The Story of Robert Burns
Murray Pittock’s Scotland is an engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years War to…
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Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
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Why I Became an X Troop Commando
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Six People Who Shaped Madrid
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Art of the Grimoire: 7 Spell Books Through History
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What Stories Do Old Towns Tell?
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A Dickensland Extract: The Haunted Bridge
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75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
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In Search of the River Jordan
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What is ‘Liveliness’ in Tudor art? By Dr Christina Faraday
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Tracking Down Eighteenth-Century Optimists and Pessimists – By Penelope J. Corfield
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Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
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Why I Became an X Troop Commando
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Six People Who Shaped Madrid
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Art of the Grimoire: 7 Spell Books Through History
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What Stories Do Old Towns Tell?
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A Dickensland Extract: The Haunted Bridge
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75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
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In Search of the River Jordan
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What is ‘Liveliness’ in Tudor art? By Dr Christina Faraday
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Tracking Down Eighteenth-Century Optimists and Pessimists – By Penelope J. Corfield
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Crassus: The First Tycoon
In this original piece, Peter Stothard, author of Crassus: The First Tycoon, discusses the metallic greed of Marcus Licinius Crassus (115–53 BCE), Rome’s richest…
The Story of Auld Lang Syne
Murray Pittock’s Scotland is an engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years…
The Origins of Christmas Carols
In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical music canon at a moment when we can access all…
2022 Gift Guide: History Books
This selection of history books will make a great gift to gain expert knowledge, no matter which areas of history they are interested in!
2022 Gift Guide: Art Books
This vibrant selection of art books make a great gift, for yourself or for the art lovers in your life!
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…
The Story of Tutankhamun by Garry Shaw: An extract
A lively new portrait of Tutankhamun—published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb’s modern discovery The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations…
Everything Black – an extract from ‘Black Dignity’ by Vincent W. Lloyd
Why Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy Black Dignity: The Struggle against…
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms by Catherine Hanley: an extract
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms is an exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary…
Staff Pick: Medieval History
This month, Yale University Press London staff voted for their favourite book on the theme of ‘Medieval History‘. Find out which books they recommended…
A Visual History of Household Servants and Slaves
In this blog, Yale author Diane Wolfthal brings the visual representation of household workers in medieval and early-modern Europe to the fore. Using examples…
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…
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…
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia – An Extract
In recent years, it has been impossible to ignore the resurgence of xenophobia. Issues like the European migrant catastrophe and the crisis over the…