Staff Pick: The Sea
This month, Yale University Press London staff voted for their favourite book on the theme of ‘The Sea‘. Find out…
Naval history
Hellfire and Redemption – an extract from Sons of the Waves
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
Five Things You Might Not Know About London’s Maritime History
Margarette Lincoln offers five things that you may not know about London’s maritime world in the age of…
Civil Wars by David Armitage – An Extract
For much of recorded history, the most frequent, horrific, destructive and yet strangely overshadowed form of collective human…
Accidental Circumnavigators: A story of anonymous sailors, soldiers, slaves, missionaries & adventurers
Harry Kelsey’s new book The First Circumnavigators contains fascinating stories of treachery, greed, murder, desertion and disaster, but also shows…