Yale's Ancient Lives Series
A new title in another Yale series brings is an aposite moment to publicise one of Yale’s other important history publications - The Ancient Lives Series....
Cromwell Volume 2 Announced
The second of Ronald Hutton’s trilogy of biographies of Oliver Cromwell has made its way to Yale’s online inventory. ‘Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief’...
Henry III paperback for September 2024
The second volume of David Carpenter’s Yale biography of Henry III will be published in paperback in September 2024. Yale has also released the cover...
New Don Hollway title
Don Hollway continues his exploration of early English history with his new book on the seven decades leading up to the Norman invasion in 1066. A great...
Women at war
The 20th Century is beyond the scope of the English Monarchs series, but a new Yale book requires attention in these pages. "Women in Intelligence: The...
The Hundred Years War (again)
This week sees the release of the much-awaited concluding volume of Jonathan Sumption’s epic five-volume work The Hundred Years War. Volume 5, 'Triumph...
Getting it off your chest
The Times book of the year in 2001 was ‘The River Kings’ by Cat Jarman. Her speciality is to examine the historical record as a bioarchaeologist using...
Holland on Rome
A new book by Tom Holland has been published this month. ‘Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age’ looks at the age of great expansion for Rome in the...
Elizabeth I for 2025
Yale University Press has altered the date for the Simon Adams Elizabeth I English Monarchs book to April 2025. The date has slipped back six months...
Henry III, Carpenter 2
This week Yale is releasing the second volume in Professor David Carpenter’s epic biography of king Henry III. This book covers the period 1258 to 1272,...
The Revolting 17th Century
Bloomsbury Publising has released a new title looking at the turbulent and violent Seventeenth Century written by University of Oxford educator and researcher...
Henrietta Maria
Continuing with recent biographies of well-known women in English history, a recent biography by Leanda de Lisle of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles...
New Tracy Borman Book
Tracy Borman, novelist and historian, has a new book to be released soon by Hodder and Stoughton. ‘Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: the Mother and Daughter...
The Hundred Years War ends
Faber and Faber publishers have announced the release date of the fifth and final book in Jonathan Sumption’s five volume series The Hundred Years War....
Armada 2 (Spain nil)
This month Yale has published a completely revised edition of Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker’s study of the Spanish Armada. This work was first published...
Two houses, two kingdoms, two centuries
Yale recently released a new title by Catherine Hanley, the author of two books related to the English Monarchs series - her biographies of Matilda and...
Henry III Volume 2 cover and release dates
The second volume of David Carpenter’s epic English Monarchs series biography of Henry III will be released in hardback in the middle of 2023. The book...
Richard of Cornwall biography
Darren Baker’s Richard of Cornwall biography has been released in Britain, but North American Book vendors are reporing a revised release date of 15...
Walter Mauny biography
Amberley Publishing has released the first ever biography of Walter Mauny, an important knight and a key figure in the reign of Edward III. Mauny is...
Richard III exhibition in London
The Wallace Collection, at Manchester Square in London, opens its Richard III exhibition next week on 7 September. The webpage for the exhibition says...
Michael Wood's new Dark Ages
BBC Book is publishing this week a competely revised and re-written version of ‘In Search of the Dark Ages’ by Michael Wood. The author’s landmark TV...
Cromwell part 1 in paperback
Yale has posted a publication date of the paperback version of Volume 1 of ‘The Making of Oliver Cromwell’ by Professor Ronald Hutton. The book will...
Wolfson History Prize 2022 Shortlist
The 2002 Wolfson History Prize shortlist has been announced and among all the excellenct half-a-dozen titles is one which will be of direct interest...
Edmund of Cornwall biography
Amberley Publishing has released 'Edmund of Cornwall: the Man behind England’s Greatest King' by Michael Ray, ISBN 9781399093545. Edmund was close to...
