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…
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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
Historian and broadcaster AMANDA VICKERY reveals how Criminal Court transcripts can provide a uniquely personal insight into the…
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…
Review – Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
“The first thing to say is that the full title of this biography is Charles Dickens: a life…
Amanda Vickery – Unveiling the Mysteries of English Private Life
“My series unlocks the front door of the Englishman’s castle to peer into the privacies and intimacies of…
Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two
“Millions of men – who in many cases had been away for years – returned to their families…
Author Blog by Alan Allport: The British Demobilisation Experience, June 1945 – June 1946
Starting on Thursday, 18 June, 2009, I’m going to attempt to post-blog the day-by-day British experience of military…
Winner of Wolfson History Prize 2009: Dance in the Renaissance
Yale is glad to announce Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French Obsession by Margaret M. McGowan has…
Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two
Alan Allport, the author of the forth coming book: Demobbed, will be joining us from tomorrow (18 June 2009), here at the Yale London Blog, to retell the day-by-day British experience of military demobilisation after the Second World War.
Author Eamon Duffy talks about his new book: Fires of Faith
What does Fires of Faith tell us about the consequences of religious brutality? Later generations built the reign…
Terry Eagleton – Lacan to marmalade
I became a fan of the literary critic and cultural theorist Terry Eagleton during the last year of…