“The Pocket” Design Competition | Decorate Your Own 18th-century Pocket
The Pocket Design Competition 2020 Unlike the pockets found on women’s clothing today, pockets in the 18th-century were highly practical, large, and detachable. Such…
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Blooming Flowers by Kasia Boddy – An Extract
The fact that the daisy grows in so many places — native to western, central and northern Europe, it has naturalised in most temperate…
Staff Pick: Summer Reads
Welcome to our new monthly post. Each month Yale University Press London staff members will recommend their favourite Yale titles on a different theme….
Conversations: Colonialism
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in times of continuing racial injustice. As…
A Closer Look At Art | Portraiture
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and artists showcased in the National Gallery,…
Conversations: Understanding Protest
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in times of continuing racial injustice. As…
Conversations: To Describe a Life by Darby English
A quotation from the French philosopher and political activist Simone Weil is the first thing the reader encounters upon starting chapter one of To…
Conversations: History of Slavery
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in times of continuing racial injustice. As…
Architecture of the Islamic West: Innovative, Impressive and … Overlooked?
Some of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the Mosque of Córdoba, the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo and…
The Field of Cloth of Gold – 500th anniversary
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all keep on reading over the coming…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Zeus (and Apollo)
As an aid to students, teachers and parents, we have constructed an A–Z of the World taken from E. H. Gombrich’s, A Little History…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: You!
As an aid to students, teachers and parents, we have constructed an A–Z of the World taken from E. H. Gombrich’s, A Little History…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Xerxes
As an aid to students, teachers and parents, we have constructed an A–Z of the World taken from E. H. Gombrich’s, A Little History…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Witchcraft
As an aid to students, teachers and parents, we have constructed an A–Z of the World taken from E. H. Gombrich’s, A Little History of…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Versailles
As an aid to students, teachers and parents, we have constructed an A–Z of the World taken from E. H. Gombrich’s, A Little History…