Overview :Kenneth Clark's Civilisation (1969), was a landmark documentary series, pioneering the 'presenter as hero' model. Jonathan Conlin draws on i... Read More
Overview :Published in the National Gallery's Bicentenary year, this is the story of how one of the world's finest collections of paintings was formed... Read More
Overview :New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range-includi... Read More
Overview :Great Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of thirteen of the most influential economists of modern ... Read More
Overview :Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 ... Read More
Overview :Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period from 1700 to 1914, when each vied to be the world... Read More
Overview :When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal sh... Read More