Cornelia Parker on Marcel Duchamp

Cornelia Parker on Marcel Duchamp

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Helen Carr picks Christine de Pizan at the Gloucester history festival

Christine de Pizan was born in Italy but most of her life was spent in Paris, where her father was astrologer to the King of France. After her husband died she was left alone to bring up her three children. Christine's most famous work is The Book of the City of Ladies, and histo ...  Show more

Alex Wheatle, the Bard of Brixton

After a childhood in care in Surrey, Alex Wheatle was moved to a hostel in Brixton aged fourteen. Later he was involved in the riots and given a prison sentence, events which were covered in one of the Small Axe anthology of films by Steve McQueen. But it is Wheatle's writing car ...  Show more

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