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Spotted not quite in the wild, but at least on the edge of release! Thank you @yalebooks.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about my new book today & for all your brilliant work during the publishing process. #TheLongDeathOfAdolfHitler is out 10 March! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
At the eve of the Second World War, some 500 Jewish children escaped to France in the Kindertransport. Extracted from Who Will Rescue Us?, Laura Hobson Faure interviews Elfriede Meyer about her journey.
#HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorialDay #skystorians
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1918 poster by Fred Taylor of storks at Kew Gardens, produced by the Underground Railways, for distribution to troops overseas.
The London Mayor's Office recently announced a scheme to reintroduce storks to London.
From 1890 storks formed one of the attractions of Kew Gardens:'their quaint appearance and philosophical habits make them rather in keeping with a botanical garden' (Journal of the Kew Guild, 1902).
Book cover in blue and green for WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN by Laura Tisdall showing a group of children in the 1970s with endorsement quote from Francis Spufford: 'Tisdall gives us extraordinary, privileged access to the inner worlds of a generation'.
Feel free to mute me if you get tired of seeing me talking about my book over the next few months but BEFORE YOU DO, I just wanted to point out that the fantastic Francis Spufford has very kindly said that it 'gives us extraordinary, privileged access to the inner worlds of a generation' 🥂🥂🥂
Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.
Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Colourful cover of 1950 guide book The Romance of Kew: Where Flowers always bloom. Interior of Palm House with red hibiscus and snowy scene outside.
Open-the-flap of cover of guide, The Romance of Kew, reveals summer scene of the pagoda.
Charming open-the-flap cover of 1950 guide to Kew.
The wintery scene in the Palm House transforms to summer and a view of the Pagoda when the door opens. Truly, a garden for all seasons!
Three rake-wielding dancing gardeners. A hand coloured stencil illustration by Edward Bawden from Robert Herring's Adam and Evelyn at Kew (1930)
If anyone needs cheering up, here are three jolly dancing gardeners.
Edward Bawden's illustration from Robert Herring's wonderful Adam and Evelyn at Kew (1930).
John Carey
We are incredibly sad to learn of the death of John Carey, whose last three books we were proud to publish at Yale. One of our greatest literary critics, John was a strong advocate for poetry and making it accessible. He was diligent and superb at what he did, but always with a sense of fun.
Thanks for this lovely tribute to the great John Carey, he meant so much to so many of us.
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
A lovely tribute to the brilliant John Carey, whose work I return to again and again and again.
The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar resumes on 14 January 2026, in person at the Institute of Historical Research and online via Zoom. (Kate Gibson, speaking on Fostering in 18th-century Britain).
Access next term's programme here. All welcome: free and open to the public.
Images © Alan Raymond Palmer
Images © Alan Raymond Palmer
⚠️ Stand-off in Sheringham: Local campaigners have spent the past three nights camping out overnight in an extraordinary bid to save a 1950s Streamline Moderne style bus shelter in Norfolk, thwarting council contractors who attempted to demolish the structure at 2am.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
There’s just one week of our @yalebooks.bsky.social half price sale left - must end 30th November!
‘Brilliant… A kind of shadow biography of Shakespeare from the bottom up’ - Wonderful review of Daniel Swift’s superb The Dream Factory www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
There is still time to get your ticket for Mike Jay's talk tonight 👇
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Thrilled to see Ruthless reviewed in the FT by Linda Colley, and to be placed among the FT's books of the week too! 😊
www.ft.com/content/67c1...
In the lead up to the #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner announcement next month, we are shining a light on each of the shortlisted books.
This week, Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight @yalebooks.bsky.social.
Looking forward to spending an evening with the brilliant Jake Subryan Richards on 11 November at Waterstones on Gower Street to talk about our new books!
www.waterstones.com/events/ruthl...
Join @edmond-smith.bsky.social and Jake Richards discussing their books Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800 and The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade
6.30pm, 11th Nov, Waterstones Gower Street
www.waterstones.com/events/ruthl...
b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it
It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance
In celebration of @victoriandetective.bsky.social’s book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective being shortlisted for the @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social 2025, we’re revisiting some of our prize-winning and shortlisted books — with an extract from each.
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Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.
The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social
‘One of the most superbly beautiful of trees ... worth crossing the globe to see’.
For more on thawka-gyi or 'Pride of Burma', see the latest issue of Plant Perspectives. Open access:
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
The V&A East Storehouse is full of stunning surprises like this complete office that Frank Lloyd Wright created for Pittsburgh retail magnate Edgar J Kaufmann in 1935-1937 (THREAD)
Book cover of Ruthless by Edmond Smith, published by Yale University Press
Five endorsements for Ruthless praising its research, originality, and vivid writing, from Sathnam Sanghera, Emma Griffin, William Pettigrew, Anton Howes, and Nicholas Radburn (1/2)
Five endorsements for Ruthless praising its research, originality, and vivid writing, from Sathnam Sanghera, Emma Griffin, William Pettigrew, Anton Howes, and Nicholas Radburn (2/2)
Thrilled to share early endorsements for #Ruthless!
Huge thanks to @sathnam.bsky.social, Emma Griffin, @antonhowes.bsky.social, William Pettigrew, and Nicholas Radburn for their generous words.
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Gourock Lido, Inverdale, Scotland, 2004, by Martin Parr, whose latest book - “Utterly Lazy And Inattentive” - is a wonder.
As the 19th century opened, Britain faced an existential crisis. Just a short distance away Napoleon's army gathered on the Channel coast. The terror of that historical moment was very real – Andrew Lambert investigates how British politicians spent the next century ensuring it was never felt again👇
