From John Wood’s vast 1740s Royal Forum on the Ham to Apollodorus Architecture’s 2023 Roman Colosseum scheme for Bath Rec, this visual polemic explores what wasn’t built - immense crescents, vast piazzas, a concert hall, a crystal palace, law courts masquerading as a Greek temple, and a Brutalist library – a fascinating depiction of the city that nearly was.

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A circular library like a Roman temple at Trinity; a civic forum along King’s Parade, flanked by colossal Baroque buildings and a soaring obelisk; the Fitzwilliam Museum as a Gothic church; Brutalist ziggurats at St John’s; an underground Master’s Lodge at Trinity Hall; these are sone of the paper dreams of a collegiate city that might have been.

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This book offers the first sustained account of ornamental gardening in Regency Britain, revealing a vivid, feminine-inflected landscape where horticulture, fashion and sociability intertwined. Behind this world of perfume and spectacle lay a striking social shift. These stages for alfresco entertainments were devised by women, working with designers to realize their visions of exuberant pleasure grounds.

All Around is Fairy Ground has been reviewed in Literary Review and Country Life.

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This is the first biography of Basil Champneys, writer, artist, poet, biographer, architect.  From the artistic milieu of Hampstead, Champneys forged a circle of patrons and friends for whom he devised beautiful homes, churches and civic buildings, his most important collaboration that with Millicent Fawcett, political activist and campaigner for women’s rights, with whom he created Newnham College, Cambridge.

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