New Model Army - new edition
The latest in a run of new titles from Yale has been released: The New Model Army: agent of revolution’ by Ian Gentles (Distinguished Professor in History...
Yale's new Georgian book
The run of new history books continues and better still, another one from Yale. January saw the publication of ‘The Georgians: the deeds and misdeeds...
Elizabeth Stuart
Another new book of note in recent weeks is 'Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts' by Nadine Akkerman (Reader in early modern English Literature at Leiden...
Normans book from Yale
This week Yale published a significant new book on the Normans called 'The Normans: Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe' by Judith A....
New George V biography
George V is a rare subject for biography, and the advent of a new book on this king deserves a mention in the news pages. The author of this new study...
Striking Gold
An unusual post this time yet of high relevance to readers of David Carpenter’s recent biography of Henry III. The British press is reporting the finding...
A fine Burgundy
In the classic 1949 Ealing Films comedy Passport to Pimlico, a charter of Edward IV is discovered which ceded a house and its estate to the Duke of Burgundy....
Cromwell biography now three volumes
In a new podcast appearance this week the author of Yale’s new biography of Oliver Cromwell, Professor Ronald Hutton, has mentioned that this study will...
Trading Places
A new history of the development of English trade in the 16th and 17th Centuries was released by Yale in September. It is not a political biography in...
Edward the Confessor paperback
This week Yale has published the paperback version of the Tom Licence Edward the Confessor, a year after the hardback was released. This brings the paperback...
Harald Hardrada biography
‘The Last Viking: the True Story of King Harald Hardrada’ by Dan Holloway has been released this month by Osprey Publishing. It should provide rich reading...
Brunanburh Book
Readers of this site are likely to know of the Battle Brunanburh in 937. It’s a name that elicits blank stares for those who don’t read history but in...
Oliver Cromwell biography by Yale
An important new Yale biography has been published this month, and it’s a companion to the English Monarchs Series: The Making of Oliver Cromwell’ by...
Thomas Becket Exhibition
Those of you in or near London in the next two weeks have an opportunity to see the Thomas Becket exhibition at the British Museum. This exhibition,...
New John of Gaunt biography
A new biography of John of Gaunt was published in April by Oneworld Publications and written by Helen Carr called ‘The Red Prince: the Life of John of...
Morris major
Readers looking for an account the period between Rome’s withdrawl from Britain and the end of the Anglo-Saxon kings might find the answer in a new book...
New date for Elizabeth I
Yale has posted a new date for the publication of the Simon Adams biography of Elizabeth I. The book will now be released in October 2024. Although this...
New history podcast
Early Modern history readers will enjoy a new history podcast by professor of history and media presenter Susannah Lipscomb. The podcast is called Not...
Edward the Confessor in paperback
Yale has announced that the 2020 hardback release 'Edward the Confessor' by Tom Licence is due for release in paperback in October 2021. The book as...
Anne Boleyn in literature
Tudor specialists will be interested in a new view of Anne Boleyn. Not history, historiography or fiction but a study of the blend of all, a new book...
London
A popular approach in historical biography is writing about a city as an organism and a flucrum for events. English history readers would already be...
Henry III released in paperback
David Carpenter’s landmark English Monarchs biography Henry III has been released in paperback today. As has been observed on the Henry III page in this...
Mary Queen of Scots with Kate Williams
Continuing with an early modern history theme in the news page is a reminder that Tudor historian and media presenter Kate Williams (Professor of Public...
Stuart Exiles
A new book published in October by Cambridge University Press explores a neglected aspect of the post-Restoration period; The English Republican Exiles...
Anne Boleyn TV documentary
A new series for Channel 5 made by Lion Television has screened in the UK. ‘Anne Boleyn: Arrest, Trial, Execution’ is as the title might suggest a three-part...
White Ship 900th Anniversary
Today is the 900th anniversary of the sinking of the White Ship off the coast of Barfleur. An earlier news post noted the publication of the new history...
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