Today is the official publication day for my new book, Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art. It is out in the world, and I would like to thank @yalepress.bsky.social for all they did. I’d also like to tell you a bit about why this publication means so much.

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨 Kingship changed under Offa of Mercia 👑 @rorynaismith.bsky.social explains how it shaped England’s future 🏰 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/3fa95f 🎟️ Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

Enjoyed this week’s special? 🎧 Support the author and the show by grabbing Offa: King of the Mercians by @rorynaismith.bsky.social via the History Rage Bookshop! 📚 📖 Order: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... 🎧 Listen: pod.fo/e/3fa95f #History #Podcast #AngloSaxon #Medieval @yalebooks.bsky.social

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨 Not all power is forced ⚔️ Some rulers chose Offa of Mercia 👑 @rorynaismith.bsky.social explains why 👇 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/3fa95f 🎟️ Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

NEW: The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans & the End of the Slave Trade by Jake Subryan Richards @lsehy.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social "arrives at a critical moment, offering an important intervention in the historiography of abolition & its aftermath," writes Yusuf Abdullahi in his #review.

🚨FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨 Offa's Dyke wasn’t just a ditch 😳 It was a massive statement of power 🏗️ @rorynaismith.bsky.social explains 👇 🎧Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/3fa95f 🎟️ Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

In this extract from How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons, Nicholas J. Higham introduces his account of how, as Roman Britain ended, Anglo-Saxon England emerged. yalebooks.co.uk/how-anglo-sa... #skystorians #medievalsky

In the year the United States will be one of the hosts of the football World Cup, this extract from 'The Return of Russia' looks at the time Putin passed the ball to Trump. It was published by @yalebooks.bsky.social on the day I was speaking at #BASEES2026. Thanks to everyone who came along

🚨FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨 You’ve been sold the wrong version of Offa 🤯 @rorynaismith.bsky.social reveals a far more complex king 🏰 🎧 pod.fo/e/3fa95f 🎟️ Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

If you are at #BASEES2026 today @jmacrodgers.bsky.social will be discussing The Return of Russia with @stefwolff.bsky.social and Bettina Renz. 4.45pm Muirhead Tower 112: www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...

In The Return of Russia, @jmacrodgers.bsky.social charts Russia’s return to prominence on the world stage. This extract explores one of the most visible expressions of that ambition: the use of the World Cup, as a platform for power, prestige, and political messaging. yalebooks.co.uk/how-putin-us...

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨 Think you know Offa of Mercia? 🤯 @rorynaismith.bsky.social reveals the real story behind the myths 🏰 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/3fa95f 🎟️ Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

🚨 COMING TOMORROW🚨 Was Offa of Mercia really the villain we’re told? ⚔️ @rorynaismith.bsky.social digs deeper 👇 🎟️ Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

Wednesday 15 April, at the Boston Room in Chiswick, west London, I will be talking about my book 'The Return of Russia' new from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It's a political history of Russia and its relations with the West since 1991. All welcome! Details below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-return...

In this extract from How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons, Nicholas J. Higham introduces his account of how, as Roman Britain ended, Anglo-Saxon England emerged. yalebooks.co.uk/how-anglo-sa... #skystorians #medievalsky

We're at the @forarthistory.org.uk conference again today! Visit our stand at the book fair to say hello, browse our recent titles, and make the most of our conference offers.

I wish that I had this when I first started working w/ manuscripts! @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

Thrilled to see my book on Empathy in Politics & Leadership among the recommended reading for #MSC2026 With politics feeling bleak, it offers pragmatic hope & practical steps for how we can all make a difference @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social Thank you @munsecconf.bsky.social 📚

We will be at the Reformation Studies Colloquium at UCL later this month. Our online offer is is now live - get 30% off selected books with free postage in the UK (some restrictions apply): yalebooks.co.uk/reformation-... #reformazing #earlymodern #skystorians

Video of my BWS conversation with Anthony Gottlieb, about his insightful new biography of Wittgenstein. Filmed at @yalebooks.bsky.social.* britishwittgensteinsociety.org/a-conversati... *I’ve been informed that the sound is a little faint for the first few minutes but improves thereafter.

April 15th, Chiswick, west London. I will be in conversation with Nanette van der Laan about 'The Return of Russia' new from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Details and tickets below. I will be signing copies afterwards. All welcome. Please come along if you can. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-return...

Between the 12th and 15th centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe. Aleksander Pluskowski, author of The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades, shares some photographs from the region. yalebooks.co.uk/the-baltic-c...

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨 Even in defeat, unity mattered. ✊ Geoff Andrews on the power of solidarity in 1926. ⚒️ 🎧 Listen : pod.fo/e/3c06f8 🎤 17 April @ Gloucester History Festival 🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

🚨 SPECIAL EPISODE🚨 Who really escalated 1926? 🤔 Geoff Andrews busts the myth behind the General Strike. 👀 🎧 Listen : pod.fo/e/3c06f8 🎤 17 April @ Gloucester History Festival 🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨 Labour wasn’t born socialist. 👀 Geoff Andrews reveals its real origins. 🗳️ 🎤 17 April @ Gloucester History Festival 🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor... 🎧 linktr.ee/historyrage #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

In this blog, historians Ryan Hanley and Jake Subryan Richards discuss historical archives, the unstoppable lives of survivors within them, and the act of remembering through the archives. 🔗 Read the full dialogue between the two historians: www.antislavery.org/latest/un-in...

