Was good fun chatting to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book. You can listen to our chat here newbooksnetwork.com/connoisseurs... and, as they say, ‘wherever you get your podcasts’
Check out our Featured New Work interview with Lewis Ryder on H-Material Culture. We discuss his new monograph with @manchesterup.bsky.social about early 20C British collecting 'from below', _Connoisseures and Conmen_ #MaterialCulture networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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Lewis Ryder, Connoisseurs and conmen: The contest for cultural authority in early twentieth-century Britain (Manchester University Press, 2026), https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177391/T...
In 1925 Hilditch gave an unspecified prize to punters who correctly guessed the value of one of his vases (see next post ). I want you to guess the price he said it was worth. A clue - he said his whole collection of 57,000 objects was worth £250,000, but later revised this to £2,500,000.
