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We're very proud to announce the winner of this year's prize: Edith Hall's compelling & insightful 'Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me' (Yale UP). A brilliant, moving book for experts & general readers alike - congratulations @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social!
04.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
We are all set up for History Day 25!
You can pick up a FREE BOOK from our stand if you sign up to our monthly history email update.
We are on the ground floor - stand B11.
Come and say hello!
@ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social #HistDay25
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...
Our extraordinary winter offer is live - get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage!
Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in November
Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25
Not available N/S America & Australia/NZ
#booksale #universitypress
Our extraordinary winter offer is live - get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage!
Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in November
Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25
Not available N/S America & Australia/NZ
#booksale #universitypress
Have you enjoyed our bonus episode? 🎧✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "The White Lady" by Helen Fry through the History Rage Bookshop!
🎧 Catch the episode 👉 pod.fo/e/345753
📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...
#History #podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social
Haunting Histories: The 9 Best Books to Read This Halloween
From vampires and witches to curses and spells, get in the spirit this Halloween with a selection of Yale history titles dedicated to magic and the mystic.
yalebooks.co.uk/haunting-his...
#halloween #SpookySeason #HalloweenHistory
My pick of history and non-fiction books for October, featuring slave rebellions, the Weimar Republic, elves and fairies, espionage in the two world wars, snow, graveyards and more!
31.10.2025 09:25 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
Haunting Histories: The 9 Best Books to Read This Halloween
From vampires and witches to curses and spells, get in the spirit this Halloween with a selection of Yale history titles dedicated to magic and the mystic.
yalebooks.co.uk/haunting-his...
#halloween #SpookySeason #HalloweenHistory
How did elves and fairies become a firmly established part of Western popular culture?
Matthias Egeler, author of Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, introduces and explores these mythical creatures.
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#folklore #folklorethursday
How did elves and fairies become a firmly established part of Western popular culture?
Matthias Egeler, author of Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, introduces and explores these mythical creatures.
yalebooks.co.uk/cute-cruelty...
#folklore #folklorethursday
Come for an evening to learn more about history at Waterstones Gower Street, I'll be attending too!
29.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join Jake Richards to discuss his new book, The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade.
6-8pm, 30th Oct, @c19qmul.bsky.social:
🚨 BOOK LAUNCH 🚨
Belgium’s agents weren’t just brave — they were brilliant.
Helen Fry uncovers MI6-backed spy networks that fed 70% of Britain’s WWI intel & warned of WWII.
🎧 pod.fo/e/345753
📖 uk.bookshop.org/a/10...
#WWII #WWI #Espionage #SpyStories #Belgium @yalebooks.bsky.social
Join Jake Richards to discuss his new book, The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade.
6-8pm, 30th Oct, @c19qmul.bsky.social:
Explore this reading list of ten Yale books for Black History Month 2025 featuring books on Britain’s first black Olympic medal winner, the first and last king of Haiti, Regency London’s most famous street performer and more.
yalebooks.co.uk/black-histor...
#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #bhmuk
Join Dr Jake Subryan Richards on the 22nd of October at Heffers Bookshop where he will discusses his new book 'The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade' with Prof. Nicholas Guyatt
Weds October 22nd, 6-7:30pm, Heffers Cambridge
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bonds-...
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...
Episode 6: WHY SOUND MATTERS w/ Damon Krukowski @dadadrummer.bsky.social is now available on all platforms besides the Swedish one. We are done calling GenAI music slop, from here on out we’re calling it BIOHAZARDOUS SONIC WASTE PRODUCT. ☣️ 🔊 ☣️ 🔊 ☣️ 🔊 ☣️ 🔊
20.10.2025 14:09 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Amazing experience to bring Dr Bot to Cheltenham Festival on stage with technology journalist Lara Lewington + chaired by the BBC's Claudia Hammond. Great discussions, and a lively audience.
@yalebooks.bsky.social
When the Assassins Came to Damascus www.medievalists.net/2025/10/when... #history #AssassinsCreed
17.10.2025 11:11 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Live now! ⬇️
16.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tonight at 7pm 👇
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Display of Empathy in Politics and Leadership at Daunt Books Cheapside
Dr Claire York at her book launch for Empathy in Politics and Leadership with her editor and publicist
Heading home from the launch for Empathy in Politics and Leadership by Dr Claire Yorke published by @yalebooks.bsky.social. Fascinating to hear how the book evolved to be not just about leaders and empathy but about our ecosystem for politicians and leaders too
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Bookshop window of Daunt Books Cheapside
A book filled window at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Cheapside including a copy of Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Leo Damrosch which was published by @yalebooks.bsky.social in September
15.10.2025 21:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social reviews 'Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions', by Katlyn Marie Carter
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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Delighted that Nicola Moorby is bringing #TurnerandConstable @yalebooks.bsky.social to the #Cotswolds in May
Sign up for our newsletters to find out about our May 2026 #book events:
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
Join Steve Tibble for an AMA on Reddit tomorrow at 7pm.
Ask him anything about the Templars, Assassins and the crusades:
www.reddit.com/r/history/co...
Last night we hosted the launch of Dr Jake Subryan Richards’ book, “The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade”.
Jake was joined by Prof Larry Kramer (President and Vice Chancellor of the LSE) who chaired the event.
@yalebooks.bsky.social
#book #event #history #LSE
Discount code for 'The Return of Russia' at Waterstones
'A welcome contribution to the debate about what went wrong, coming from someone who has long
observed—and often been present at—key moments in Russian history'--Andrei Soldatov
There's 25% off pre-orders of 'The Return of Russia', my new book with @yalebooks.bsky.social, at Waterstones this week
