Rodney Dale

Examines the industrial revolution, discussing how developments in the harnessing of power and methods of transportation changed the way we work and play.

"The definitive biography of the iconic English artist, packed with weird and wonderful artwork, and a foreword by Benedict Cumberbatch, star of the forthcoming film on Wain's life. 'Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world'. Broadcast in 1925 by H.G. Wells, these words characteristically foretold the future of the Wain cat which has, once more, become the century's most recognizable image in cat art. During their heyday,...