Rosemary Hill

Rosemary Hill, a contributing editor at the LRB, is writing a history of antiquarianism.

In the LRB Archive:

• Short Cuts: Successive John Murrays · 8 November 2018

• At the British Museum: ‘Ian Hislop’s Search for Dissent’ · 11 October 2018

• Gobblebook: Unhappy Ever After · 21 June 2018

  • In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter by Miranda Seymour
  • Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist by Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin and Adrian Rice

• On the Titanic · 24 May 2018

• What does she think she looks like?: The Dress in Your Head · 28 March 2018

• Video: What does she think she looks like? · 28 March 2018

• Snakes and Leeches: The Great Stink · 4 January 2018

  • One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton

• Don’t learn shorthand · 27 September 2017

• Puffed up, Slapped down: Charles and Camilla · 7 September 2017

  • Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life by Sally Bedell Smith
  • The Duchess: The Untold Story by Penny Junor

• Short Cuts: What Writers Wear · 27 July 2017

• One’s Self-Washed Drawers: Ida John · 29 June 2017

  • The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John edited by Rebecca John and Michael Holroyd

• At Pallant House: Victor Pasmore · 20 April 2017

• Churchill’s Faces · 30 March 2017

• Video: British Propaganda in the Second World War · 25 January 2017

• Britain is Your Friend: British WW2 Propaganda · 15 December 2016

  • Persuading the People: British Propaganda in World War Two by David Welch

• Snob Cuts: Modern Snobbery · 3 November 2016

• Herberts & Herbertinas: Steven Runciman · 20 October 2016

  • Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman by Minoo Dinshaw

• Video: What is a ‘week-end’? · 19 July 2016

• Do put down that revolver · 14 July 2016

  • The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House between the Wars by Adrian Tinniswood

• At Sotheby’s: Debo’s Bibelots · 17 March 2016

• At Tate Modern: Alexander Calder · 3 March 2016

• Video: Rosemary Hill on Angela Carter’s poetry · 26 January 2016

• Bypass Variegated: Osbert Lancaster · 21 January 2016

  • Osbert Lancaster’s Cartoons, Columns and Curlicues: ‘Pillar to Post’, ‘Homes Sweet Homes’, ‘Drayneflete Revealed’ by Osbert Lancaster

• Short Cuts · 7 January 2016

• At the Barbican · 3 December 2015

• Bright Blue Dark Blue: ‘Weatherland’ · 5 November 2015

  • Weatherland by Alexandra Harris

• Petulance is not a tragic flaw: Edward and Mrs Simpson · 30 July 2015

  • Princes at War: The British Royal Family’s Private Battle in the Second World War by Deborah Cadbury

• At Waterloo · 2 July 2015

• Death in Belgravia · 5 February 2015

  • A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan by Laura Thompson

• At the V&A · 23 October 2014

• At the V&A 2 · 9 October 2014

• No Clapping: The Bloomsbury Memoir Club · 17 July 2014

  • The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club by S.P. Rosenbaum, edited by James Haule

• At Tate Britain (2): Kenneth Clark · 3 July 2014

• At Tate Britain: ‘Ruin Lust’ · 3 April 2014

• Only More So: 1950s Women · 19 December 2013

  • Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties by Rachel Cooke

• In Split · 26 September 2013

• At the Whitechapel: ‘Black Eyes and Lemonade’ · 23 May 2013

• Looking for a Way Up: Roy Strong’s Vanities · 25 April 2013

  • Self-Portrait as a Young Man by Roy Strong

• Flings: The Writers’ Blitz · 21 February 2013

  • The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel

• The Last Intellectual: The Queen Mother’s Letters · 6 December 2012

  • Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother edited by William Shawcross

• At the National Portrait Gallery: ‘The Lost Prince’ · 6 December 2012

• Against Michelangelo: ‘The Pinecone’ · 11 October 2012

  • The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow

• In Walthamstow: William Morris · 13 September 2012

• At the Ashmolean: The Capture of the Westmorland · 19 July 2012

• Hairy Fairies: Angela Carter · 10 May 2012

  • A Card from Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp

• Shaving-Pot in Waiting: Victoria’s Albert · 23 February 2012

  • Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport
  • Albert by Jules Stewart

• At the Hayward: David Shrigley · 23 February 2012

• As God Intended: Capability Brown · 5 January 2012

  • The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown 1716-83 by Jane Brown

