I shared some thoughts on Putin, the war, and history for this article on the #RussiaUkraineWar in 2026. The piece also mentions my next book, 'The Return of Russia' out later this month from @yalebooks.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

Sat sold out and Sun just a few tix remain - grab em in advance! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/damon...

Happy new year everyone! If you are looking for something to read in 2026, The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History is now available in paperback. @yalebooks.bsky.social ‬

Join Damon & Naomi, Stewart Lee and Gina Birch to celebrate the launch of @dadadrummer.bsky.social's new book, Why Sound Matters. Monday 5th January, 7.30pm, @cafeotodalston.bsky.social Tickets: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/damon... “[Why Sound Matters] It’s a modern masterpiece.”—Jarvis Cocker

Some Christmas Eve reading for fans of our Pevsner Guides series! ☕ 📰 In this article, Simon Bradley reflects on the impact of Ian Nairn's architectural writing - and his contributions to the Pevsner Guides: yalebooks.co.uk/ian-nairn-pe...

Join Damon & Naomi, Stewart Lee and Gina Birch to celebrate the launch of @dadadrummer.bsky.social's new book, Why Sound Matters. Monday 5th January, 7.30pm, @cafeotodalston.bsky.social Tickets: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/damon... “[Why Sound Matters] It’s a modern masterpiece.”—Jarvis Cocker

Don’t miss this free @yalebooks.bsky.social Little History event @blackwelloxford.bsky.social

New Medieval Books: Assassins and Templars, by Steve Tibble published by @yalebooks.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/12/new-... #historybooks #MiddleAges

On the third night of our upcoming run @cafeotodalston.bsky.social, Naomi and I will play a set but there will also be a conversation about my new book with a couple of amazing interlocutors

If it’s a Corfield production, you know it’s gonna be good! 🗃️

Watch @drkatevigurs.bsky.social on Open Book with @scaramucci.bsky.social - The FORGOTTEN STORIES of WWII's BRAVEST SPIES www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmxd...

Join Damon & Naomi, Stewart Lee and Gina Birch to celebrate the launch of @dadadrummer.bsky.social's new book, Why Sound Matters. Monday 5th January, 7.30pm, Cafe Oto, Dalston. Tickets: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/damon... “[Why Sound Matters] It’s a modern masterpiece.”—Jarvis Cocker

It was a real pleasure to join Alexander Evans OBE at the @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social in mid-October to discuss the themes of my new book ‘Empathy in Politics and Leadership’ (@yalebooks.bsky.social and @yalepress.bsky.social) #Empathy #Politics #Books youtu.be/BIchOmhWDGs?...

Penelope J. Corfield takes us through some of the Georgian origins and innovations in familiar festive traditions. How were these traditions formed by their Christmases past? And how did they help form Christmases future? yalebooks.co.uk/how-the-geor... #c18th #georgians #skystorians

The Georgian era was a time of innovations. But, what does it mean to track down and explore the views of eighteenth-century optimists and pessimists? And how did the Georgians view themselves? Penelope J. Corfield explores this. #c18th #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/eighteenthce...

Join Damon & Naomi, Stewart Lee and Gina Birch to celebrate the launch of @dadadrummer.bsky.social's new book, Why Sound Matters. Monday 5th January, 7.30pm, Cafe Oto, Dalston. Tickets: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/damon... “[Why Sound Matters] It’s a modern masterpiece.”—Jarvis Cocker

250 years ago, on 16 December 1775, Jane Austen was born in Hampshire. Fiona Stafford explores her legacy in this expanded extract from Jane Austen: A Brief Life. #Austen250 #JaneAusten250 #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/jane-austen-...

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.

Jane Austen mentions Christmas in all of her novels - spent with family & friends, stoking ‘a roaring Christmas fire’ against the snow outside, and making merry with dancing. Hilary Davidson (@fourredshoes.bsky.social) introduces a fashion-focused Austen Christmas. yalebooks.co.uk/a-jane-auste...

