For Pride Month 2024 we are sharing a series of extracts from our books which look at the... The post Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners – an extract from Backbone of the Nation appeared f...
If you want to find out more about the real Ton, marriage mart and social world that inspired... The post A Georgian and Regency Reading List appeared first on Yale University Press London Blo...
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Nicholas Orme’s The History of England’s Cathedrals is the first history of the life and activities of all... The post England’s Cathedrals: A Timeline — by Nicholas Orme appeared firs...
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Eamon Duffy’s landmark account of the pre-Reformation church in England was first published in 1992. The Stripping of... The post The Stripping of the Altars – 50 Years in 50 Books appeare...
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The Gardens of the British Working Classes is an illustrated people’s history of gardening in Britain. Margaret Willes’s... The post The Gardens of the British Working Class – 50 Years in...
Britons was first published in 1992. In Britons, Linda Colley examines how a more cohesive British nation was... The post Britons – 50 Years in 50 Books appeared first on Yale University Pre...
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Winner of the 1999 Wolfson History Prize, The Gentleman’s Daughter invokes women’s own accounts of their intimate and... The post The Gentleman’s Daughter – 50 Years in 50 Books appear...
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In The Georgians, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life – politics and empire, culture and... The post How the Georgians Celebrated Christmas – by Penelope J. Corfield...
Tourists have reimagined and reinvented the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Dickens’s London for more than 150 years.... The post A Muppet Christmas Carol – by Lee Jackson appeared first...
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2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s first folio, without which many of his works... The post An extract from ‘Shakespeare in Bloomsbury’ by Marjorie Garbe...
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