Books by Hilary Spurling
The Unknown Matisse
by Hilary Spurling
This book is wonderful. It interests me as a professional historian because it really puts its finger on the cross-currents of culture in this period
Elinor Fettiplace’s Receipt book
by Hilary Spurling
This book enables you to see the Elizabethans through their food in a very intriguing way. Hilary Spurling inherited from an old aunt a little leather-bound manuscript volume, which in fact contained all the recipes of someone called Elinor Fettiplace, who wrote it out in 1604. And so Spurling turned it into a book with about 200 of the recipes, with her comments and the background and history of Elinor Fettiplace and her family.
Interviews where books by Hilary Spurling were recommended
The best books on Art and Culture in Elizabethan England, recommended by Mark Girouard
Leading architectural historian, chooses books on art and culture in the Elizabethan era. From CS Lewis on literature, to the fantastic embroideries at Hardwick Hall, to baked rabbit and more.
The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque, recommended by Ruth Harris
The Belle Epoque combined a preoccupation with the noblesse of the old regime with the seeds for modernism, says Oxford history professor Ruth Harris, author of an award-winning book on the Dreyfus affair. She picks the best books on a golden period in France before the outbreak of World War I.
