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‘Strollers in the Palais Royal’, a charming portrayal of the most elegant den of iniquity & riches in C18th Paris & one of the many captivating scenes in ‘Neighbours & Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris & London’, by Louis Sebastien Mercier.
'An absolute treasure' - Simon Jenkins
'An absolute treasure' - Simon Jenkins
July 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
‘Strollers in the Palais Royal’, a charming portrayal of the most elegant den of iniquity & riches in C18th Paris & one of the many captivating scenes in ‘Neighbours & Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris & London’, by Louis Sebastien Mercier.
'An absolute treasure' - Simon Jenkins
'An absolute treasure' - Simon Jenkins
Looking for the perfect novel for a summer’s day? 🌞🌷🌿📖
Eva Figes’s shimmering ‘Light’ gives an extraordinary portrait of a day in the life of impressionist painter Claude Monet, at work and at home.
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Eva Figes’s shimmering ‘Light’ gives an extraordinary portrait of a day in the life of impressionist painter Claude Monet, at work and at home.
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July 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Looking for the perfect novel for a summer’s day? 🌞🌷🌿📖
Eva Figes’s shimmering ‘Light’ gives an extraordinary portrait of a day in the life of impressionist painter Claude Monet, at work and at home.
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Eva Figes’s shimmering ‘Light’ gives an extraordinary portrait of a day in the life of impressionist painter Claude Monet, at work and at home.
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Trades and cries of Paris, 1771
hatter, shoe mender, newsvendor, seller of pots & pans, gherkin-seller, fishmonger
Read about the characters of Paris + London in the ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’, by Louis Sebastien Mercier. Available 1st July
hatter, shoe mender, newsvendor, seller of pots & pans, gherkin-seller, fishmonger
Read about the characters of Paris + London in the ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’, by Louis Sebastien Mercier. Available 1st July
June 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Trades and cries of Paris, 1771
hatter, shoe mender, newsvendor, seller of pots & pans, gherkin-seller, fishmonger
Read about the characters of Paris + London in the ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’, by Louis Sebastien Mercier. Available 1st July
hatter, shoe mender, newsvendor, seller of pots & pans, gherkin-seller, fishmonger
Read about the characters of Paris + London in the ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’, by Louis Sebastien Mercier. Available 1st July
A crafty-looking Frenchman teases a thick-set Englishman about the war in America
Read about the contrasts between French & English in the captivating, plentifully illustrated ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’
Available 1 July
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Read about the contrasts between French & English in the captivating, plentifully illustrated ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’
Available 1 July
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June 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
A crafty-looking Frenchman teases a thick-set Englishman about the war in America
Read about the contrasts between French & English in the captivating, plentifully illustrated ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’
Available 1 July
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Read about the contrasts between French & English in the captivating, plentifully illustrated ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’
Available 1 July
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A. C. Benson moved in the most varied circles. Can you name the people in the reel?
A 350,000-word selection from Benson’s controversial diaries is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark the centenary of his death. More more info see Linktree in bio.
A 350,000-word selection from Benson’s controversial diaries is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark the centenary of his death. More more info see Linktree in bio.
June 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A. C. Benson moved in the most varied circles. Can you name the people in the reel?
A 350,000-word selection from Benson’s controversial diaries is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark the centenary of his death. More more info see Linktree in bio.
A 350,000-word selection from Benson’s controversial diaries is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark the centenary of his death. More more info see Linktree in bio.
A. C. Benson died 100 years ago today. Born in 1862, he was a novelist, poet, educationalist and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
A 350,000-word selection from the controversial diaries of this fascinating figure is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark this centenary.
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A 350,000-word selection from the controversial diaries of this fascinating figure is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark this centenary.
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June 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A. C. Benson died 100 years ago today. Born in 1862, he was a novelist, poet, educationalist and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
A 350,000-word selection from the controversial diaries of this fascinating figure is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark this centenary.
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A 350,000-word selection from the controversial diaries of this fascinating figure is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark this centenary.
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‘NOTLondon: Focus on the Forgotten’ is now on sale at the Onion Café, Victoria, a green community hub.
Before the café and garden were developed here, Anthony Dawton took photographs, for 'NOTLondon', of homeless people who gathered in the space.
You can also find the book on our website.
