Collection: Reference Library / Associated Places: Great Britain / Language: English / Work Type: history / Subject Period: 20th century

1. A history of the twentieth century in 100 maps / Tim Bryars and Tom Harper.

Creator:: Bryars, Tim
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 240 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

2. A survey of the avant-garde in Britain / [editor: Rosetta Brooks].

Date:: [1972]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations (black and white) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

3. Art labor, sex politics : feminist effects in 1970s British art and performance / Siona Wilson.

Creator:: Wilson, Siona, 1970–
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: xxix, 288 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

4. Art without frontiers : the history of the British Council, visual arts, and a changing world / Annebella Pollen.

Creator:: Pollen, Annebella
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 408 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

5. Art, cybernetics and pedagogy in post-war Britain : Roy Ascott's Groundcourse / Kate Sloan.

Creator:: Sloan, Kate, 1979–
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: x, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

6. Art, identity and cosmopolitanism : William Rothenstein and the British art world, c.1880-1935 / Samuel Shaw.

Creator:: Shaw, Samuel, 1984–
Date:: [2024]
Physical Description:: xiv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

7. Before the Arts Council : campaigns for state funding of the arts in Britain 1934-44 / Howard Webber.

Creator:: Webber, Howard
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: ix, 251 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

8. Britain yesterday and today : 1830 to the present / Walter L. Arnstein.

Creator:: Arnstein, Walter L
Date:: ©1988
Physical Description:: xvi, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

9. British and Irish art, 1945-1951 : from war to festival / Adrian Clark.

Creator:: Clark, Adrian
Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: 234 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

10. British art and the First World War, 1914-1924 / James Fox (Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge).

Creator:: Fox, James, 1982–
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: xii, 233 pages, 11 numbered pages of plates ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

11. British furniture 1820 to 1920 : the luxury market / Christopher Payne.

Creator:: Payne, Christopher, 1948–
Date:: [2023]
Physical Description:: 575 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

12. C.F.A. Voysey : arts & crafts designer / Karen Livingstone ; with Max Donnelly and Linda Parry.

Creator:: Livingstone, Karen
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

13. Chinese art objects, collecting, and interior design in twentieth-century Britain / Helen Glaister.

Creator:: Glaister, Helen, aut
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: xx, 162 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

Creator:: Parkin, Sophie
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 265 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Creating a national collection : the partnership between the Southampton City Art Gallery and the National Gallery / Susanna Avery-Quash, Jemma Craig.

Creating a national collection : the partnership between the Southampton City Art Gallery and the National Gallery / Susanna Avery-Quash, Jemma Craig.

Creator:: Avery-Quash, Susanna
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 176 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Cultural capital : the rise and fall of creative Britain / Robert Hewison.

Creator:: Hewison, Robert, 1943–
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: viii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

17. Culture, democracy and the right to make art : the British community arts movement / edited by Alison Jeffers and Gerri Moriarty.

Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: xiii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

18. Denmark in Britain : architecture, design and lifestyle, 1945-1970 / Bruce Peter.

Creator:: Peter, Bruce
Date:: [2023]
Physical Description:: xv, 259 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

19. Dye-makers of Great Britain, 1856-1976 : a history of chemists, companies, products and changes / M.R. Fox.

Creator:: Fox, M. R. (Maurice Rayner), 1915–1982
Date:: 1987
Physical Description:: 296 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Empire marketing board posters / text by Melanie Horton.

Creator:: Horton, Melanie
Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: 1 volume (folded pages) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

21. Festival of Britain 1951 / Paul Rennie.

Creator:: Rennie, Paul
Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: 127 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

22. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

Date:: [1936]
Physical Description:: 534 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

23. Gerald Laing, 1936-2011 : a retrospective.

Creator:: Laing, Gerald, 1936–2011
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 94 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

24. Great escapes / Barbara A. Bond.

Creator:: Bond, Barbara A.
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 263 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

25. Imaging migration in post-war Britain : artists of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese heritage / Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk.

Creator:: Kennedy-Schtyk, Beccy
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xiv, 217 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

26. London's arts labs and the 60s avant-garde / David Curtis.

Creator:: Curtis, David, 1942–
Date:: [2020]
Physical Description:: vi, 170 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

27. Louise Jopling : a biographical and cultural study of the modern woman artist in Victorian Britain / Patricia de Montfort.

Creator:: Montfort, Patricia de
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: xiv, 181 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. Mass photography : collective histories of everyday life / Annebella Pollen.

Creator:: Pollen, Annebella
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: xiii, 245 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Morris & Company : essays on fine printing / by William S. Peterson.

Creator:: Peterson, William S.
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: xvi, 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Nineteenth-century decoration : the art of the interior / Charlotte Gere.

Creator:: Gere, Charlotte
Date:: [1989]
Physical Description:: 408 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 27 x 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Steve Parks.

31. Parallel lives : eight women artists / Gill Clarke and Steve Marshall.

Creator:: Clarke, Gill, 1955–
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

32. Performance and spectatorship in Edwardian art writing / Sophie Hatchwell.

Creator:: Hatchwell, Sophie
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: xi, 126 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. Pevsner : the BBC years : listening to the visual arts / Stephen Games.

