraction, and Japanese Gutai.
This book records thirteen Punto exhibitions, which demonstrates Hsiao’s contribution to the
international cultural realm throughout his artistic career. Included here are in-depth articles
on Hsiao‘s historical significance in the twentieth century. The book also introduces his iconic
oeuvres over the last six decades; work that reconciles Eastern and Western art prospects.
Dr Joshua Gong is a leading expert on contemporary Chinese art and chinoiserie. He was a
teacher in the art history department, University of Sussex. His monologue Iconography and
Schemata: A Communicating History in Painting between China and the West, 1514-1885 is
a landmark in the field. His article ‘Lv Peng and his Chinese Art History in Operation, since
1986’ was published by Journal of Art Historiography in the UK.
Images © Hsiao Chin Art Foundation.
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