Staff Pick: Our Favourite Books of 2021
Happy New Year! Yale University Press, London staff recommend their favourite books of last year. Find out what we chose and why. January’s Staff…
Country Houses
Christmas at the Country House
In this special festive blog, Yale author Clive Aslet welcomes us in to sit by a warm hearth as he gives a brief history…
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 rulers, workers, and inhabitants whose lives…
The Story of Stansted Park
Architecture is about many things – building style, social change, technological advance, but also the human needs and dramas of the people who lived…
Illustrating The Story of the Country House: Q&A with Bethan Scorey
Country houses in the UK date back as far as the medieval period, when England had a population of just a few million and…