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‘For this bond was not written on parchment but engraved on the living flesh of man’s skin, not in ink but with their mixed blood.’ When the French poet and diplomat, Alain Chartier, arrived in Scotla...

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...

‘Breaking bread with the dead, sir, it’s what we do.’ The speaker in Alan Bennett’s History Boys (the 2006 film of the 2004 play) is 18-year-old Akhtar, en route to Oxbridge, entirely convinced of his...

Women Who Dared

The Walpole Society is delighted to present the shortlist for the 2025 Berger Prize.The leading book prize for art history, the Berger Prize celebrates excellence in writing and scholarship on the arts and architecture of Britain. The prize is offered by the Walpole Society through the generosity of the Berger Collection Educational Trust. We are pleased to announce the following shortlisted titles:Esther ChadwickThe Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century BritainYale Universi

Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...

A few years ago, my colleague (and Searchlight archivist) Dr Dan Jones sent me some scans of items I might find interesting. One of them was a scan...