Lydia Hamlett is Academic Director in History of Art at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. She is a co-founder of the British Murals Network (britishmurals.org).
This study is rich in new methods of looking and understanding, and of imagining and re-conjuring the impact of these murals in the time of their production. The author explores political and philosophical content as well as their multi-layered aesthetic potency. --The Art Newspaper