Unicorn Publishing Group: 22 books
Percy Moore Turner
Connoisseur, Impresario and Art Dealer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Grudgingly acknowledged as the main mentor for the Courtaulds in building their art collections, the London and Paris art dealer, Percy Moore Turner, is now largely forgotten in this country. Yet, in France, he was honoured by the French Government with the award of Officer and then Commander of the...
On the Burning of Books
How flames fail to destroy the written word
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
In this revealingly illustrated book, the political sage Kenneth Baker records the many times throughout history when books have been burnt for political, religious, or personal reasons. Ranging politically from Ancient China to the Nazis, from Animal Farm to Chairman Mao; religiously, from the Spanish...
Eighteenth-Century Women Artists
Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The eighteenth century was an age when not only the aristocracy but a burgeoning middle class could enjoy a remarkable flowering of the arts. But it was a man’s world; any woman who wished to succeed as an artist had to overcome numerous obstacles. In a society in which women were required to marry,...
Hamel 4th July 1918
The Australian & American Victory
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The Battle of Hamel is arguably, the most important battle of the First World War yet it is still relatively unknown. It was turning point of the Great War and saw American troops fighting alongside Australian troops in their first taste of war on foreign soil, making the reputation of the man who...
Shades of Green
My Life as the National Trust's Head of Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This book incorporates lessons learned over a quarter of a century of managing, renewing and caring for the gardens of the National Trust; negotiating change with a variety of colourful characters, including former owners, now tenants. It traces the very British way the Trust learned about conserving...
Lansdowne
The Last Great Whig
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
A remarkable figure of British politics between the late Victorian and interwar years, Lord Lansdowne was among the last hereditary aristocrats to wield power by birth. Over the course of a distinguished fifty year career he served as Governor-General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State...
The Riddle
Illuminating the story behind The Riddle of the Sands
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
A new edition of the definitive study of the background to the writing of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, now beautifully illustrated by Martyn Mackrill. It includes details of Childers’ own sailing experiences and also a detailed account of the reception afforded the book in official...
Dynastic Rule
Mikhail Piotrovsky and the Hermitage
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Published to coincide with the centenary of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Dynastic Rule celebrates one of the great success stories of a stormy period of Russian history. This book tells the story of two directors of the State Hermitage Museum, who (for over five decades between them) have presided...
Moving Heaven and Earth
Capability Brown's Gift of Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
This beautifully illustrated book, with the vast majority of illustrations photographed by the author, makes a fitting tribute to the world-famous 18th century landscape architect Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-1783) in his Tercentenary year. Moving Heaven and Earth reveals the driven polymath...
Painter of Pedigree
Thomas Weaver of Shrewsbury – Animal Artist of the Agricultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The industrial and agricultural revolutions transformed the face of Britain. Fiery blast furnaces, pit-head steam engines and fuming lime-kilns scarred a landscape cut across by canals, turnpikes and railways. Within enclosed pasture and parkland, farm and sporting animals of startling proportions...
Knits & Pieces
A Knitting Miscellany
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Knits & Pieces is a definitive and entertaining illustrated guide to one of the world’s most popular crafts, knitting. Revisit its earliest traces, uncover the useful (and the not-so-useful), the historical, the humourous… and discover how this universal craft often brings out the best in...
Never Fear
Reliving the Life of Sir Francis Chichester
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
In Never Fear – Reliving the Life of Sir Francis Chichester Ian Strathcarron follows in the footsteps and wakes of Sir Francis’s life of adventure, adversity and triumph. Born in 1901 into a troubled childhood in rural Devon, he suffered through the sadism of the English public school system,...
by Lord Kenneth Baker
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
In this fascinating book Kenneth Baker explores how the Seven Deadly Sins – Pride, Anger, Sloth, Envy, Avarice, Gluttony and Lust – have shaped history from the Greek and Roman Civilisations, through their heyday in the Middle Ages, when sinners really believed they could go to Hell for all eternity,...
Earth to Earth
A Natural History of Churchyards
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
From the earliest pagan sites to modern urban cemeteries, burial grounds have always enjoyed a sacred, protected status in the history of society. Consequently they have become tranquil oases in which wildlife can flourish – a microcosm of the natural habitat long since disappeared from the surrounding...
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