February Book of the Month: ‘Ravel: A Life’ by Roger Nichols
This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French…
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Religion, regimes and revolution: Discovering the Middle East
From Egypt and Dubai to Yemen and Palestine, Yale’s extensive range of newly-published books on the Middle East…
‘Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak’ shines a light on the Middle East’s least understood state
Tarek Osman has been making a name for himself with his authoritative book Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser…
Amanda Vickery: From Page to Screen
AMANDA VICKERY took the BBC by storm with her three-part history documentary series ‘At Home with The Georgians’….
From Returning Soldiers to Travelling Merchants: Yale triumphs at at Longman-History Today Awards
January has been a successful month for Yale University Press, as ALAN ALLPORT’s Demobbed: Coming Home After the…
Podcast: G. A. Bradshaw discusses ‘Elephants on the Edge’
G. A. BRADSHAW discusses her new book Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach us About Humanity with…
Author Article by Michael Slater: Charles Dickens – An Attempt on His Life
In Charles Dickens, MICHAEL SLATER draws upon a lifetime’s study to bring us a fascinating exploration of the…
Author Article by David Crystal: John Wayne or Eminem? Explaining Language to Younger Readers
In A Little Book of Language DAVID CRYSTAL sets out a lively narrative history of language aimed specifically at…
Author Article by Nicholas Thomas: How the empire brought invention, as well as exploitation, to the Pacific
Islanders is a compelling account of the lived experience of the empire in the Pacific, the last region to…
Author Article by Erik Levi: Mozart and the charade of fascist culture
In Mozart and the Nazis, ERIK LEVI reveals how the Third Reich sought to further the goals of…
Author Article by Ian Robertson: Mapping the Peninsular War
IAN ROBERTSON, author of An Atlas of the Peninsular War, reveals how he developed a passion for the…
Author Article by Amanda Vickery: Court of Public Opinion – Transcribing Georgian England
Historians use the records of the Old Bailey to study criminal justice and the criminal underclass, but you…
Amanda Vickery, new BBC TV series
This autumn, the BBC will be showing a new series about Georgian private life, based around Amanda Vickery’s highly…
Book of the Month – December
FICTIONAL LONDON: Dickens’s Tales of the City From his earliest published stories to his last uncompleted novel, London…
Nature’s Copycats
Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage | Peter Forbes Now Available from Yale University Press You keep noticing…