Creator:: Games, Stephen
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: xii, 399 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

34. Photography takes command : the camera and British architecture, 1890-1939 / Robert Elwall.

Creator:: Elwall, Robert
Date:: 1994
Physical Description:: 103 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

35. Radical art and the formation of the avant-garde / David Cottington.

Creator:: Cottington, David
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: 384 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

36. Radical Women : Jessica Dismorr and her contemporaries / Alicia Foster.

Creator:: Foster, Alicia
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

37. Sites of interchange : modernism, politics and culture between Britain and Germany, 1919-1955 / editor, Lucy Wasensteiner.

Date:: [2022]
Physical Description:: xix, 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. Suffrage and the arts : visual culture, politics and enterprise / edited by Miranda Garrett and Zoë Thomas.

Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: xxxiii, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

39. Tadema Gallery London : jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s / Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, Sonya Newell-Smith.

Creator:: Chadour-Sampson, Anna Beatriz, 1953–
Date:: [2021]
Physical Description:: 527 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

40. Taste : a cultural history of the home interior 1800 to the present day / Drew Plunkett.

Creator:: Plunkett, Drew
Date:: [2020]
Physical Description:: vii, 216 pages : illustrations (black and white and color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

41. The art of brutalism : rescuing hope from catastrophe in 1950s Britain / Ben Highmore.

Creator:: Highmore, Ben, 1961–
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: 297 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

42. The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966-1972 : a literary & cultural history / Anne Walmsley.

Creator:: Walmsley, Anne
Date:: 1992
Physical Description:: xx, 356 : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

43. The Edwardian picture postcard as a communications revolution : a literacy studies perspective / Julia Gillen.

Creator:: Gillen, Julia
Date:: 2024
Physical Description:: xii, 146 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. The lawn road flats : spies, writers and artists / David Burke.

Creator:: Burke, David (Historian of intelligence and international relations)
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: xx, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. The National Trust : the first hundred years / Merlin Waterson ; research by Samantha Wyndham.

Creator:: Waterson, Merlin, 1947–
Date:: 1997
Physical Description:: 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

46. The Orde Poynton Collection : British books and prints, 1800-1950.

Date:: [1992]
Physical Description:: 18 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

47. The place is here : the work of black artists in 1980s Britain / edited by Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles.

Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: 415 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

48. The private lives of pictures : art at home in Britain,1800-1940 / Nicholas Tromans.

Creator:: Tromans, Nicholas
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: 294 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

49. The rainbow's gravity : colour, materiality and British modernity / Kirsty Sinclair Dootson.

Creator:: Dootson, Kirsty Sinclair
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: vii, 224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

50. The sculpture of Michael Lyons / Judith LeGrove.

Creator:: LeGrove, Judith
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the artist.

51. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

Creator:: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834–1903
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

52. The tiger in the smoke : art and culture in post-war Britain / Lynda Nead.

Creator:: Nead, Lynda
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: vii, 407 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

53. The urban working class in Britain, 1830-1914 / edited by Andrew August.

Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 4 v ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

54. The Windsor years ; the life of Edward, as Prince of Wales, King, and Duke of Windsor / Text by Lord Kinross. Photos. selected by the editors.

Creator:: Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904–1976
Date:: [1967]
Physical Description:: 303 pages : illustrations, coat of arms, facsimile, portraits ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

55. The women who shaped modern art in Britain / James Scott.

Creator:: Scott, James (Orthopedist)
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

56. This dark country : women artists, still life and intimacy in the early twentieth century / Rebecca Birrell.

Creator:: Birrell, Rebecca
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

57. This is tomorrow : twentieth-century Britain and its artists / Michael Bird.

Creator:: Bird, Michael, 1958–
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: 352 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

58. Transport in Victorian Britain / edited by Michael J. Freeman and Derek H. Aldcroft.

Date:: [2008]
Physical Description:: vii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

59. Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge from old photographs / introduction and commentaries by F.A. Reeve.

Creator:: Reeve, F. A.
Date:: 1971
Physical Description:: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

60. Victorian and Edwardian children from old photographs / [compiled by] A.J. and D.K. Pierce.

Date:: 1980
Physical Description:: approximately 100 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

61. Voyaging out : British women artists from suffrage to the sixties / Carolyn Trant.

Creator:: Trant, Carolyn
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

62. Women designing : redefining design in Britain between the wars / editors, Jill Seddon and Suzette Worden.

Date:: [1994]
Physical Description:: 140 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

63. Women for peace : banners from Greenham Common / Charlotte Dew.

Creator:: Dew, Charlotte
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

64. Women's art of the British Empire / Mary Ellen Snodgrass.

Creator:: Snodgrass, Mary Ellen
Date:: [2020]
Physical Description:: xv, 169 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. A history of the twentieth century in 100 maps / Tim Bryars and Tom Harper.

