Armada by Geoffrey Parker – 50 Years in 50 Books
In December 2022, Yale University Press published Geoffrey Parker’s latest book: Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance…
Humanities
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The Bloomsbury Photographs: 6 Images from the book
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Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
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Why I Became an X Troop Commando
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Six People Who Shaped Madrid
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Illustrating A Little History of Psychology
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Art of the Grimoire: 7 Spell Books Through History
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What Stories Do Old Towns Tell?
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A Dickensland Extract: The Haunted Bridge
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Illustrating Retroland: A Q+A with Nathan Burton
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75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
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The Bloomsbury Photographs: 6 Images from the book
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Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
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Why I Became an X Troop Commando
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Six People Who Shaped Madrid
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Illustrating A Little History of Psychology
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Art of the Grimoire: 7 Spell Books Through History
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What Stories Do Old Towns Tell?
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A Dickensland Extract: The Haunted Bridge
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Illustrating Retroland: A Q+A with Nathan Burton
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75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
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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…
Going to Church in Medieval England by Nicholas Orme – 50 Years in 50 Books
Going to Church in Medieval England is a detailed account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from…
75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
Andrew Seaton’s Our NHS, a History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution explores the full 75-year history of the NHS,…
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…
Women in Intelligence by Helen Fry – 50 Years in 50 Books
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars by Helen Fry is due to be published…
In Search of the River Jordan
Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has diverted the River Jordan…
Henry III’s Westminster Abbey as a Coronation Church
Henry III rebuilt Westminster Abbey during his reign. He designed it from the start as a Coronation church. This extract…
What is ‘Liveliness’ in Tudor art? By Dr Christina Faraday
Dr Christina Faraday considers ‘liveliness’ in Tudor art.
Earth Day: A Reading List
We’ve pulled together a reading list of blog posts and extracts for Earth Day 2024, engaging with perspectives…
King Æthelstan – Sarah Foot
This extract from Sarah Foot’s book, Aethelstan: The First King of England, looks at the early life of…
Illustrating A Little History of Music: Q+A with The Diggingest Girl
Each book in our Little Histories series is illustrated by a different contemporary artist-illustrator, whose specially commissioned work…
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…
Stalin: A Reading List
Joseph Stalin led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953 in a reign marked by…
Candlemas: An Extract from ‘The Stripping of the Altars’
In The Stripping of the Altars, Eamon Duffy recreates lay people’s experience of religion in the pre-Reformation church,…