Passions Past and Present

by Roy Strong

Writer, broadcaster and former Director of Britain’s National Portrait Gallery, Roy Strong here showcases his wide range of interests in this collection of from a meditation on beauty, reflections on the English character, the importance of history, to the consequences of devolution.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 2005

About the author

Sir Roy Colin Strong FRSL (23 August 1935 - ) is an English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer.

He has been director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He was knighted in 1983.