The historian and presenter on his new book about 12,000 years of British art, BBC philistinism and Banksy’s ‘money-making machine’.

Adams, a 20th-century engineer and art connoisseur who fastidiously collected the work of John Ruskin, a 19th-century English writer and artist. He admired Ruskin throughout his life, saying once ...

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