History
- The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne (1965)
- French artists during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune
- Napoleon III A Life by Fenton Bresler (1999)
- 1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport (2008)
- Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor by Volker Ullrich (2008)
- An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris (2013)
- Gareth Stedman Jones on Marx and 1848 (2016)
Fiction
Gustave Flaubert
- Madame Bovary (1857)
- Salammbô (1862)
- Sentimental Education (1869)
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874)
- Three Tales (1877)
- Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881)
- A Dictionary of Received Ideas (1913)
Guy de Maupassant
Émile Zola
- The Debacle (1892)
Art exhibitions
- Daumier @ the Royal Academy (January 2014)
- Inventing Impressionism @ The National Gallery (May 2015)
- Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement @ Courtauld Gallery (January 2017)
- Impressionists in London @ Tate Britain (November 2017)
- Cézanne Portraits @ The National Portrait Gallery (December 2017)
- Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell @ The National Gallery (December 2017)
- Monet and Architecture @ the National Gallery (June 2018)
- Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece @ the British Museum (June 2018)
- Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne @ the National Gallery (December 2018)
- Boilly: Scenes of Parisian Life @ the National Gallery (April 2019)
- Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet @ the Royal Academy (September 2019)
- Gauguin Portraits @ the National Gallery (December 2019)
- French Impressions: Prints from Manet to Cézanne @ the British Museum (February 2020)
- Cezanne @ Tate Modern (March 2023)
- After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art @ the National Gallery (June 2023)
- Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism @ Dulwich Picture Gallery (July 2023)
Art books
- Symbolist Art by Edward Lucie-Smith (1972)
- The Post-Impressionists by Belinda Thompson (2nd edition 1990)
- Art Nouveau by Alastair Duncan (1994)
- Symbolism by Michael Gibson (1995)
- Impressionists by Antonia Cunningham (2001)
- The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe (2006)
- Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels by Christopher Lloyd (2014)
Books & Boots 