Author Article by Theodore Rabb: Tracing the depiction of war, from heroes in Assyria to misery in Guernica
How have artists across the millennia depicted warfare? Theodore K Rabb’s wide-ranging book The Artist and the Warrior: Military…
History
The Longman-History Today Book of the Year longlist is announced, with three Yale titles in the running
Yesterday evening History Today magazine announced the longlist for the prestigious Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award….
The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp: Reconstructing a masterpiece of Iranian literature and art
This month sees the publication of an exciting new Metropolitan Museum of Art publication, which reproduces for the…
Author Article By Evan Mawdsley: Countdown To Global War, Part Two – 5 November 1941
In the second in our three-part series Countdown to Global War, Evan Mawdsley, author of December 1941 discusses…
Author Article by Daniel Branch: Kenya and Somalia, landscape of tension
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair , 1963-2010 by Daniel Branch is an illuminating account of Kenya’s first fifty years…
Michael Hunter wins Samuel Pepys prize for ‘Boyle: Between God and Science’
Historian Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his fascinating biography of 17th-century scientist and…
Author Article by Evan Mawdsley: Countdown to Global War, Part One – 18 October 1941
December 1941 by historian Evan Mawdsley is an account of twelve days when interlinked events—including the Battle of…
Competition: 5 copies of our new Illustrated Edition of ‘A Little History of the World’ to give away on Twitter!
To celebrate the publication of E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition we will be giving away…
Pope Idol: New book by Eamon Duffy asks ‘Who was the most influential Pope?’
Which popes have had the greatest impact on history? In his new book Ten Popes Who Shook the…
Elizabeth and Hazel: New book captures a snapshot of racial tension in America
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock is an important new book from Yale about the two fifteen-year-old girls—one…
Author article by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair: Colour in Islamic Art and Culture
And Diverse are Their Hues (published last week by Yale University Press) is an exciting new book that…
New illustrated edition of Gombrich’s classic ‘A Little History of the World’ is published today!
E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World has become a cult classic since it was published…
Author Article by Aileen Ribeiro: On Beauty
Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art is a wide-ranging new art history book, out this month from Yale University…
Jeffrey Herf’s ‘Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World’ has won the Sybil Halpern Milton Prize
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Jeffrey Herf has won the 2011 Sybil Halpern Milton prize, awarded by…
Nigel Smith’s ‘Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon’ makes the shortlist for Best First Biography Prize
Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon, Nigel Smith’s definitive account of the British poet’s elusive life, has made the shortlist for the…