Before the café and garden were developed here, Anthony Dawton took photographs, for 'NOTLondon', of homeless people who gathered in the space.
You can also find the book on our website.
June 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
‘NOTLondon: Focus on the Forgotten’ is now on sale at the Onion Café, Victoria, a green community hub.
Before the café and garden were developed here, Anthony Dawton took photographs, for 'NOTLondon', of homeless people who gathered in the space.
You can also find the book on our website.
Before the café and garden were developed here, Anthony Dawton took photographs, for 'NOTLondon', of homeless people who gathered in the space.
You can also find the book on our website.
‘Land of Dopes and Tories’!
An excellent advance review of the forthcoming The Benson Diary in The Literary Review.
“This distillation reveals that Benson’s diary is one of the best of the kind… On a par with Walter Scott and Virginia Woolf.”
An excellent advance review of the forthcoming The Benson Diary in The Literary Review.
“This distillation reveals that Benson’s diary is one of the best of the kind… On a par with Walter Scott and Virginia Woolf.”
June 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
‘Land of Dopes and Tories’!
An excellent advance review of the forthcoming The Benson Diary in The Literary Review.
“This distillation reveals that Benson’s diary is one of the best of the kind… On a par with Walter Scott and Virginia Woolf.”
An excellent advance review of the forthcoming The Benson Diary in The Literary Review.
“This distillation reveals that Benson’s diary is one of the best of the kind… On a par with Walter Scott and Virginia Woolf.”
The book accompanies an exhibition at @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social, curated by Ian Warrell, which runs from 23/5 to 14/9, and will be available there, in bookshops, and on our website. See link in bio.
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June 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The book accompanies an exhibition at @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social, curated by Ian Warrell, which runs from 23/5 to 14/9, and will be available there, in bookshops, and on our website. See link in bio.
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They were photographed specially for the book at such a high resolution that we have been able to make full page and double page spreads of blown-up details that show every tiny nuance of colour and brush stroke.
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June 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
They were photographed specially for the book at such a high resolution that we have been able to make full page and double page spreads of blown-up details that show every tiny nuance of colour and brush stroke.
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‘Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and his Contemporaries’ is now available from all good bookshops. It reproduces some 60 superb paintings and sketches by J. M. W. Turner and Cotman, as well as Girtin, De Wint, Cox and others, all from a private collection and very rarely seen.
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June 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
‘Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and his Contemporaries’ is now available from all good bookshops. It reproduces some 60 superb paintings and sketches by J. M. W. Turner and Cotman, as well as Girtin, De Wint, Cox and others, all from a private collection and very rarely seen.
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Pope Leo XIV has named himself after the trailblazing Leo XIII, the first pope to address social equality and social justice.
These video extracts show Leo XIII embracing modernity as the first pope to be filmed, and so these are also the first papal blessings given via film!
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These video extracts show Leo XIII embracing modernity as the first pope to be filmed, and so these are also the first papal blessings given via film!
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May 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Pope Leo XIV has named himself after the trailblazing Leo XIII, the first pope to address social equality and social justice.
These video extracts show Leo XIII embracing modernity as the first pope to be filmed, and so these are also the first papal blessings given via film!
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These video extracts show Leo XIII embracing modernity as the first pope to be filmed, and so these are also the first papal blessings given via film!
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Day 3 at the printers for ‘Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and His Contemporaries’ (see link)
The pages are sewn into sections of 16 before these are sewn into a whole book block. After the covers are glued to the block the jackets are folded around by hand.
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The pages are sewn into sections of 16 before these are sewn into a whole book block. After the covers are glued to the block the jackets are folded around by hand.
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May 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Day 3 at the printers for ‘Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and His Contemporaries’ (see link)
The pages are sewn into sections of 16 before these are sewn into a whole book block. After the covers are glued to the block the jackets are folded around by hand.
pallasathene.co.uk/shop/impress...
The pages are sewn into sections of 16 before these are sewn into a whole book block. After the covers are glued to the block the jackets are folded around by hand.
pallasathene.co.uk/shop/impress...
An elegant but scurrilous depiction of cardinals brawling at the conclave of 1644, published in Protestant Amsterdam
May 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
An elegant but scurrilous depiction of cardinals brawling at the conclave of 1644, published in Protestant Amsterdam
Day 2 at the printers for ‘Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and His Contemporaries’
The pages are dried after printing, and cut, folded and gathered. You can also see the foiling for the cover.
