‘The Marquess of Queensberry: A Fractured Life’. Author Article by Linda Stratmann
The Marquess of Queensberry is perhaps as famous for destroying one of our greatest literary geniuses as he…
British History
Extract from ‘Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century’, edited by Angus Trumble and Andrea Wolk Rager
Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial…
Celebrating David Livingstone, ‘Africa’s first freedom fighter’. An extract from ‘Livingstone’ by Tim Jeal
David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history’s greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross…
‘Under the Banyan Tree: Relocating the Picturesque in British India’ by Romita Ray
Under the Banyan Tree is the first comprehensive study of the evolution and flourishing of the picturesque during the…
The Pevsner Architectural Guides and an intriguing link to the History Today Trustee’s Award Prize Bowl
Yale University Press was delighted when the Pevsner Architectural Guides series recently won the Longman – History Today Trustees’ Award, which is given…
‘Hell Upon Earth’? The True Nature of the Victorian City by Emma Griffin
The Victorian city is often painted as a place of squalor and misery for the working class, where hordes of downtrodden…
Master Architects: Inside Studio Gang
Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects Take a look inside our new book on cutting-edge architectural firm Studio Gang Architects,…
Charles Dickens: The Greatest Literary Scandal?
In his latest book The Great Dickens Scandal, Yale University Press author Michael Slater peers into the tangled web…
Following in the Footsteps of the Puritans with Francis J. Bremer
Francis J. Bremer, the author of the recently published biography, Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three…
The Great Dickens Scandal: A story which almost destablised Dickens
Yale author Michael Slater introduces his latest book on Dickens, and begins to untangle the web of intrigue…
Painting the Tudor Middle Classes: Tarnya Cooper on ‘Citizen Portrait’
In Citizen Portrait Tarnya Cooper examines the patronage and production of Tudor and Jacobean-era portraiture, focusing on how…
*Now Closed* Competition: Win a copy of Pevsner Kent
Congratulations to the winner of our Pevsner competition! Further thanks to all those who entered.
Bloomsbury before Woolf: Rosemary Ashton on the birth of London’s intellectual quarter
Published this month Victorian Bloomsbury is the first account of Bloomsbury’s evolution as the undisputed intellectual quarter of London…
Discover London this Summer (because you can’t watch sport ALL the time)
For those lucky enough to be in London this summer for the Olympics, we’ve decided to share a…
A Little History of Bedford Square: Todd Longstaffe-Gowan on the ‘superior’ central London square
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, internationally renowned landscape architect and author of The London Square, provides a short history of Bedford Square,…