🚨THIS WEEK🚨 Crusades weren’t just a two-faith showdown ⚔️ Professor Aleks Pluskowski unpacks the wider realities of crusading in this History Rage episode — political, European, and far more complex than we’re taught. 🎧 Listen now 👉 pod.fo/e/423d2a #Crusades #Medieval @yalebooks.bsky.social

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 Crusades weren’t random wars ⚔️📜 Professor Aleks Pluskowski explains who authorised them, why they were launched, and how religion and power collided in this History Rage episode. 🎧 Listen now 👉 pod.fo/e/423d2a #History #Podcast #Crusades #Medieval @yalebooks.bsky.social

We have decided to extend our dangerously good sale for one more week! Get 50% off thousands of books until midnight 7th June Shop history highlights: yalebooks.co.uk/may-book-sal... Shop art highlights: yalebooks.co.uk/may-book-sal... Browse and search all books: yalebooks.co.uk/search-resul...

This extract from @profmabon.bsky.social's new book looks at how the conflict that erupted after the 2026 attacks on Iran threatens to reopen many of the same sectarian fractures unleashed by the Iraq War & the Arab uprisings — only now on a far wider regional scale. yalebooks.co.uk/war-sectaria...

How does post-Enlightenment society understand death? Hear from Dr. Joanna Stalnaker on iconic philosophers as they approach their own death on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3qDz...

In this blogpost Alec Ryrie looks at the life of Samson Occom, a Native American preacher, writer and anti-slavery campaigner who used the Protestant faith that educated him to challenge the racism, hypocrisy and broken promises of colonial Christianity. yalebooks.co.uk/samson-occom... #reformazing

We have decided to extend our dangerously good sale for one more week! Get 50% off thousands of books until midnight 7th June Shop history highlights: yalebooks.co.uk/may-book-sal... Shop art highlights: yalebooks.co.uk/may-book-sal... Browse and search all books: yalebooks.co.uk/search-resul...

Thanks everyone who came to Derby Book Festival on Thurs 28, especially to @alentop.bsky.social for chairing. Great audience questions. It was a pleasure to chat afterwards while signing copies of 'The Return of Russia' @yalebooks.bsky.social and proudly wearing my @kyivindependent.com t-shirt.

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @claireturner.bsky.social (@durhamimh.bsky.social)’s review of Evelyn Lord’s book _The Great Plague: When Death Came to Cambridge in 1665_, pub 2023 @yalebooks.bsky.social #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

As if this wasn't dangerous enough in its own right, this offer includes Pevsners.

🎤 Been listening to the draft cut of our documentary 'The King of the Beggars: The Music of Billy Waters' 🎼🎻 Featuring music from 'Jump Billy!' team. Presented by @patersonjoseph.bsky.social . 🎧BBC Radio 3 Sunday June 28th 2026 7.15pm Later on BBC Sounds @efdss.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

In this blogpost Alec Ryrie looks at the life of Samson Occom, a Native American preacher, writer and anti-slavery campaigner who used the Protestant faith that educated him to challenge the racism, hypocrisy and broken promises of colonial Christianity. yalebooks.co.uk/samson-occom... #reformazing

Based in Paris? Join author Simon Morley tomorrow evening to celebrate the publication of his brand new book, La Belle France. 🗓️ Le 27 Mai 2026 de 18h30 à 20h30 📍Librairie Galignani 224, rue de Rivoli, 75001 paris Find out more: www.galignani.fr/agenda-19583...

Get 50% off history books in May with free postage in the UK: yalebooks.co.uk/may-book-sal...

For #NationalYearOfReading2026 we are giving away free eBook copies of @nigelwarburton.bsky.social's A Little History of Philosophy. Get your free eBook here: yalebooks.co.uk/landing-page... #GoAllIn #GoAllIn2026 #NationalYearofReading

Imagine The Mummy meets Knightfall... Let's talk about the Fifth Crusade with Dr Thomas W Smith. His upcoming book is available on pre-order with @yalebooks.bsky.social Tune in shows.acast.com/if-it-aint-b... #crusades

A few magical books I picked up in the @yalebooks.bsky.social sale!

For #NationalYearOfReading2026 we are giving away free eBook copies of @nigelwarburton.bsky.social's A Little History of Philosophy. Get your free eBook here: yalebooks.co.uk/landing-page... #GoAllIn #GoAllIn2026 #NationalYearofReading

I recently bought a new bookshelf to manage the stacks of books around my apartment. It’s already full. And then @yalebooks.bsky.social put so much good work on sale! 50% off!