• No False Modesty: Edith Sitwell · 20 October 2011

  • Edith Sitwell: Avant-Garde Poet, English Genius by Richard Greene

• What We Are Last: Old Age · 21 October 2010

  • Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old by Jane Miller

• Gentlemen Did Not Dig: 18th-Century Gap Years · 24 June 2010

  • The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment by Jason Kelly

• I Will Tell You Everything: Iris Murdoch · 22 April 2010

  • Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War – Letters and Diaries 1939-45 edited by Peter Conradi
  • With Love and Rage: A Friendship with Iris Murdoch by David Morgan

• Late Worm: James Lees-Milne · 10 September 2009

  • James Lees-Milne: The Life by Michael Bloch

• Written out of Revenge: Bowen in Love · 9 April 2009

  • Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Ritchie Letters and Diaries 1941-73 edited by Victoria Glendinning, with Judith Robertson
  • People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen edited by Allan Hepburn

• Making Do and Mending: Penelope Fitzgerald’s Letters · 25 September 2008

  • So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald edited by Terence Dooley

• Impervious to Draughts: Das englische Haus · 22 May 2008

  • The English House by Hermann Muthesius, edited by Dennis Sharp, translated by Janet Seligman and Stewart Spencer

• At the Royal Academy: The Treasures of the Society of Antiquaries · 18 October 2007

• Why we have them I can’t think: ‘Mrs Woolf and the Servants’ · 16 August 2007

  • The Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service by Alison Light

• Keep Calm: Desperate Housewives · 24 May 2007

  • Can Any Mother Help Me? Fifty Years of Friendship through a Secret Magazine by Jenna Bailey

• Bang, Bang, Smash, Smash: Beatrix Potter · 22 February 2007

  • Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear

• Taunted with the Duke of Kent, she married the Aga Khan: Coming Out · 19 October 2006

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

• Short Cuts: Stonehenge for the solstice · 6 July 2006

• Tragedy in Tights: Poor Queen Caroline · 22 June 2006

  • Rebel Queen: The Trial of Caroline by Jane Robins

• Even Purer than Before: Angelica Kauffman · 15 December 2005

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

• Patrician Poverty: Sybille Bedford · 18 August 2005

  • Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford

• Strenuously Modern: At Home with the Stracheys · 3 March 2005

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

• Agog: Love and madness in 18th century London · 7 October 2004

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

• Hard-Edged Chic: The ‘shocking’ life of Schiap · 19 February 2004

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

• I am the thing itself: Hooray for Harriette · 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

• In Memory of Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois: Where is Bohemia? · 6 March 2003

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

• Meringue-utan: Rosamund Lehmann’s Disappointments · 8 August 2002

  • Rosamond Lehmann by Selina Hastings

• ‘We would rather eat our cake than merely have it’: Victorian men and women · 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

• Positively Spaced Out: ‘The Building of England’ · 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

• Bigger Peaches: Haydon · 22 February 2001

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

• Frock Consciousness: fashion and frocks · 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

• Swaying at the Stove: The Cult of Elizabeth David · 9 December 1999

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

• Boulevard Brogues: Having your grouse and eating it · 13 May 1999

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

• A Scene of Furniture: Hogarth · 4 February 1999

  • Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow

• Anything but Staffordshire · 18 September 1997

  • Rare Spirit: A Life of William De Morgan 1839-1917 by Mark Hamilton

• The Limit · 2 November 1995

  • Christopher Wood: An English Painter by Richard Ingleby
  • Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms by Sally Festing

• Heaven’s Gate · 8 September 1994

  • Pugin: A Gothic Passion edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright

• Denatured · 2 December 1993

  • Karl Friedrich Schinkel: ‘The English Journey’ edited by David Bindman and Gottfried Riemann, translated by F. Gagna Walls
  • The Modernist Garden in France by Dorothée Imbert

• Into the Gulf · 17 December 1992

  • A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846 by Alethea Hayter
  • Painting and the Politics of Culture: New Essays on British Art 1700-1850 edited by John Barrell
  • London: World City 1800-1840 edited by Celina Fox

• In memory of Lydia Dwight · 9 April 1992

  • Architecture and the After-Life by Howard Colvin
  • The Art of Death: Visual Culture in the English Death Ritual c.1500-c.1800 by Nigel Llewellyn

• Smocks · 5 December 1991

  • Gertrude Jekyll by Sally Festing
  • People’s Parks by Hazel Conway
  • The History of Garden Design: The Western Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day edited by Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot

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