2. A survey of the avant-garde in Britain / [editor: Rosetta Brooks].

3. Art labor, sex politics : feminist effects in 1970s British art and performance / Siona Wilson.

4. Art without frontiers : the history of the British Council, visual arts, and a changing world / Annebella Pollen.

5. Art, cybernetics and pedagogy in post-war Britain : Roy Ascott's Groundcourse / Kate Sloan.

6. Art, identity and cosmopolitanism : William Rothenstein and the British art world, c.1880-1935 / Samuel Shaw.

7. Before the Arts Council : campaigns for state funding of the arts in Britain 1934-44 / Howard Webber.

8. Britain yesterday and today : 1830 to the present / Walter L. Arnstein.

9. British and Irish art, 1945-1951 : from war to festival / Adrian Clark.

10. British art and the First World War, 1914-1924 / James Fox (Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge).

11. British furniture 1820 to 1920 : the luxury market / Christopher Payne.

12. C.F.A. Voysey : arts & crafts designer / Karen Livingstone ; with Max Donnelly and Linda Parry.

13. Chinese art objects, collecting, and interior design in twentieth-century Britain / Helen Glaister.

14. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

15. Creating a national collection : the partnership between the Southampton City Art Gallery and the National Gallery / Susanna Avery-Quash, Jemma Craig.

16. Cultural capital : the rise and fall of creative Britain / Robert Hewison.

17. Culture, democracy and the right to make art : the British community arts movement / edited by Alison Jeffers and Gerri Moriarty.

18. Denmark in Britain : architecture, design and lifestyle, 1945-1970 / Bruce Peter.

19. Dye-makers of Great Britain, 1856-1976 : a history of chemists, companies, products and changes / M.R. Fox.

20. Empire marketing board posters / text by Melanie Horton.

21. Festival of Britain 1951 / Paul Rennie.

22. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

23. Gerald Laing, 1936-2011 : a retrospective.

24. Great escapes / Barbara A. Bond.

25. Imaging migration in post-war Britain : artists of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese heritage / Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk.

26. London's arts labs and the 60s avant-garde / David Curtis.

27. Louise Jopling : a biographical and cultural study of the modern woman artist in Victorian Britain / Patricia de Montfort.

28. Mass photography : collective histories of everyday life / Annebella Pollen.

29. Morris & Company : essays on fine printing / by William S. Peterson.

30. Nineteenth-century decoration : the art of the interior / Charlotte Gere.

31. Parallel lives : eight women artists / Gill Clarke and Steve Marshall.

32. Performance and spectatorship in Edwardian art writing / Sophie Hatchwell.

33. Pevsner : the BBC years : listening to the visual arts / Stephen Games.

34. Photography takes command : the camera and British architecture, 1890-1939 / Robert Elwall.

35. Radical art and the formation of the avant-garde / David Cottington.

36. Radical Women : Jessica Dismorr and her contemporaries / Alicia Foster.

37. Sites of interchange : modernism, politics and culture between Britain and Germany, 1919-1955 / editor, Lucy Wasensteiner.

38. Suffrage and the arts : visual culture, politics and enterprise / edited by Miranda Garrett and Zoë Thomas.

39. Tadema Gallery London : jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s / Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, Sonya Newell-Smith.

40. Taste : a cultural history of the home interior 1800 to the present day / Drew Plunkett.

41. The art of brutalism : rescuing hope from catastrophe in 1950s Britain / Ben Highmore.

42. The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966-1972 : a literary & cultural history / Anne Walmsley.

43. The Edwardian picture postcard as a communications revolution : a literacy studies perspective / Julia Gillen.

44. The lawn road flats : spies, writers and artists / David Burke.

45. The National Trust : the first hundred years / Merlin Waterson ; research by Samantha Wyndham.

46. The Orde Poynton Collection : British books and prints, 1800-1950.

47. The place is here : the work of black artists in 1980s Britain / edited by Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles.

48. The private lives of pictures : art at home in Britain,1800-1940 / Nicholas Tromans.

49. The rainbow's gravity : colour, materiality and British modernity / Kirsty Sinclair Dootson.

50. The sculpture of Michael Lyons / Judith LeGrove.

51. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

52. The tiger in the smoke : art and culture in post-war Britain / Lynda Nead.

53. The urban working class in Britain, 1830-1914 / edited by Andrew August.

54. The Windsor years ; the life of Edward, as Prince of Wales, King, and Duke of Windsor / Text by Lord Kinross. Photos. selected by the editors.

55. The women who shaped modern art in Britain / James Scott.

56. This dark country : women artists, still life and intimacy in the early twentieth century / Rebecca Birrell.

57. This is tomorrow : twentieth-century Britain and its artists / Michael Bird.

58. Transport in Victorian Britain / edited by Michael J. Freeman and Derek H. Aldcroft.

59. Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge from old photographs / introduction and commentaries by F.A. Reeve.

60. Victorian and Edwardian children from old photographs / [compiled by] A.J. and D.K. Pierce.

61. Voyaging out : British women artists from suffrage to the sixties / Carolyn Trant.

62. Women designing : redefining design in Britain between the wars / editors, Jill Seddon and Suzette Worden.

63. Women for peace : banners from Greenham Common / Charlotte Dew.

64. Women's art of the British Empire / Mary Ellen Snodgrass.