Clayton, Tim – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:21:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Clayton, Tim – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 James Gillray https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/james-gillray/ Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/james-gillray/ A lavishly illustrated biography of James Gillray, inventor of the art of political caricature
 
James Gillray (1756-1815) was late Georgian Britain’s funniest, most inventive, and most celebrated graphic satirist and continues to influence cartoonists today. His exceptional drawing, matched by his flair for clever dialogue and amusing titles, won him unprecedented fame; his sophisticated designs often parodied artists such as William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, and Henry Fuseli, while he borrowed and wittily redeployed celebrated passages from William Shakespeare and John Milton to send up politicians in an age-as now-where society was fast changing, anxieties abounded, truth was sometimes scarce, and public opinion mattered.
 
Tim Clayton’s definitive biography explores Gillray’s life and work through his friends, publishers-the most important being women-and collaborators, aiming to identify those involved in inventing satirical prints and the people who bought them. Clayton thoughtfully explores the tensions between artistic independence, financial necessity, and the conflicting demands of patrons and self-appointed censors in a time of political and social turmoil.
 
Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

]]> Trafalgar The Men The Battle The Storm https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/trafalgar-the-men-the-battle-the-storm/ Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/trafalgar-the-men-the-battle-the-storm/ Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson.

On 21 October 1805, a massive naval battle off the coast of Spain decided mastery of the seas. Then, over the following days and nights, the battleships and their exhausted crews endured a gale of awesome fury. As Captain Charles Tyler wrote to his wife Margaret, ‘the wind blew a perfect storm’.

The authors of the bestselling FINEST HOUR tell this story not only through the diaries, letters and memoirs of the men who wrestled with the enemy and the elements, but also through the eyes of their wives and children. Whether you are already familiar with this period of history or are coming to it for the first time, TRAFALGAR is a book that will enthral as it illuminates an event whose repercussions still echo today.

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