Which machine or process is the most satisfying?
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The pages are dried after printing, and cut, folded and gathered. You can also see the foiling for the cover.
Which machine or process is the most satisfying?
bsky.app/profile/holb...
May 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Day 2 at the printers for ‘Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and His Contemporaries’
The pages are dried after printing, and cut, folded and gathered. You can also see the foiling for the cover.
Which machine or process is the most satisfying?
bsky.app/profile/holb...
The pages are dried after printing, and cut, folded and gathered. You can also see the foiling for the cover.
Which machine or process is the most satisfying?
bsky.app/profile/holb...
The word 'conclave' comes from Latin for ‘with key’ as cardinals used to be locked in the palace until they reached a majority in their voting for the new pope. They also had their rations reduced during this time!
Read more in Loyd Grossman’s ‘Elephant in Rome’
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Read more in Loyd Grossman’s ‘Elephant in Rome’
pallasathene.co.uk/shop/an-elep...
May 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The word 'conclave' comes from Latin for ‘with key’ as cardinals used to be locked in the palace until they reached a majority in their voting for the new pope. They also had their rations reduced during this time!
Read more in Loyd Grossman’s ‘Elephant in Rome’
pallasathene.co.uk/shop/an-elep...
Read more in Loyd Grossman’s ‘Elephant in Rome’
pallasathene.co.uk/shop/an-elep...
This is crucial when you're trying to approximate the subtlety of a Turner seascape (or the spectacular saturation of Cotman's cobalt blues). The green box is for measuring densities along the colour band.
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April 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is crucial when you're trying to approximate the subtlety of a Turner seascape (or the spectacular saturation of Cotman's cobalt blues). The green box is for measuring densities along the colour band.
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There each sheet is carefully inspected to check colours. If they’re not right, the density of one or more of the inks is increased or reduced along narrow bands, allowing a huge amount of control.
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April 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
There each sheet is carefully inspected to check colours. If they’re not right, the density of one or more of the inks is increased or reduced along narrow bands, allowing a huge amount of control.
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The printing press is actually 4 presses, each using 1 colour of ink: yellow, red, blue, black. Each is applied separately via aluminium plates that transfer the ink to a roller which then transfers it to the sheet of paper. (In the video the blue plate is being checked.)
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April 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The printing press is actually 4 presses, each using 1 colour of ink: yellow, red, blue, black. Each is applied separately via aluminium plates that transfer the ink to a roller which then transfers it to the sheet of paper. (In the video the blue plate is being checked.)
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At the printers! Technical explanations in thread...
‘Impressions in Watercolour’ reproduces superb paintings and sketches by William Turner and others. See the exhibition from 23/5 to 14/9 @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social
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‘Impressions in Watercolour’ reproduces superb paintings and sketches by William Turner and others. See the exhibition from 23/5 to 14/9 @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social
pallasathene.co.uk/shop/impress...
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April 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
At the printers! Technical explanations in thread...
‘Impressions in Watercolour’ reproduces superb paintings and sketches by William Turner and others. See the exhibition from 23/5 to 14/9 @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social
pallasathene.co.uk/shop/impress...
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‘Impressions in Watercolour’ reproduces superb paintings and sketches by William Turner and others. See the exhibition from 23/5 to 14/9 @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social
pallasathene.co.uk/shop/impress...
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One of Friedrich's compelling sepia landscapes, so admired by Goethe Rock Arch in the Uttewalder Grund, Elbe Valley - c. 1801. #landscape #Goethe #Friedrich #Romanticism
March 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
One of Friedrich's compelling sepia landscapes, so admired by Goethe Rock Arch in the Uttewalder Grund, Elbe Valley - c. 1801. #landscape #Goethe #Friedrich #Romanticism
Just arrived - first new Lives of the Artists for a while. Top authors! and never before in English that we can see
See it on Issuu here: issuu.com/pallasathene...
See it on Issuu here: issuu.com/pallasathene...
February 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Just arrived - first new Lives of the Artists for a while. Top authors! and never before in English that we can see
See it on Issuu here: issuu.com/pallasathene...
See it on Issuu here: issuu.com/pallasathene...