‘The Orphanage’ – An Extract
Written by Serhiy Zhadan, widely considered to be one of the most important young writers in Ukraine, The…
Humanities
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‘What the did Crusades ever do for us?’ by Roger Crowley
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Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
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Younger Sons of Regency England (Part I) – The Story of Benjamin Smith
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Bletchley Park and D-Day: A Q&A with David Kenyon
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Nazi Germany and Modernist art
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Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
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Why Marx Was Right, by Terry Eagleton – an extract
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Astrid Lindgren: A Life in Pictures
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The Ten Books of Terry Eagleton
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Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton, An Extract
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‘What the did Crusades ever do for us?’ by Roger Crowley
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Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
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Younger Sons of Regency England (Part I) – The Story of Benjamin Smith
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Bletchley Park and D-Day: A Q&A with David Kenyon
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Nazi Germany and Modernist art
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Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
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Why Marx Was Right, by Terry Eagleton – an extract
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Astrid Lindgren: A Life in Pictures
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The Ten Books of Terry Eagleton
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Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton, An Extract
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I Live in the Slums – An Extract
We are delighted by the news that Can Xue’s I Live in the Slums, translated by Karen Gernant…
The art of writing and reading poetry
by Lucy Newlyn Creativity is mysterious, and cannot be learned or taught. But the craft of poetry is…
Cromwell: A Killjoy Regime?
The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then…
Bruno Lohse, Nazi art plunderer – An extract from Goering’s Man in Paris
Jonathan Petropoulos— I remember clearly my first meeting with Bruno Lohse in June 1998 at the Zentralinstitut in…
Jewish History & Culture: Survivors – an extract
This next post in our series on Jewish History and Culture features an extract from Survivors: Children’s Lives…
Jewish History & Culture: Holocaust Testimonies
This post, the latest in our series on Jewish History and Culture, looks at holocaust survivor testimonies. It…
Staff Pick: Gift Books
To celebrate the end of 2020 and Christmas, we asked our staff to recommend Yale Books they’d like…
Jewish History & Culture: Migration Stories
This first post in our new series on Jewish History and Culture looks at stories of movement and…
Marking Time: Objects in Early Modern History
During the early modern period, people’s relationship with the concept of time and their personal experience of it…
Marking Time: Objects, People & Their Lives, 1500-1800
How do we measure the days of our lives? Through more than 450 objects from an extraordinary private…
The MI9 competition: How to decipher a letter encrypted with MI9 code
Try your hand at deciphering this MI9-inspired coded letter for a chance to win Helen Fry’s books on…
The men behind MI9’s Q-gadgets: Christopher Clayton Hutton and Charles Fraser Smith
MI9’s ‘Q-gadgets’ have made it into the public imagination through the adventures of James Bond. But who was…
Face Values: George Beresford’s photographs of Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell
As social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram become ubiquitous in our daily lives, you could be…
Understanding the US Election
Yesterday saw the first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the run up to the 2020…