Yale University Press London launches its Spring / Summer 2012 Seasonal Catalogue
Yale’s Spring / Summer seasonal catalogue is now available now to order and download. Today we take a quick look at some of the fantastic books available next year. It has been an exciting few months for Yale University Press books, with titles in our current Autumn / Winter 2011 season gaining media attention and … Read more
Winner of Wolfson History Prize 2009: Dance in the Renaissance
Yale is glad to announce Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French Obsession by Margaret M. McGowan has been awarded the prize for this year. The Wolfson History Prizes, which were established in 1972, are awarded annually to promote and encourage standards of excellence in the writing of history for the general public. Prizes are … Read more
Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two
Alan Allport, the author of the forth coming book: Demobbed, will be joining us from tomorrow (18 June 2009), here at the Yale London Blog, to retell the day-by-day British experience of military demobilisation after the Second World War.
Author Eamon Duffy talks about his new book: Fires of Faith
What does Fires of Faith tell us about the consequences of religious brutality? Later generations built the reign of Mary Tudor into a protestant national myth – innocence and truth pursued by popish brutality. I hope the book shows that matters were not quite so simple. A lot of the catholic restoration was won by … Read more
Terry Eagleton – Lacan to marmalade
I became a fan of the literary critic and cultural theorist Terry Eagleton during the last year of my undergraduate degree. Back then, faced with an impenetrable stanza from T.S. Eliot, and harassed by an approaching coursework deadline, I decided to do the unthinkable and enter the library. The next panicked half hour is lost … Read more
