Apethorpe – a house fit for kings, and queens
‘The great age of the royal progress ended with the Civil War, but members of the royal family…
Britain
The Forgotten King of England: Louis VIII
In an article to mark 800 years since Louis VIII was proclaimed king of England – on 2…
Bookshop of the Month – Warwick Books
This month we head to Warwickshire for our bookshop of the month. Located in the central Market Place,…
Bookshop of the Month – The Grove Bookshop
This month’s Bookshop of the Month is the lovely Grove Bookshop, located in Ilkley on the edge of the…
Easter & Medieval Food – by Chris Woolgar
Easter and Medieval Food by Chris Woolgar, author of The Culture of Food in England, 1200–1500 Chocolate eggs,…
Windows Should Dream… Pevsner & Stained Glass
The subject of stained glass windows has become an increasingly important aspect of the Pevsner guides, both in…
Pevsner People Power: The Aldeburgh petition
‘The counties of England implicitly argue in their architecture that our ancestors knew what they were about and…
Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the Wall
Nineteenth-century Britain produced some of the most notable and innovative landscape painters of all time and saw the…
General Election 2015: Get Ready, Get Reading!
General Election 2015. Get Ready! Get Reading! The UK general election is fast approaching. Despite current Prime Minister…
The Old Boys: Toffs, Top Hats & Pasties
David Turner, author of The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School, examines the controversial issues of education…
Durham Cathedral: History, Fabric and Culture
‘Grey towers of Durham, Yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles’, proclaimed Sir Walter Scott. New…
The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots – Stephen Alford
The award-winning Mary Queen of Scots (2018) proves that the Scottish Queen remains as fascinating a figure as…
Two American Photographers, Britain and Ireland: A Meeting
Today, courtesy of our colleagues at the Huntington Gallery, the Yale Books Blog shares a guest post from…
Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower
This gorgeous book – one of our favourite publications for the summer – explores depictions of the natural world…
The Great Plague:
A People’s History
During Medieval times, the Black Death wiped out one-fifth of the world’s population. Four centuries later, in 1665,…