PMC Book Night 2025

Book Night celebrated our 2025 publications by asking authors to discuss their research and answer questions about their books.

Authors who took part in Book Night:

Richard Ormond, author of John Singer Sargent:The Charcoal Portraits

Lynda Nead, author of British Blonde

Elizabeth Goldring, author of Holbein: Renaissance Master

Christine Casey, author of Architecture and Artifice: The Crafted Surface in Eighteenth-Century Building Practice

Sam Smiles, author of Turner and the Slave Trade

Author Biographies

Richard Ormond is an independent art historian and the great-nephew of John Singer Sargent.

Lynda Nead is a professor of history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Her books include The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Postwar Britain (2017), The Haunted Gallery (2008), Victorian Babylon (2000) and The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality (1992).

Elizabeth Goldring is an honorary reader at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society. She is the author of Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (2019) and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art (2014).

Christine Casey is professor of architectural history and fellow at Trinity College Dublin. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and an honorary member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.

Sam Smiles is honorary professor at the University of Exeter, and the author of The Late Works of J. M. W. Turner: The Artist and his Critics (2020).