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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jul 3

‘Strollers in the Palais Royal’, a charming portrayal of the most elegant den of iniquity & riches in C18th Paris & one of the many captivating scenes in ‘Neighbours & Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris & London’, by Louis Sebastien Mercier.

'An absolute treasure' - Simon Jenkins

Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jul 1

‘She describes with brilliant clarity the changing light, the intensifying, somnolent heat of a summer’s day, and its sinking back into the cool quiet of dusk. It is exquisitely drawn.’ Daily Telegraph

See link in our bio!

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jul 1

Figes guides us through the day, from the dawn (‘midnight blueblack growing grey and misty’) through midday (‘the sun was high now… shrinking what little shadow remained, fading colours’) to evening (‘the tide of shadows rising as the sunset glow faded.’)

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jul 1

Looking for the perfect novel for a summer’s day? 🌞🌷🌿📖

Eva Figes’s shimmering ‘Light’ gives an extraordinary portrait of a day in the life of impressionist painter Claude Monet, at work and at home.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 26

Trades and cries of Paris, 1771

hatter, shoe mender, newsvendor, seller of pots & pans, gherkin-seller, fishmonger

Read about the characters of Paris + London in the ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’, by Louis Sebastien Mercier. Available 1st July

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Literary Review @litreview.bsky.social · Jun 17

Arthur Christopher Benson was a pillar of the Edwardian establishment. He was supremely well connected. As his newly published diaries reveal, he was also riotously indiscreet.

Piers Brendon compares Benson’s journals to others from the 20th century.

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Piers Brendon - Land of Dopes & Tories

Piers Brendon: Land of Dopes & Tories - The Benson Diaries: Selections from the Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson by Eamon Duffy & Ronald Hyam (edd)

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Matthew Rowley @mbrowley.bsky.social · Mar 16

I’ll bang one out every now and then if I have dough fermenting, even though I’m told “that’s too much cheese” and “nobody can eat all that.” It’s important to resist such talk.

Partially eaten khachapuri on a wooden board marred with cut marks.

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Matthew Rowley @mbrowley.bsky.social · Mar 16

Nice little 64-page book on khachapuri variants and other filled breads from Georgia (not peach Georgia: lobio Georgia). Got mine from Kitchen Arts in Letters in NYC.

Small booklet: Georgian Khachapuri and Filled Breads (2018) by Carla
Capalbo.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 25

A crafty-looking Frenchman teases a thick-set Englishman about the war in America

Read about the contrasts between French & English in the captivating, plentifully illustrated ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’

Available 1 July

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 23

'A. C. Benson enters the pantheon of great English diarists' - Philip Hensher for The Spectator

'The Benson Diary' is now available to order from our website: pallasathene.co.uk/shop/bensond...

The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · Jun 12

One of the joys of the diary is its engagement with the trivial squabbles of Cambridge University.

✍️ Philip Hensher

A.C. Benson enters the pantheon of great English diarists

All great diarists have something intensely silly about them: Boswell’s and Pepys’s periodic bursts of lechery and panic; Chips Channon’s unrealistic dreams of political greatness leavened with...

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 18

A. C. Benson moved in the most varied circles. Can you name the people in the reel?

A 350,000-word selection from Benson’s controversial diaries is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark the centenary of his death. More more info see Linktree in bio.

Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 16

This edition has been prepared by the historians Eamon Duffy and Ronald Hyam and has a substantial introduction, extensive footnotes, a chronology, an index and 48 pages of photographs. It is presented as two elegant hardbacks.

#autobiography #cambridgeuniversity

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 16

Benson paints a fascinating and often very funny picture of a public life at the heart of the Edwardian literary, educational, church and political establishments; but also of a private life riven by pressures of unconsummated romantic attachments and by attacks of appalling depression.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 16

Benson kept a voluminous diary for most of his life. Considered too controversial at the time, it was sealed up after his death. Only now, with the publication of this extensive selection, can his witty and acute judgements on people, institutions and issues be fully appreciated.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 16

A. C. Benson died 100 years ago today. Born in 1862, he was a novelist, poet, educationalist and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

A 350,000-word selection from the controversial diaries of this fascinating figure is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark this centenary.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 11

‘NOTLondon: Focus on the Forgotten’ is now on sale at the Onion Café, Victoria, a green community hub.

Before the café and garden were developed here, Anthony Dawton took photographs, for 'NOTLondon', of homeless people who gathered in the space.

You can also find the book on our website.

Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 10

See review here!

literaryreview.co.uk/land-of-dope...

Piers Brendon - Land of Dopes & Tories

Piers Brendon: Land of Dopes & Tories - The Benson Diaries: Selections from the Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson by Eamon Duffy & Ronald Hyam (edd)

literaryreview.co.uk

Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 10

‘Land of Dopes and Tories’!

An excellent advance review of the forthcoming The Benson Diary in The Literary Review.

“This distillation reveals that Benson’s diary is one of the best of the kind… On a par with Walter Scott and Virginia Woolf.”

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 3

The book accompanies an exhibition at @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social, curated by Ian Warrell, which runs from 23/5 to 14/9, and will be available there, in bookshops, and on our website. See link in bio.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 3

They were photographed specially for the book at such a high resolution that we have been able to make full page and double page spreads of blown-up details that show every tiny nuance of colour and brush stroke.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · Jun 3

‘Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and his Contemporaries’ is now available from all good bookshops. It reproduces some 60 superb paintings and sketches by J. M. W. Turner and Cotman, as well as Girtin, De Wint, Cox and others, all from a private collection and very rarely seen.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · May 14

The full video can be found online.

For more information about popes through the centuries, read ‘Magick City: Travellers to Rome from the Middle Ages to 1900’ – on our website, link in bio.

Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · May 14

He is also probably the oldest person, in terms of birth year, to appear on film.

In his 1891 encyclical ‘Rerum novarum’, Leo XIII outlined the rights of workers to a fair wage, safe working conditions, and the formation of trade unions. For this he became known as the ‘Pope of the Workers’.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · May 14

Pope Leo XIV has named himself after the trailblazing Leo XIII, the first pope to address social equality and social justice.

These video extracts show Leo XIII embracing modernity as the first pope to be filmed, and so these are also the first papal blessings given via film!

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · May 12

Day 3 at the printers for ‘Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and His Contemporaries’ (see link)

The pages are sewn into sections of 16 before these are sewn into a whole book block. After the covers are glued to the block the jackets are folded around by hand.

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