Women’s History Month: Uncovering Women’s History
For Women’s History Month 2025, we are sharing 10 free chapters from books uncovering women’s contributions to history. These extracts look at how women…
Cultural History
What defines women’s quest for beauty?
How has women’s quest for health and beauty changed over the last four hundred years? And what has been its impact on gender definition, social inequality and the sense of aging?
A Georgian and Regency Reading List
If you want to find out more about the real Ton, marriage mart and social world that inspired Netflix’s Bridgerton and Jane Austen’s novels,…
England’s Cathedrals: A Timeline — by Nicholas Orme
Nicholas Orme’s The History of England’s Cathedrals is the first history of the life and activities of all English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury…
How the Georgians Celebrated Christmas – by Penelope J. Corfield
In The Georgians, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life – politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and…
Dickensian London in A Muppet Christmas Carol – Lee Jackson
Tourists have reimagined and reinvented the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Dickens’s London for more than 150 years. Take, for example, A Muppet Christmas…
An extract from ‘Shakespeare in Bloomsbury’ by Marjorie Garber
2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s first folio, without which many of his works would have been lost. This preservation…
Martin Walser’s Death – by Michael H. Kater
Michael H. Kater, author of After the Nazis, contends with the legacy of controversial novelist Martin Walser, within the context of the emergence of…
What the Greeks Did For Us: An A-Z Guide
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of mind like the “Oedipus complex,” or a replica…
Tracking Down Eighteenth-Century Optimists and Pessimists – By Penelope J. Corfield
The Georgian era (1714–1830) was a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, the world’s first industrial revolution, and deep transformations…
The Story of Robert Burns
Murray Pittock’s Scotland is an engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years War to…
The Story of Auld Lang Syne
Murray Pittock’s Scotland is an engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years…
Christmas in London Under Cromwell
The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century…
Staff Pick: Pride
This month, Yale University Press London staff voted for their favourite book on the theme of ‘Pride‘. Find out which books they recommended and why. June’s…
Queens of the Wild by Ronald Hutton: An extract
Ronald Hutton, author of Pagan Britain and The Witch, returns with Queens of the Wild, a history of the goddess-like figures who evade both…
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