Coming soon! From the Girl Guides to the Orkney Steam Navigation Company: a unique and visually arresting chapter in British maritime history.
Flag Waves: House Flags from the National Maritime Museum
Charlotte Hall, curator of The Peace Museum, talks us through some of the wonderful badges in their collection. Part of our Irregulars Online series of essays.
Irregulars Online
Written by See Red members, detailing the group’s history, the book features their brilliant screenprints from the 1970s and 1980s.
See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974-1990
Enamel pin with orders over £30
While stocks last, we’re sending a snazzy Four Corners Books enamel pin, designed by John Morgan, to customers spending over £30 on our website. UK deliveries only, and will be applied automatically to eligible orders.
Our Irregulars Online series of essays on aspects of art and design history continues. Hassan Mahamdallie tells the story of the Grunwick Strike of the late 1970s, illustrated with images of the posters and banners created in support of the strike.
Irregulars Online
A new book surveying the manuals, pamphlets, posters and ephemera from the Cold War about Britain’s readiness — or not — for nuclear attack.
Nuclear War In The UK
Some of the most striking – and joyful – American art of the 60s, made while the artist was living as a Catholic nun in California.
Come Alive! The Spirited Art Of Sister Corita
For the second book in the Irregulars series, David Clarke has selected material from the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk, now held at The National Archives, to present the remarkable stories behind these images, including alien craft on the A1, flying saucers over Hampstead, and a spaceship landing at a primary school.
UFO Drawings From The National Archives
We’re proud to introduce our newest project, one that we’ve been beavering away at for over a year now: Four Corners Irregulars, a series of books presenting a new look at the history of modern British visual culture.
We have chosen a wide range of different subjects, ranging from politics to hobbies, and stretching from 1945 to the present day. All are linked by the remarkable visual creativity in Britain beyond art galleries and museums. Some of the work we feature is by artists working outside of the gallery context and some was made by people who didn’t consider themselves artists at all.
The first volume is by William Hogan and David Titlow, about Eyeball Cards, the mysterious business cards created by CB radio enthusiasts in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ‘Breakers’ would chat over the airwaves at a time when the technology was yet to be legalised and would create handles for themselves to help keep their identity a secret. The result is a window into an outpouring of creativity that prefigures online identities – social media personas from before the internet.
Read about Irregular #1, Eyeball CardsBooks
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