
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…
How have artists across the millennia depicted warfare? Theodore K Rabb’s wide-ranging book The Artist and the Warrior: Military…
Yesterday evening History Today magazine announced the longlist for the prestigious Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award….
This month sees the publication of an exciting new Metropolitan Museum of Art publication, which reproduces for the…
In the second in our three-part series Countdown to Global War, Evan Mawdsley, author of December 1941 discusses…
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair , 1963-2010 by Daniel Branch is an illuminating account of Kenya’s first fifty years…
Historian Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his fascinating biography of 17th-century scientist and…
December 1941 by historian Evan Mawdsley is an account of twelve days when interlinked events—including the Battle of…
To celebrate the publication of E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition we will be giving away…
Which popes have had the greatest impact on history? In his new book Ten Popes Who Shook the…
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock is an important new book from Yale about the two fifteen-year-old girls—one…
And Diverse are Their Hues (published last week by Yale University Press) is an exciting new book that…
E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World has become a cult classic since it was published…
Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art is a wide-ranging new art history book, out this month from Yale University…
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Jeffrey Herf has won the 2011 Sybil Halpern Milton prize, awarded by…
Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon, Nigel Smith’s definitive account of the British poet’s elusive life, has made the shortlist for the…