
Eleri Lynn Lifts the Lid on Tudor Fashion
We spoke to Eleri Lynn, fashion historian and curator responsible for the dress collection at Historic Royal Palaces,…
We spoke to Eleri Lynn, fashion historian and curator responsible for the dress collection at Historic Royal Palaces,…
Competition time! How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must…
Mustafa Dikeç’s Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded explores unrest in contemporary urban communities. Using examples from all over…
Lynne Vallone’s analytical tour-de-force, Big and Small, investigates bodily size difference as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought….
We headed up to Edinburgh for November’s Bookshop of the Month, and chatted to Mairi from Lighthouse, Edinburgh’s…
It has been 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle…
To coincide with the launch of The Tiger in the Smoke by Lynda Nead – her third publication for…
Described as ‘intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny’ by Zadie Smith, Devorah Baum’s Feeling Jewish: A…
Brutus’s leading role in the assassination of Caesar immortalised his name, but the verdict on his act remains out…
The Warner brothers formed one of the most iconic and powerful movie studios of the 20th century, delighting…
Despite his untimely death from tuberculosis, Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen became a cult figure to a generation…
We at Heffers, Cambridge booksellers for 140 years, are great fans of Yale’s books, and we enjoy working…
Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman Can public universities use concerns about violence to deny requests to have white nationalists…
In Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization, Professor of Anthropology Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and…
Gerald Shea – Noam Chomsky, giving a lecture in Chicago in 1965, mistakenly defined language as “a…