A new interpretation of Edouard Manet’s final masterpiece,
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1881-2)

Carefully placed within Manet’s iconic, Parisian scene of a barmaid at the Folies-Bergère in Paris, are two rather incongruous bottles of ordinary English ale. Positi…

In 1885, a leading British Socialist claimed that a quarter of Londoners lived in poverty. Charles Booth, a wealthy businessman from Liverpool, scoffed at the very idea and set out to prove the estimate wrong, by visiting every one of London's streets and describi…