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Rosemary Hill

Rosemary Hill, whose biography of Pugin is just out and much acclaimed, is writing a PhD thesis on antiquaries.

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subscriber-only content At the Royal Academy: The Treasures of the Society of Antiquaries · 18 October 2007

Why we have them I can’t think · 16 August 2007

Keep Calm · 24 May 2007

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subscriber-only content Bang, Bang, Smash, Smash · 22 February 2007

subscriber-only content Taunted with the Duke of Kent, she married the Aga Khan · 19 October 2006

  • Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes by Fiona MacCarthy  Buy this book

Short Cuts: Rosemary Hill goes to Stonehenge for the solstice · 6 July 2006

subscriber-only content Tragedy in Tights · 22 June 2006

subscriber-only content Even Purer than Before · 15 December 2005

  • Miss Angel: The Art and World of Angelica Kauffman by Angelica Goodden  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Patrician Poverty · 18 August 2005

  • Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford

subscriber-only content Strenuously Modern · 3 March 2005

  • Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family by Barbara Caine  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Agog · 7 October 2004

  • Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the 18th Century by John Brewer  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Hard-Edged Chic · 19 February 2004

  • Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli by Dilys Blum

subscriber-only content I am the thing itself · 25 September 2003

  • Harriette Wilson's 'Memoirs' edited by Lesley Blanch
  • The Courtesan’s Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King by Frances Wilson

subscriber-only content In Memory of Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois · 6 March 2003

  • Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts by Elizabeth Wilson
  • Quentin & Philip by Andrew Barrow

subscriber-only content Meringue-utan · 8 August 2002

  • Rosamond Lehmann by Selina Hastings

subscriber-only content ‘We would rather eat our cake than merely have it’ · 4 October 2001

  • A Circle of Sisters: Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin by Judith Flanders
  • The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862-1939 by Adam Nicolson
  • Victorian Diaries: The Daily Lives of Victorian Men and Women edited by Heather Creaton

subscriber-only content Positively Spaced Out · 6 September 2001

  • The Buildings of England: A Celebration Compiled to Mark 50 Years of the Pevsner Architectural Guides edited by Simon Bradley and Bridget Cherry

subscriber-only content Bigger Peaches · 22 February 2001

  • The Immortal Dinner: A Famous Evening of Genius and Laughter in Literary London, 1817 by Penelope Hughes-Hallett

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 not available in archive Frock Consciousness · 20 January 2000

  • The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Fashion Writing edited by Judith Watt
  • Twentieth-Century Fashion by Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye
  • A Century of Fashion by François Baudot
  • The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914 by Christopher Breward
  • Black in Fashion by Valerie Mendes

 not available in archive Swaying at the Stove · 9 December 1999

  • Elizabeth David: A Biography by Lisa Chaney
  • Waiting at the Kitchen Table. Elizabeth David: The Authorised Biography by Artemis Cooper

 not available in archive Boulevard Brogues · 13 May 1999

  • Girlitude: A Memoir of the Fifties and Sixties by Emma Tennant

 not available in archive A Scene of Furniture · 4 February 1999

  • Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow