Francis Barber and Black British History
Since the publication in 2015 of The Fortunes of Francis Barber (now reissued in paperback) there has been an outburst of interest in many…
Britain
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75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
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March’s Bookshop of the Month – Lindum Books
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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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75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
Read More -
March’s Bookshop of the Month – Lindum Books
Read More -
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
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…
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 Ray is the buyer and seller…
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 as delightful as last year, as…
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 history heavyweights, and the moment Kenneth Clark…
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. Cronin gives an American take on…
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 Matt Stevens, editor of the Library’s…
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 the Western world and ends with…
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 involvement in the Afghanistan war. With…
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 of providing an up-to-date portable guide…
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 state. The author of Against War…