Young Mr Turner: A Conversation with Eric Shanes
To delve very far inside Turner’s mind we need to get inside his art, for that is almost completely where he kept it. A…
Biography
The Last Days of Stalin: An Extract
‘Genghis Khan with a telephone.’ On 5 March 2023 it will be 70 years since the death of Joseph Stalin, the man who was…
Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen
‘Edwards has comprehensively defeated a persistent and painful historical myth and replaced it with something more complicated, more human and much more accurate.’ — Times…
Francis Barber & Mr Foote’s Other Leg
Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Jamaican manservant and heir, Francis Barber, has been gaining attention over the past year. In spring 2015 Yale released the biography…
Hitler at Home: A Conversation with Despina Stratigakos
Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations which he undertook during the mid-1930s. In a new…
Meet Ivan Maisky: The Munich Agreement
In this, the final part of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, author Gabriel Gorodetsky selects and introduces an extract to…
Meet Ivan Maisky: The Outbreak of the Second World War
In part three of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, Gabriel Gorodetsky selects and introduces an extract to coincide with the…
Meet Ivan Maisky: The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
In part two of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, Gabriel Gorodetsky shares an excerpt that provides unique insight into events surrounding…
Meet Ivan Maisky: Soviet Ambassador to London, 1932-43
As the Soviet ambassador to London from 1932-1943, Ivan Maisky had a front-row seat at some of the most pivotal events of the interwar…
Haunted by Whistler: Dan Sutherland on his biography of an elusive genius
Daniel E. Sutherland’s biography of luminary American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) is not only the first in almost twenty years, but also the…
Jewish Lives – New Biographies
Yale are very proud to publish the Jewish Lives series, a collection of biographies that focus on prominent and influential figures in the worlds of art, entertainment, literature, philosophy…
Who was Béla Bartók?
The Hungarian musician and composer Béla Bartók is the subject of a comprehensive new book by David Cooper, bringing audiences the most complete biography of Bartók…
Einstein & His General Theory of Relativity
2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and to celebrate this momentous occasion, Steven Gimbel, author of new Jewish…
Jane Dawson on John Knox
John Knox was the leader of the Protestant Revolution in Scotland during the 16th century. He was a complex and compelling individual, who had…
Francis Barber: Biography, Celebrity, Obscurity by Michael Bundock
Francis Barber lived a remarkable life. As far as we know he was born a slave on a sugar plantation in Jamaica in about…