Over the last 20 years, FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, has become the UK’s leading organisation for commissioning, exhibiting, promoting and supporting artists’ work and innovation in the fields of film, video, and new media. This anniversary volume revisits FACT projects that have played a vital part in shaping new media art history as we understand it today. Essays by Lewis Biggs, Sarah Cook, Sean Cubitt, Andy Miah, Laura Sillars and Mike Stubbs discuss key developments over the last 20 years, also charting FACT’s emergence as a leader in art, research and creative technology.

Kim Philby is perhaps the most notorious traitor in British History and the archetypal spy: ingenious, charming and deceitful. The reluctance of the British and Russian governments to reveal full details of his career meant that for many years a shortage of evidence fuelled controversy. Was Philby an ideological spy, working for the Soviet Union out of Communist conviction, or was he prompted by a personality defect to choose a life of treachery? Was Philby the perfect agent, the 'KGB masterspy', or just plain lucky? In this new biography, Edward Harrison re-examines the crucial early years of Philby's work as a Soviet agent and British intelligence officer using documents from the United Kingdom National Archives, and private papers.

This collection of essays is a fitting publication for Liverpool's octocentenary, marking the period of the city's earliest proto-development as well as its other contributions to medievalism. The essays in the first section of the book outline the scope of the medievalist tendency as it rolled out across the British Isles from the eighteenth century onwards, while the second section of the book examines medievalism in Liverpool.

2009 is the bicentenary of the birth of the English writer, translator, critic and amateur artist Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-1893). Bringing together a comprehensive collection of her surviving correspondence, the Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake reveals significant new material about this extraordinary figure in Victorian society.