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• The Artist’s Palette (Alexandra Loske, 2024)

  Paint-loaded palettes of renowned artists are displayed alongside their paintings, as the colours and brushstrokes are analysed to uncover surprising and fascinating new stories about the artists and their work. The book (main edition with Thames & Hudson, UK) has also been published as a US edition (Princeton UP), and in German and Italian translation, with more international editions in preparation.

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• Mary Gartside c.1755-1819: Abstract Visions of Colour (Alexandra Loske, 2024)

  This first stand-alone study on Mary Gartside's life and work was published by Paul Holberton, commissioned by art bookseller Thomas Heneage and written by Alexandra Loske. Gartside was probably the first woman in the Western world to publish on colour and colour theory. Her books, illustrated with highly inventive, abstract "blots", are now extremely rare, having been published in small print runs only.

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• The politics of feeling in Brexit Britain: stories from the Mass Observation Project (Jonathan Moss, Emily Robinson, Jake Watts, 2024)

  During Brexit, political questions were continually framed in emotional terms. The referendum was presented as a conflict between reason and resentment, fear and hope, heads and hearts. The Leave vote was interpreted as the triumph of passion over rationality, and its aftermath triggered concerns about the divisive impact of feelings on political culture. This book examines how these stories about feelings shaped public experiences and determined political possibilities.

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• John Horner and the Communist Party (Rosalind Eyben, 2024)

  CLHLWR associate researcher Rosalind Eyben’s life of her father John Horner, a leading trade unionist and activist who became disillusioned with the Communist Party. Rosalind’s book is for anyone concerned with the problem of political allegiance, personal morality and associated states of denial that were to haunt Horner in later life. It will also be of interest to scholars and students researching communism and the Communist Party.

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• The BBC: a people’s history (David Hendy, 2022)

  A monumental work of popular history, making the case that the BBC is as much of a National Treasure as the NHS.

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• Sisterhood and after: an oral history of the UK women’s liberation movement, 1968-present (Margaretta Jolly, 2020)

  This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement explores the individual and collective memories of women at its heart. Spanning at least two generations and four nations, and moving through the tumultuous decades from the 1970s to the present, the narrative is powered by feminist oral history, notably the British Library's Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project.

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