Contemporary British Artists: Tony Cragg exhibition opens today
In the next instalment in our series looking at contemporary British artists and accompanying Yale books, we take a look at the life and work of visual artist and sculptor Tony Cragg, whose exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern art opens today. Tony Cragg is one of today’s most celebrated and popular sculptors. … Read more
Tales from the Pleasure Garden: New book from Yale unearths Vauxhall Gardens
Vauxhall Gardens was the foremost pleasure garden of eighteenth and nineteenth-century London. The recently published Vauxhall Gardens: A History by David E. Coke and Alan Borg unearths this forgotten gem of London’s history, revealing the teeming life, the spectacular art and the ever-present music of Vauxhall in fascinating detail. Visiting Vauxhall today – with its urban sprawl of modern … Read more
The Future of History: Books by the eminent historian John Lukacs
Students of history will know John Lukacs, after all he has written more than thirty books on the topic, including the critically acclaimed Five Days in London and A New Republic. In his new book The Future of History the master historian explores the literary art of history and the future of teaching, researching, and writing about the past. … Read more
Amanda Vickery returns to Radio 4 for Series Two of ‘Voices from the Old Bailey’
Author and broadcaster Amanda Vickery returns to Radio 4 for the second series of the acclaimed ‘Voices from the Old Bailey’. Starting today at 9am (repeated again tonight at 9.30pm), Amanda Vickery, whose Yale book Behind Closed Doors was adapted for TV last year, presents dramatised extracts from gripping Old Bailey court cases from the 18th century and discusses with … Read more
Author article by Lyric Hale: News of the World – Why too much information is helping us make bad decisions
Last week leading economic commentator and What’s Next? author Lyric Hale discussed the potential economic fallout caused by a natural disaster in Iran. This week she discusses the evolving state of global news, and why the ever-growing influence of social media can lead to greater participation, but also greater confusion. Article by Lyric Hughes Hale “Is something going on … Read more
