On the Shelves – Buildings of England: Wiltshire

The first edition of the Buildings of England: Wiltshire by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was published in 1963, as part of the 46 volume series covering all of the English counties. Pevsner wrote or co-authored almost all of the books published between 1951 and 1974, visiting two counties a year in his holidays from teaching at […]

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On the Shelves – Cooking with Alcohol

Cooking with Alcohol by Susannah Rickard (née Swinn, PR 2007-09) contains over one hundred recipes will teach you to use one of the most popular ingredients in history in ways you’ve never imagined. Learn why alcohol deserves a firm place in your kitchen as well as your glass, and explore the ways that alcohol can […]

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On The Shelves – 12 Birds to Save Your Life

Charlie Corbett (C1 1990-95) has written a book, “12 Birds to Save Your Life – Finding Happiness in Nature“, due to be published in June. “Can you recognise the cheerful chirrups of the house sparrow? A song thrush singing out at winter’s darkest hour? Or the beautiful, haunting call of the curlew? At a time […]

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On the Shelves – The Art Museum in Modern Times

Charles Saumarez Smith (C1 1967-71) has written a book The Art Museum in Modern Times looking at how art museums changed in the past century and where they are heading in the future due to be published in March 2021. “A compelling examination of the art museum, this sweeping book explores how the architecture, vision, […]

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On the Shelves: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Jonny Oates (PR 1982-87), British Liberal Democrat politician and member of the House of Lords, has published his autobiography, I Never Promised You A Rose Garden.   “Aged fifteen and armed with a credit card stolen from his father, Jonny Oates ran away from home and boarded a plane to Addis Ababa. His plan? To […]

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On the Shelves – Martha by Walker Zupp (B1 2012-14)

Walker Zupp (B1 2012-14) has published Martha, a dystopian detective novel set in a future of civil wars and hallucinogenic drugs. Find out more and order the book here.   “Zupp’s bleak vision of the future is, unfortunately, all too convincing, and his darkly comic prose offers perhaps the best means of facing it as […]

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On the Shelves – “Public Schools and the Second World War”

David Walsh (C1 1960-65) has, with Sir Anthony Seldon, published “Public Schools and the Second World War”. The book follows on from the first book “Public Schools and the Great War”, and revisits those same schools in the Second World War. “Privileged conservative traditions of private schools were challenged in the inter-war years by the […]

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