Celebrating 50 years of the Wolfson History Prize
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the esteemed Wolfson History Prize, we are taking a trip down…
Prizes and Competitions
The Story of the Country House | The Competition
Writers in the 19th century described country houses as their own ‘little kingdoms’: self-contained units with their own…
The Story of Stansted Park
Architecture is about many things – building style, social change, technological advance, but also the human needs and…
Pevsner Photo Competition: Nottinghamshire | The Winners
Inspired by Martine Hamilton Knight’s stunning photographs in the new Pevsner guide to Nottinghamshire by Clare Hartwell, we…
Pevsner Photo Competition | Your Favourite Building in Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire Photo Competition 2020 Many of you have been admiring Martine Hamilton Knight’s photographs from the new Pevsner…
The MI9 competition: How to decipher a letter encrypted with MI9 code
Try your hand at deciphering this MI9-inspired coded letter for a chance to win Helen Fry’s books on…
How to Decorate an 18th-century Pocket
In the summer of 2020, we ran a very special design competition to celebrate the release of the…
“The Pocket” Design Competition | Decorate Your Own 18th-century Pocket
The Pocket Design Competition 2020 Unlike the pockets found on women’s clothing today, pockets in the 18th-century were…
Competition: Win a signed copy of Francis Spufford’s True Stories & Other Essays
Competition time! How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must…
An Animated World: Interview with Poet Arda Collins
Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the annual ‘Yale Series of Younger Poets’ competition. Mesmerizing and electric,…
Sue Prideaux, whose biography of Strindberg has just been longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, reflects on a memorable year for art and biography
Strindberg: A Life has been chosen as one of the 14 titles on the Longlist for the 2012…
*Now Closed* Competition: Win a copy of Pevsner Kent
Congratulations to the winner of our Pevsner competition! Further thanks to all those who entered.
Yale books prevail at the 2012 William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History
Yale University Press is proud to announce that The Eighteenth Century Church in Britain by Terry Friedman has been awarded…
Competition: Win a copy of Norman Manea’s ‘The Lair’ and a Margellos canvas tote bag
To celebrate the new titles in our pioneering Margellos World Republic of Letters translation series, for the rest of the…
Beautiful Province by Clarence Coo Wins the 2012 Yale Drama Series Award
The winner of the Yale Drama Series Award for Emerging Playwrights is Clarence Coo’s Beautiful Province. After much…