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…
Performing Arts
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 is designed to enliven and enhance…
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…
The Origins of Christmas Carols
In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical music canon at a moment when we can access all…
The Piano: a playlist by Susan Tomes
In celebration of the upcoming publication of The Piano: A History in 100 Pieces, we asked author and concert pianist, Susan Tomes, to curate a…
Jewish History & Culture: Stanley Kubrick
Our series of blog posts on Jewish History and Culture continues with this extract from David Mikics’ biography of Stanley Kubrick, part of our…
Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols – An extract
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all keep on reading over the coming…
Charles Rosen Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas A Short Companion – musical examples
These tracks feature pianist and author Charles Rosen performing extracts from several Beethoven piano sonatas, illustrating points made in his book Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas:…
The Classical Music Lover’s Playlist by Robert Philip
To celebrate the publication of The Classical Music Lover’s Companion To Orchestral Music, we asked Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster and musician, to curate a…
Take a tour of blue with new book ‘On Color’
We live in a world of vivid colours and colour marks our psychological and social existence. But for all colour’s inescapability, we don’t know…
Lynda Nead explores post-war Britain, 1950s culture & The Tiger in the Smoke
To coincide with the launch of The Tiger in the Smoke by Lynda Nead – her third publication for Yale – we asked her to…
What Are Brothers For? – Warner Bros, An Extract
The Warner brothers formed one of the most iconic and powerful movie studios of the 20th century, delighting audiences with many now classic films…
Eclectic and Inclusive: Inside the Association of Art Historians Conference 2017
This year the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference will focus on inclusivity and diversity in the field of art history. In reaching across…
Picture a Revolution: Russian and Soviet Art Books from Yale
2017 marks a century since the revolutionary year that brought about the fall of the Russian Empire and ushered in the rise of the…
Play All: 4 TV Shows to Bingewatch this Winter
‘Everyone who has written television criticism since the 1970s … has done so in the long shadow of Clive James’ – The Observer As Christmas nears…