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,…
British History
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,…
Yale books prevail at the 2012 William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History
Yale University Press is proud to announce that The Eighteenth Century Church in Britain by Terry Friedman has been awarded…
O Thomas Cook: Extract from ‘Beyond the Tower: A History of East London’
From Jewish merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, East London has always played…
History, Observed: Victoria Schofield on John Wheeler-Bennett – historian, royal biographer and ‘witness to history’
John Wheeler-Bennett is not a household name but, in the mid-twentieth century, he knew virtually everyone who was….
Punching Below our Weight: Frank Ledwidge takes aim at military leaders with his new ebook short
Frank Ledwidge, author of the bestselling and controversial book on British military policy Losing Small Wars, returns with…
Painting Dickens: New book and exhibition explores the great novelist’s relationship with art
Charles Dickens was a remarkably visual writer. Soon to be published by Yale, Dickens and the Artists is a unique…
The Real Dr Dee: Author article by Glyn Parry
Historian Glyn Parry discusses the subject of his new biography The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee, a book…