The Bloomsbury Photographs: 6 Images from the book
Through these six examples, author Maggie Humm highlights some of her favourite images included in the book
Literature
Women in Translation Month: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
The Cecile and Theodore Margellos World Republic of Letters series identifies works of cultural and artistic significance previously overlooked by translators and publishers, canonical works of…
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…
A Curious Tour of Dickens’s London
From vanishing coaching inns to submerged riverside stairs, hidden burial grounds to apocryphal shops, tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of…
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…
A Dickensland Extract: The Haunted Bridge
From vanishing coaching inns and submerged riverside stairs to hidden burial grounds and apocryphal shops… In his new book Dickensland, Lee Jackson traces the…
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey – 50 Years in 50 Books
A Little History of Poetry is part of Yale’s ‘Little Histories‘ series. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the…
Jane Austen’s Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson – 50 years in 50 books
Jane Austen’s Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson is due to be published on 12 September 2023. Hilary Davidson – an expert on Regency fashion –…
Illustrating Retroland: A Q+A with Nathan Burton
What does it take to illustrate a cover for a book about books? We caught up with Nathan Burton, the illustrator of Retroland, to…
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…
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…
Stalin and His Books: The Librarian’s Tale
Geoffrey Roberts, author of Stalin’s Library, recounts the story of Shushanika Manucharyants, Stalin’s personal librarian, who he inherited from Lenin and was responsible for…
150 Years of Gilgamesh
The year 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the rediscovery of the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh. The epic had been forgotten for around two thousand…