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Lynda Nead
Art Historian
Writer
Critic
Broadcaster
Lynda Nead is an art historian, writer, critic and broadcaster. She is currently a Visiting Professor of History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, having previously been Pevsner Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London.
She has published widely on the history of British art and culture and on gender, sexuality, the city and visual representation. Lynda's approach to visual images is interdisciplinary, examining art in its historical and social contexts and in relation to other visual media in the period.
COMING SOON
It Always Rains on Sunday
Part of the BFI Classics Series
Released 1st October 2026
The BFI Film Classics series introduces, interprets and celebrates landmarks of world cinema. Each volume offers an argument for the film's 'classic' status, together with discussion of its production and reception history, its place within a genre or national cinema, an account of its technical and aesthetic importance, and in many cases, the author's personal response to the film.
Robert Hamer's third Ealing film as director is a bleak, claustrophobic melodrama, showing a seamy side of life. Beautifully shot, with film noir-ish touches and a final pursuit sequence up there with the best. What we see is a morally bankrupt microcosm of post-WWII society, where most characters grab what they can, with no regard for anyone else.
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