Lee Jackson (@victorianlondon.bsky.social) explores how the filmmakers of A Muppet Christmas Carol recreate a fictionalised version of Dickensian London to connect with and delight their contemporary audiences. yalebooks.co.uk/dickensian-l... #victorianstudies #history

In this extract from Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm, Katherine Carter discusses what Christmas at Chartwell was like for the Churchills and staff. yalebooks.co.uk/christmas-at... #SecondWorldWar #skystorians

Thanks so much for including Religion in the Lands That Became America! @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social @patheos.com www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

Video of my Barnes Philosophy Club talk, previewing some ideas from my forthcoming book for @yalebooks.bsky.social, How to Understand Others From Locke to Wittgenstein: How to Understand Others without Mindreading | Constantine Sandis www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO8U... #Wittgenstein #Locke

In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical music canon across time and cultures. In this extract, Kenyon charts the development of the carol, and their enduring association with Christmas. yalebooks.co.uk/the-origins-... #music #history #skystorians

😀Meet @edithmayhall.bsky.social with #EpicoftheEarth @yalebooks.bsky.social in May www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

In this extract from Going to Church in Medieval England, Nicholas Orme discusses the customs, feasts and ceremonies that occurred in church during Advent and Christmas in medieval England. yalebooks.co.uk/christmas-in... #skystorians #medievalsky

Had a ball at @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social prize celebrations last night. Great to meet @kieranconnell.bsky.social @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social & other luminaries. I said to my partner ‘everyone in the History World was there’ & he thought I said ‘everyone in the History of the World’ - v crowded!

Congratulations once again to this year's brilliant shortlisted authors: Eleanor Barraclough, @kieranconnell.bsky.social, @victoriandetective.bsky.social, Helen Castor, Hannah Durkin and Andrew Fleming.

Clive Aslet welcomes us in to sit by a warm hearth as he gives a brief history of the Christmas traditions enjoyed (or not enjoyed…) by the residents of stately homes, grand manors and royal courts. yalebooks.co.uk/christmas-at... #history

This evening, the winner of the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 will be announced live! Join us in celebrating outstanding history. We will be posting live from the winner ceremony, so make sure you're following @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social and #WolfsonHistoryPrize for live updates throughout the night.

The #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 winner will be announced tomorrow! Don't forget to let us know which book you would like to see win. Follow tomorrow's live winner announcement on @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social.

#economics An upcoming new #book “Keynes for Our Times” - Prof Robert Skidelsky @yalebooks.bsky.social 26 May 2026 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Final day for 50% off! 👇

Catalina Micaela, younger daughter of Philip II married Carlo I, duke of Savoy at 17 & moved from Madrid's royal court to Turin to begin a new life as a duchess. Little known today, she was nonetheless a key figure in C. 16th Europe. Here are 5 surprising facts: yalebooks.co.uk/5-surprising...

If any bibliophiles out there fancy bankrupting themselves, Yale University Press has a half-price sale this month. yalebooks.co.uk

The T-Rex of Damocles hung over me last night at the launch of @jamie-woodward.bsky.social’s A Little History of the Earth @yalebooks.bsky.social at the Manchester Museum

And part two is here! mathewlyons.substack.com/p/sixteen-bo...

My pick of the history and non-fiction books in November. (With one historical novel too!) Part one is here. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/sixteen-bo...

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

I'm still immensely proud of #Spycraft : Tricks & Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration @yalebooks.bsky.social , the book I wrote with Pete Langman, and grateful to Philippa Gregory for selecting it as the best nonfiction book she read this year! Out in paperback🥳 ✨

A great evening discussing 4.54 billion years of the Earth’s history with @jamie-woodward.bsky.social at Manchester Museum to celebrate the launch of his A Little History of the Earth @yalebooks.bsky.social

ONE WEEK to go until the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 winner is announced! Don't forget to follow the winner announcement on 2 December via @WolfsonHistory.

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

There’s just one week of our @yalebooks.bsky.social half price sale left - must end 30th November!

A GUIDE TO REGENCY DRESS by Hilary Davidson, Yale Books, out now. No one does this kind of gorgeous, informative, meticulously researched, beautifully designed fashion history book better. A fine gift for every Janeite! @fourredshoes.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

SAHGB has conferred the inaugural Colvin Special Award 2025 on the editors of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, recognising their renewal of this landmark series for readers across the British Isles. Full press release on our website. www.sahgb.org.uk/features/col...

Shop our collection of perfect book gifts for History & Art lovers – 50% off + free UK postage! yalebooks.co.uk/9-perfect-bo... Available from yalebooks.co.uk in November, on all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25. Not available N/S America & Australia/NZ

London friends, I'll be speaking about my @yalebooks.bsky.social book in progress on How to Understand Others at the Barnes Philosophy Club (OSO Arts Centre) on Tuesday 25th November @ 19.30. All welcome! www.visitrichmond.co.uk/events/barne...