• The best books on Modern British Painting - Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century by Lisa Tickner
  • The best books on Modern British Painting - A Paradise Lost: The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain 1935-55 by David Alan Mellor
  • The best books on Modern British Painting - Francis Bacon by John Russell
  • The best books on Modern British Painting - David Hockney By David Hockney by David Hockney
  • The best books on Modern British Painting - Richard Smith Artworks 1956-2016 by Alex Massouras, Chris Stephens, David Alan Mellor & Martin Harrison

The best books on Modern British Painting, recommended by Chris Stephens

Artists the world over interpreted Modernism in very distinctive ways, explains the expert curator Chris Stephens. In Britain, painters like David Hockney and Francis Bacon worked in transatlantic dialogue with their contemporaries in the US, producing “English-accented echoes.” Here, Stephens selects five of the best books on Modern British painting that illuminate its place within a global movement.

  • The best books on The BBC - Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting by Michele Hilmes
  • The best books on The BBC - Paving the Empire Road: BBC television and Black Britons by Darrell M. Newton
  • The best books on The BBC - Behind the Wireless: A History of Early Women at the BBC by Kate Murphy
  • The best books on The BBC - BBC World Service: Overseas Broadcasting, 1932-2018 by Emma Robertson & Gordon Johnston
  • The best books on The BBC - London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War by Alban Webb

The best books on The BBC, recommended by Simon J. Potter

The British Broadcasting Corporation celebrates its centenary this year. The beloved institution has always had a paradoxical identity: part monopoly and government organ, part commercial enterprise and government critic; part bringer of change, part defender of the status quo. Here Simon Potter, Professor of Modern History at the University of Bristol, talks us through the history and the transformations the BBC has undergone since it was first founded in 1922.

  • The best books on Boudica - Boudica Britannia by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
  • The best books on Boudica - Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen by Christina Unwin & Richard Hingley
  • The best books on Boudica - The Annals by Tacitus
  • The best books on Boudica - Resist: Stories of Uprising by Ra Page
  • The best books on Boudica - Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott

The best books on Boudica, recommended by Richard Hingley

Boudica was an Iron Age queen who led her people into rebellion against Roman rule in the province of Britannia. She was defeated, but only after she had burned several towns, including London, to the ground. Here Richard Hingley, Professor of Archaeology at Durham University, explains how to sift the truth from the myth, and why Boudica has remained an enduring source of fascination down the centuries.