🍽️✨ What did a Georgian dinner party really look like? 🍷👀 In the 18th century, dinner was designed to impress. Join us for after-hours access to Strawberry Hill House + a talk with Dr Amy Boyington @historywithamy 🏰 🥂 25 June | 6.30pm 🎟️ strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/georgian-feasting

Browsing in Blackheath Bookshop y’day picked up this @yalebooks.bsky.social book & was surprised to see a chapter on the Ace of Spades, then further chuffed to see author had mentioned my @artdecosocuk.bsky.social article about roadhouses in bibliography (+ some Mary Evans pics used which I found)

As I revamp my Ancient & Medieval slavery ⛓️ seminar for the fall, I wanted to note that my fav. book this year so far is Katharine Huemoeller's _The Child Follows the Womb: Gender, Reproduction, and Roman Slavery_ www.jstor.org/stable/jj.37... (access it here or buy through @yalebooks.bsky.social).

Whoop, whoop! 🥳 My book has just been sent to the printers! It also features in @yalebooks.bsky.social's Autumn Catalogue, in some very illustrious company . . . #excited All shares and preorders much appreciated! 🙏 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... #booksky #queer #lgbtq #queerhistory #histsci 🌈📚🗃️

Jeffrey D Means reviews 'The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History', by Ned Blackhawk academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

Shane Bjornlie reviews 'Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans', by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, tr. John Noel Dillon @johnnoeldillon.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

New on my website: details of upcoming live events for my latest book, The Return of Russia, (@yalebooks.bsky.social) beginning at the Derby book festival on Thursday 28 May. Please come along if you can! jamesrodgersauthor.com/new-book-the...

In this blogpost, Daria Santini, author of A Woman Named Edith, traces how Edith Tudor Hart’s life illuminates both the promise and the tragedies of her age. yalebooks.co.uk/the-many-liv...

Ongoing thread, the road to (fully declared, colonies wide) revolution. #AmRev #AmRev250

Nerds, prepare your wallets...

Book sale!

The number of people I follow who are reacting to this sale with terrified alarm/desire is so high that ... that it shows I'm following the right sort of people, come to think of it.

A couple of Kate Vigurs books about women in the SOE in there that @badsquiddogames.bsky.social may not have. Quite the bargain.

Fab day last week with @patersonjoseph.bsky.social recording 'The King of the Beggars: The Music of Billy Waters' 🎼🎻 🎧BBC Radio 3 Sunday June 28th 2026 7.15pm Later on BBC Sounds #billywatersisdancing #blackhistoryisbritishhistory #disabilityhistroy #theatreland #folkies @yalebooks.bsky.social

For my UK 🇬🇧 mutuals

From just the first page. What a bargain for @nickhewitt4.bsky.social fantastic Normandy The Sailors’ Story. Interesting in D-Day? It’s a must read. #histbookchat yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

If you have yet to get your hands on a copy of Spycraft, now is as good a time as you're likely to see ...

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This timeline, taken from George Goodwin’s book, Propaganda Wars of the American Revolution, details events in Congress in Philadelphia as it moves towards approving the Declaration of Independence on 4th July 1776. yalebooks.co.uk/countdown-to... #America250 #USHistory #skystorians

This timeline, taken from George Goodwin’s book, Propaganda Wars of the American Revolution, details events in Congress in Philadelphia as it moves towards approving the Declaration of Independence on 4th July 1776. yalebooks.co.uk/countdown-to... #America250 #USHistory #skystorians

Oh god @yalebooks.bsky.social has Nicholas Ormes' Going to Church in Medieval England and History of Cathedrals books. And so much more. GETTY EXHIBITION PUBLICATIONS. ON SALE. OH GOD.

Get 50% off history books in May with free postage in the UK: yalebooks.co.uk/may-book-sal...

Congratulations to Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan on being shortlisted for the 2026 BSHS Pickstone Prize for their book, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment 👇

Save 50% on a selection of print and ebooks in May using the code MAY26 in the shopping cart at time of purchase. See individual book pages for titles in the offer. *Free P&P for UK customers* Shop now: yalebooks.co.uk

Save 50% on a selection of print and ebooks in May using the code MAY26 in the shopping cart at time of purchase. See individual book pages for titles in the offer. *Free P&P for UK customers* Shop now: yalebooks.co.uk

Thomas Arundel was the English archbishop who overthrew a king. In this extract from Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker, author Chris Given-Wilson looks at Arundel’s life. yalebooks.co.uk/thomas-arund... #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

Thomas Arundel was the English archbishop who overthrew a king. In this extract from Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker, author Chris Given-Wilson looks at Arundel’s life. yalebooks.co.uk/thomas-arund... #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

Get your free eBook of E . H Gombrich's A Little History of the World - offer ends at midnight 👇

Get your free eBook of E . H Gombrich's A Little History of the World - offer ends at midnight 👇

Offa ruled the Mercian heartland of the west midlands from 757 to 796. This extract from @rorynaismith.bsky.social's authoritative new biography of Offa gives a glimpse into his career, power, and legacy. yalebooks.co.uk/offa-a-great... #medievalsky #skystorians