🚨 BONUS EPISODE 🚨 General Strike really chaos? 🤔 Geoff Andrews flips the narrative with a story of discipline and principle. ⚒️ 🎧 Listen : pod.fo/e/3c06f8 🎤 17 April @ Gloucester History Festival 🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

🚨 BONUS SPECIAL🚨 The working class weren’t extremists—they built modern Britain. ⚒️ Geoff Andrews tells the real story. 🎧 Listen : pod.fo/e/3c06f8 🎤 17 April @ Gloucester History Festival 🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

This timeline traces the development of nuclear weapons from early scientific discoveries to their central role in global politics. Based on David Holloway’s Nuclear Weapons: An International History (out now): yalebooks.co.uk/the-history-... #HistIR @armscontrolnow.bsky.social @thebulletin.org

Think you know the story of 1066? New UEA research insights says otherwise... Prof Tom Licence has uncovered that King Harold’s famous 200‑mile march to the Battle of Hastings never happened and was the result of a Victorian mistranslation. 📜 #HistoryNews #ResearchMatters

Tomorrow, March 26th, 26 years since Vladimir Putin's first Russian presidential election win, I will be talking about my book 'The Return of Russia' new from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Still some (free) places left. Details below. In London? please come along! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

This timeline traces the development of nuclear weapons from early scientific discoveries to their central role in global politics. Based on David Holloway’s Nuclear Weapons: An International History (out now): yalebooks.co.uk/the-history-... #HistIR @armscontrolnow.bsky.social @thebulletin.org

Are you in London tomorrow evening? Then please join @lucyaash.bsky.social and me @gowerst-books.bsky.social where we will be discussing my new book, 'The Return of Russia', just published by @yalebooks.bsky.social . Everyone welcome! Details of tickets below

Excited to reveal the cover for my new book ‘William Morris & His Gardens’ Published by Yale University Press @yalebooks.bsky.social on 13th October 2026. Isn’t she beautiful! Thank you to the great team at Yale, and the magic beings around me. #willliammorris #gardenhistory

For Women’s History Month, we are sharing free chapters from books that uncover women’s contributions to history. yalebooks.co.uk/a-reading-li... #whm #womenshistorymonth #skystorians

Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put to his head in April 1945. In this timeline, @carolinesharples.bsky.social explores why Hitler’s death was only confirmed in 2018. yalebooks.co.uk/the-long-dea... #skystorians

We are thrilled that @yalebooks.bsky.social will be coming back to the #IMC2026 Bookfair 🎊 Make sure to visit their stand in the Parkinson Court during IMC week, and visit yalebooks.co.uk to see what titles they have! 😃 www.facebook.com/yalebooks www.instagram.com/yalebooks_hi... #MedievalSky

The Return of Russia? Join us on Tuesday 24th March for @jmacrodgers.bsky.social in conversation with @lucyaash.bsky.social details here: www.waterstones.com/events/searc... @yalebooks.bsky.social #Russia

Enjoyed this week’s Patreon episode? 🎧✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "The Black Cross” by Aleks Pluskowski through the Bookshop! 📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... 🎧 Listen now 👉 www.patreon.com/post... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

I wrote about why we have a new LORD OF THE FLIES adaptation for 2026, & what that says about our attitudes to childhood! #booksky #sff

Available now! 'Gwen John: Strange Beauties' brings new scholarly attention to the Welsh painter with a singular vision of female interior life. Published by the Yale Center for British Art in association with Amgueddfa Cymru–National Museum Wales/Distributed by Yale University Press

@lauratisdall.bsky.social examines the enduring interest of William Golding's Lord of the Flies. What is it about this story of a group of English schoolboys stranded on a desert island whose proto-society descends into violence that attracts such perennial interest? yalebooks.co.uk/lord-of-the-...

Between the 12th and 15th centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe. Aleksander Pluskowski, author of The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades, shares some photographs from the region. yalebooks.co.uk/the-baltic-c...

🚨 THIS WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS 🚨 Think the Crusades were only about Jerusalem? Think again ⚔️🌍 Aleks Pluskowski reveals how crusading reshaped Northern and Eastern Europe — and why we’ve forgotten it. 🎧 Listen now 👉 www.patreon.com/historyrage #Crusades #History #Podcast #Medieval

Publication day! 🥳 #TheLongDeathOfAdolfHitler is officially out now! Thank you so much to the amazing team @yalebooks.bsky.social for making this possible, to everyone who has read drafts & offered feedback along the way, and to all those who are currently buying/reading it!

COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It’s a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...