Archaeological evidence of truly domestic dogs dates back to the Stone Age, when humans lived as bands of hunter-gatherers. The long association that followed, with dogs living alongside people as hun
This book explores the relationship between people and cattle through the ages via works of art and artefacts drawn from the rich collection of the British Museum. The author compares and contrasts im
The remarkable relationship between people and horses has been evoked in art from the beginning of the bond between them. In this beautifully illustrated book, Catherine Johns explores the horse in ar
This work provides a survey of the jewellery of Roman Britain. Fully illustrated and accessible to both the specialist and amateur enthusiast, it surveys the full range of personal ornament worn in Br
discovered in Suffolk in November 1992. Buried in the fifth century ad, the spectacular finds included twenty-nine superb pieces of gold jewellery, a dozen silver vessels, nearly a hundred silver spoo
Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished throughout 18th-century Britain. Drawing on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the
