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In this volume, Ian Adamson provides a comprehensive history of the College in the seventeenth century, particularly its contribution to the intellectual, educational and administrative life of London and England. He analyses its relationship with the Tudor and Stuart courts, the Corporation of London, the universities and the Royal Society and assesses the quality and effectiveness of all the professors elected during this period. Finally, he explains the presence in the College of Ben Jonson and Sir Kenelm Digby, why it is likely that Shakespeare was often in attendance and the enduring impact of John Ward’s collective biography of the professors.

Gresham College --- History --- London (England) --- Intellectual life

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape. This book, from a former curator of the Russian collections at the British Library, tells the story for the first time of Lenin's intriguing relationship with the enigmatic Apollinariya Yakubova - a revolutionary known to her comrades as the 'primeval force of the Black Earth'.The book reveals Lenin's London-based accomplices and political rivals, and sheds new light on his world-view - one which would have such a crucial impact on the twentieth century. This is the first full exploration of the formation of one of the leading political visionaries of his age. Henderson has made a series of stunning archival discoveries, published here for the first time, as well as photographs and details of the Russian revolutionaries (and indeed international police spies) who congregated in the east end of London - known then as the 'Little Russian Island'. Featuring an extraordinary amount of new archival material, this is an essential addition to our knowledge of Lenin the man and of the roots of the Russian revolution.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, - 1870-1924 --- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, - 1870-1924 --- London (England)

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This title seeks to question the modern idea that the Great War was regarded as a futile waste of life by British society in the disillusioned twenties and thirties. It concentrates on the planning of, fund-raising for, and erection of war memorials.

World War, 1914-1918 --- Monuments --- City of London (England) --- East End (London, England) --- London (England) --- Social life and customs. --- Social life and customs --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- East London (London, England) --- Armistice Day --- Anniversaries, etc.

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Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature reveals how the Bloomsbury group's fascination with beasts - from pests to pets, tiny insects to big game - became an integral part of their critique of modernity and conceptualisation of more-than-human worlds. Through a series of close readings, it argues that for Leonard Woolf, David Garnett, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, profound shifts in interspecies relations were intimately connected to questions of imperialism, race, gender, sexuality and technology. Whether in their hunting narratives, zoo fictions, canine biographies or (un)entomological aesthetics, these writers repeatedly test the boundaries between, and imagine transformations of, human and nonhuman by insisting that we attend to the material contexts in which they meet. In demonstrating this, the book enrichens our understanding of British modernism while intervening in debates on the cultural significance of animality from the turn of the twentieth century to the Second World War.

Bloomsbury group. --- Human-animal relationships in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Bloomsberries --- Arts, English --- Authors, English --- English literature --- Philosophy, English --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- History and criticism. --- Bloomsbury (London, England) --- Intellectual life

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"This book provides a unique insight into contemporary curation and management in an innovative London-based gallery. Using a critical in-depth case study exploration of IMT art gallery's 'successes' and 'failures', it illustrates and evaluates contemporary issues and challenges in curatorial initiatives and exhibition-making strategies. IMT operates as a 'hybrid space', combining characteristics of both the commercial gallery sector with non-profit artist-led or garage spaces while retaining affiliations to academic teaching and research. This book explores its structure, behaviour, history, partnerships and exhibition programme through a variety of disciplinary lenses, bringing together cultural, creative, economic, and pedagogical perspectives, as well as the effect of recent sociocultural impacts of the global financial crisis, and the Coronavirus pandemic. Research-based and thought provoking, this study will be of great interest to researchers, advanced students and professionals in curatorial studies, museum and gallery management and art markets"--

Kurator --- Art galleries, Commercial --- Art, Modern --- Art and society --- Galeries d'art --- Art --- Art et société --- Management --- Exhibitions --- History --- Gestion --- Expositions --- Histoire --- IMT Gallery (London, England) --- 2000-2099 --- England