Born in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Edward Pugh (1763 1813) was a Welsh-speaking artist and writer who worked as a miniaturist in London, exhibiting frequently at the Royal Academy. But Pugh s passion was the landscape, and he painted remarkable views of North Wales that not only captivate but also reveal the development of the Welsh economy and Welsh national consciousness. Pugh also wrote and illustrated a fascinating, informative, and humorous account of a tour of North Wales around 1800 one of the only travel books written at that time by someone who could actually converse with the...

Living with the Royal Academy: Artistic Ideals and Experiences in England, 1768-1848 offers a range of case studies which consider individual artists' personal, professional and artistic relationships with the Royal Academy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, bringing together the research of leading historians of British artistic culture during this period. Over its introduction and nine essays, this collection considers the Academy as a lived organism whose most effective role, following its establishment in 1768, was as a reference point towards, around and...

The period 1792 94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. This collection contains the key trials of London radicalism from 1792 94. It includes a general introduction, but each of the trials is introduced in its own right and supported by endnotes and further reading."

The period 1792 94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. This collection contains the key trials of London radicalism from 1792 94. It includes a general introduction, but each of the trials is introduced in its own right and supported by endnotes and further reading."

The period 1792 94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. This collection contains the key trials of London radicalism from 1792 94. It includes a general introduction, but each of the trials is introduced in its own right and supported by endnotes and further reading."

The period 1792 94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. This collection contains the key trials of London radicalism from 1792 94. It includes a general introduction, but each of the trials is introduced in its own right and supported by endnotes and further reading."

The period 1792 94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. This collection contains the key trials of London radicalism from 1792 94. It includes a general introduction, but each of the trials is introduced in its own right and supported by endnotes and further reading."