This blog was written and researched by Dr. Nathan Tamblyn, Library Volunteer.  This book, more commonly known simply as Erskine May, is the authoritative reference source for the conventions which […...

This blog was written and researched by Dr Anna-Lujz Gilbert On the outside, it’s an unassuming and slim little volume in a twentieth-century marbled binding. Open it up, however, and […]

Fashionable shoppers in Regency London could step away from the cold, dark streets into Rudolph Ackermann’s (1764-1834) ‘Repository of Arts’ and be dazzled by his new gas-lighting system, shining down...