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I’m tracking a ghost along a narrow path between the towering stacks of library bookshelves. She’s running somewhere ahead of me, a large butterfly net in her hands, and wearing her old school gym shoes even though she’s in her forties. I’ve searched for her through dim archives and libraries, through towering beechwoods and along stream beds but she always stays one step ahe...


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It has been a less than dignified start for Keir Starmer’s Labour Government in the ethics field. It is not surprising that many say a plague on both your houses. The need for a clean up was a central feature of Labour’s solemn manifesto pledge to voters and Angela Rayner in particular made it the subject of several speeches. Ironically she was one of the first to have to res...


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By Sally Faulkner

The main reason for writing this book is that the work of Cecilia Bartolomé is a joy to watch – funny, irreverent, musically adventurous, intellectually provocative, and, yes, deeply feminist. Another reason was my shock that, even in Spain, hardly anyone knows her work. She was the object of censorship both under the Franco regime – her vision of ...


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Women’s History Month offers a moment to reconsider the narratives that have shaped our understanding of women’s artistic lives. Publishing in April 2026, Jenny Anger’s Surrealist women artists and mental illness uncovers the gap between Surrealism...


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Women’s History Month invites us to look beyond the familiar narratives of empire and consider the women whose lives unfolded within and often against its structures. Tim Allender reflects on writing Empire Religiosity: Convent Habits in Colonial and Postco...


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