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The Mayfair Book Groupette – Moustache Fashions in Pre-Waterloo France by Etienne Chabert

Location: The Red Room, Pimlico Wilde, Mayfair Attendees: • Julian Molyneux (Chair, Pimlico Wilde) •...

From the upcoming Handbook of Lesser-Known Artists – Collectif Umbra

“The Frozen Shadows of Collectif Umbra: A Brief History of Light’s Captives” By Dr. Helena...

Cunningham’s Law: Error as Epistemic Catalyst

by Archia Tanz It has become something of a digital truism that the fastest way...

Pedagogies of Paradox: Verticality and Authority in John Milton and Mary Poppins

That John Milton, the blind epicist of the Commonwealth, and Mary Poppins, the airborne governess...

A Calamity in Pigment: Archibald Plimpton-Smythe on the First Impressionist Exhibition (Paris, 1874)

Edited, Annotated, and Introduced by Sarah Hilton of Pimlico Wilde, from the copy discovered by...

Exhibition Review- The Geometry of Screaming: Angles of Agony in 14 Movements

Artist: Isolde Grack Gallery: The Gallery of Radical Completion, Notting Hill This is a hard...

Does the British Crown Still Have a Claim to France?

And if so, should an invasion be imminent? It is one of those questions that...

Was Napoleon Actually an Englishman?

by Constance Addle Abstract: Traditional consensus places Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) as a Corsican-born French emperor...

Jakob Reinhardt (1829–1892): The Painter of Ashes

From the Handbook of Lesser-known Artists Among the labyrinth of forgotten 19th-century artists, Jakob Reinhardt...