Machine-made, mass-produced products have a lot to answer for, their accessibility having sidelined the skills and artistry of handmade, traditional...
Words by Melissa Blease Playing at the Theatre Royal, Bath until 3 December Having largely focused on the peaks and troughs of contemporary family life, the impact of divorce and the ebb and flow of long-term relationships throughout a long-established career that began circa 1978, fans of best-selling novelist Deborah...
Theatre Royal Bath until 19 NovemberWords by Melissa Blease From blaming Eve for introducing Adam to forbidden fruit to judging Liz Truss more for her wardrobe than for what she did (or didn’t) do in her brief stint as Prime Minister by way of thousands of years of similar examples...
Bath is a proud historic city, but, let’s face it, the Romans and the Georgians take all the credit. Mayor’s Guide Steve Pratt fills in some of the gaps by ruminating on what is known about the Saxons in the city from 410–1090. There are periods of scant information interspersed...
Printing is considered one of the Four Great Inventions of China (along with paper, gunpowder and the compass). A new exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art looks at the trends and developments in modern Chinese printmaking and how this reflects the culture and society of the 20th and...