Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers…
London
A Curious Tour of Dickens’s London
From vanishing coaching inns to submerged riverside stairs, hidden burial grounds to apocryphal shops, tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of…
A Dickensland Extract: The Haunted Bridge
From vanishing coaching inns and submerged riverside stairs to hidden burial grounds and apocryphal shops… In his new book Dickensland, Lee Jackson traces the…
Dirty Old London by Lee Jackson – 50 Years in 50 Books
Dirty Old London was published in 2014. Lee Jackson’s book tells us how Victorian reformers struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and…
Christmas in London Under Cromwell
The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century…
Staff Pick: London
This month, Yale University Press London staff voted for their favourite book on the theme of ‘London‘. Find out which books they recommended and why. April’s…
Palaces of Pleasure- Q&A with Lee Jackson
The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century’s growing industrialised class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their…
Gainsborough in London | The Later Years
Susan Sloman, author of Gainsborough in London, introduces our blog readers to her long-awaited book, which follows the pre-eminent artist during his last years…
November’s Bookshop of the Month – Queen’s Park Books
We’re heading over to Queen’s Park Books for November’s Bookshop of the Month. Established in 2004 by the Fergiani Family, Queen’s Park Books boasts…
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all keep on reading over the coming…
January’s Bookshop of the Month – Camden Arts Centre Bookshop
Happy Year to all our readers! We are continuing our bookshop tour in 2020 starting with the vibrant Camden Arts Centre Bookshop. Camden Arts…
Bookshop of the Month – Housmans Bookshop, London
Just a stone’s throw away from London’s Kings Cross station is the radical Housmans Bookshop, our Bookshop of the Month for July. Founded following…
Bookshop of the Month – Tate Modern Terrace Shop, London
February’s Bookshop of the Month takes us to the banks of the River Thames and into one of the capital’s most striking buildings: the…
Bookshop of the Month – Pages of Hackney, London
This year’s final Bookshop of the Month is the delightful Pages of Hackney. East London’s beloved blue bookshop has had a truly triumphant 2018,…
Bookshop of the Month – West End Lane Books, West Hampstead
This month we popped over to the delightful West End Lane Books for our September Bookshop of the Month. Established in West Hampstead in…