Ernest Gimson: Past, Present & Future
Annette Carruthers, Mary Greensted and Barley Roscoe discuss the life and legacy of Ernest Gimson on the 100th…
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Younger Sons of Regency England (Part I) – The Story of Benjamin Smith
In Regency England, the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance,…
A “Pocket” History of Women’s Lives (1660-1900)
Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, thimbles, keys, money, snuff – women and girls carried a startling array of things…
How to Design Beautiful Books – Alex Kirby on Book Design
Don’t judge a book by its cover—or should you? Which books do you navigate towards when entering a…
The Avant-garde and the New Typography
How did Jan Tschichold help to form the New Typography in the early twentieth century? Why were he…
Content Collection | For Art History 2019
This year the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference takes place in Brighton from the 4–6 of April….
How to get noticed by publishers and other questions – A Q&A with Heather McCallum (PART II)
If you are finishing your PhD and considering publication or you are looking a publisher for your monograph…
Why Multilingualism Matters – A Q&A with Marek Kohn
In a world that has global English and translation technology, it’s easy to assume that the need to…
How to get noticed by publishers and other questions – A Q&A with Heather McCallum (Part I)
Is writing more your new year’s resolution? Whether you are finishing up a first draft or going through…
Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
‘Tis the season to be cosy! Winter has arrived and what could be better than curling up with…
Yale History Highlights 2014
Spanning some eleven millennia, the new Yale University Press History Catalogue brings together new and bestselling books that…
Dangerous Books Around the World
Books have always had the power to make authorities rather uncomfortable. Sometimes it’s because the novel makes the…
Genius and Tragedy: The Life of Alan Turing
History is rife with examples of persecuted scientists—think Rhazes, Galileo, and Servetus, for starters—but it would be a…
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt
How could humans have committed all those atrocities that characterised the Holocaust? Were they all monsters and sadists,…
Happy Vesak Day!
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…