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…
Britain
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Bletchley Park and D-Day: A Q&A with David Kenyon
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Bookshop of the Month – The Word, London
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Secret Intelligence and the Freedom of Information – by Helen Fry
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Bookshop of the Month – Janette Ray, York
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The Curious World of Samuel Pepys & John Evelyn, by Margaret Willes – A Who’s Who
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Bookshop of the Month – Suffolk Anthology, Cheltenham
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Parliamentary Bills of 1858’s One Hot Summer, by Rosemary Ashton
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Bookshop of the Month – Bookends, Keswick
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Durham Cathedral: History, Fabric and Culture
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Bletchley Park and D-Day: A Q&A with David Kenyon
Read More -
Bookshop of the Month – The Word, London
Read More -
Secret Intelligence and the Freedom of Information – by Helen Fry
Read More -
Bookshop of the Month – Janette Ray, York
Read More -
The Curious World of Samuel Pepys & John Evelyn, by Margaret Willes – A Who’s Who
Read More -
Bookshop of the Month – Suffolk Anthology, Cheltenham
Read More -
Parliamentary Bills of 1858’s One Hot Summer, by Rosemary Ashton
Read More -
Bookshop of the Month – Bookends, Keswick
Read More -
Durham Cathedral: History, Fabric and Culture
Read More
Bookshop of the Month – Janette Ray, York
For September’s Bookshop of the Month, we chose Janette Ray in the lovely historic city of York. Janette…
Back to the Garden: Books For Summer 2015
Summer is fast approaching, and while we can keep our fingers crossed that June and July will be…
The Letters of Bernard Berenson & Kenneth Clark, 28 August 1933
As the National Gallery London appoints new director Gabriele Finaldi, we look back at a fascinating correspondence between two art…
Scotland Decides: Global Politics and the Independence Referendum
In the wake of the Scottish independence referendum, which takes place on the 18th September, Yale author James E….
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…
Introduction to The Anglo-Saxon World
The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth century to the late eleventh, begins with the Roman retreat from…
Investment in Blood: Ledwidge on the cost of war
Investment in Blood, the latest book by Frank Ledwidge, analyses the cost – both financial and human – of Britain’s…
A Conversation with Pevsner editors Simon Bradley and Charles O’Brien
The Pevsner Architectural Guides were begun in 1951 by the architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83) with the aim…
Author Article: Against War and Empire. Geneva, Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century by Richard Whatmore
Richard Whatmore presents an intellectual history of the republicans who strove to safeguard Geneva’s survival as an independent…