The article is based on research for my new book from @yalebooks.bsky.social yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Free online talk: Chris Given-Wilson (Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker: A Life of Thomas Arundel) and Carol Chillington Rutter (Lying Abroad) discussing their new books with Pete Atkin. 25th Feb, 6-7.30pm Register free: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/carol... #medievalsky #skystorians

Free online talk: Chris Given-Wilson (Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker: A Life of Thomas Arundel) and Carol Chillington Rutter (Lying Abroad) discussing their new books with Pete Atkin. 25th Feb, 6-7.30pm Register free: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/carol... #medievalsky #skystorians

New Medieval Books: The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing, by Ayoush Lazikani, published by @yalebooks.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/02/new-... #Moon #Lunar #books

Get 25% off pre-orders of selected Yale books on the Waterstones website and app until Friday. Enter the code “FEB26” at the checkout to redeem the offer. Browse the list of books included in the offer here: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb...

My latest media interview based on my research for my new book, 'The Return of Russia' (@yalebooks.bsky.social) is this podcast, recorded with Gemma Ware for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-putin-tu...

On March 24, I will be in conversation @gowerst-books.bsky.social with @lucyaash.bsky.social about my new book, 'The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful Kremlin.' (@yalebooks.bsky.social). If you are in London that evening, please come to join the discussion.

Yesterday at the Frontline Club--an evening discussing my new book 'The Return of Russia (@yalebooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to @terrystiastny.bsky.social for expert chairing, and to everyone who came along. I am due to do more events in London, Derby, and Bristol in the coming months

Authors Carol Chillington Rutter (Lying abroad) and Chris Given-Wilson (Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker) will be in conversation with Pete Atkin about their new books. Register for this FREE online event: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/carol... @yalebooks.bsky.social #historysky #booksky

Get 25% off pre-orders of selected Yale books on the Waterstones website and app until Friday. Enter the code “FEB26” at the checkout to redeem the offer. Browse the list of books included in the offer here: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb...

The god of small things: Seurat and the sea – review

Out next month: Nuremberg: The Translator's Tale The Story of Howard Triest, German-Jewish Interpreter of the Nazi War Criminals by Helen Fry yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

In a new biography, Elizabeth Goldring describes Hans Holbein as ‘exceptionally driven, focused and ambitious: a workaholic, in modern terms’. Tim Smith-Laing on ‘a biography that shuns the temptations of Romanticism or novelistic imaginings without ever losing sight of the human at its centre’

If you love TURNER & CONSTABLE, RIVALS & ORIGINALS exhibition at Tate you may want to hear 4th May Nicola Moorby discussing with @megster.bsky.social #TurnerAndConstable @yalebooks.bsky.social in #Cotswolds in May TICKETS on line www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it' - Charles Darwin, 7 May 1855 Poor ol' Chas. It's #DarwinDay! 🦋🐵🐟 Here's an unsung hero in Darwin's queer menagerie, Serranus cabrilla. It proved that a vertebrate species could be hermaphrodite. That made Chas happy! 🌈📚🗃️ #histsci #queerhistory

Really looking forward to this event, anyone with an interest in British history should register and attend

I'm giving the Leicester Victorian Studies Annual Lecture next week! Come along and explore fame, race, and disability in the 19th c @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ukdishisthub.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social le.ac.uk/victorian-st...

Weds 18.2 I'll be at the Frontline Club in conversation with @terrystiastny.bsky.social about my new book 'The Return of Russia' (@yalebooks.bsky.social). Still some tickets left. In London that evening? Do come along! #Russia #RussiaUkrainewar #history #Putin www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...

Free online talk: Chris Given-Wilson (Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker: A Life of Thomas Arundel) and Carol Chillington Rutter (Lying Abroad) discussing their new books with Pete Atkin. 25th Feb, 6-7.30pm Register free here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b4c2bf... #medievalsky #skystorians

Enjoyed the Patreon episode? 🎧✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "A Spy Among Us” by Marc Mierowski through the History Rage Bookshop! 📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... 🎧 Listen now : www.patreon.com/post... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

Looking forward to giving this lecture in Prague on 4 March, part of the work on my Scotland: The Cultural History, in preparation for @yalebooks.bsky.social ualk.ff.cuni.cz/guest-lectur...

Free online talk: Chris Given-Wilson (Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker: A Life of Thomas Arundel) and Carol Chillington Rutter (Lying Abroad) discussing their new books with Pete Atkin. 25th Feb, 6-7.30pm Register free here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b4c2bf... #medievalsky #skystorians

My book Why Sound Matters is just out in the UK and EU. Here is a new excerpt, “Backstage” dadadrummer.substack.com/p/backstage

'Whose candelle burneth cleere and bright, a wondrous force and might.' 🕯️🕯️🕯️🗃️ #Candlemas

Francis Young is brilliant on the greatness of The Stripping of the Altars - on the Writer's Bookshelf this morning. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...

In The Stripping of the Altars, Eamon Duffy recreates lay people’s experience of religion in the pre-Reformation church. Read about Candlemas, the festival commemorating the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. yalebooks.co.uk/candlemas-th... #ChurchHistory #Skystorians #medievalsky

Aleksander Pluskowski's new book, The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades, is now out from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Here, Aleks tells us more about the historical sites that are important to his book www.medievalists.net/2026/01/plac... #medieval #historybooks

Have you enjoyed this week’s Patreon episode? 🎧✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "Infanta: The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela” by Magdalena Sanchez 📖 Buy: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... 🎧 Listen: www.patreon.com/post... #History @yalebooks.bsky.social

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋

Spotted not quite in the wild, but at least on the edge of release! Thank you @yalebooks.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about my new book today & for all your brilliant work during the publishing process. #TheLongDeathOfAdolfHitler is out 10 March! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Busy office day at @yalebooks.bsky.social including a fascinating lunchtime lecture from author @carolinesharples.bsky.social about her upcoming book The Long Death of Adolf Hitler

My book Why Sound Matters is in UK shops starting today please go say hello to it yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

At the eve of the Second World War, some 500 Jewish children escaped to France in the Kindertransport. Extracted from Who Will Rescue Us?, Laura Hobson Faure interviews Elfriede Meyer about her journey. #HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorialDay #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/elfriedes-jo...

Our Book of the Week is ‘Architecture and Artifice’ by Christine Casey from @yalebooks.bsky.social The book uses archival material and insights from architectural conservation to consider the materials and craftsmanship that shaped 18th-century architecture in Britain & Ireland.

Robert Burns is celebrated as Scotland’s national poet each #BurnsNight, but his influence reaches far beyond. In this extract, @murrayp.bsky.social explores how his poetry came to embody ideas of universal humanity as well as Scottish identity. yalebooks.co.uk/the-story-of... #skystorians

The launch @yalebooks.bsky.social of my new book, 'The Return of Russia.' Special thanks to my editor @jogodfrey.bsky.social, and to everyone from the worlds of journalism, academia, and diplomacy who came. I will also be doing an event at the Frontline Club on Feb 18. Details, and link to book 👇

Robert Burns is celebrated as Scotland’s national poet each #BurnsNight, but his influence reaches far beyond. In this extract, @murrayp.bsky.social explores how his poetry came to embody ideas of universal humanity as well as Scottish identity. yalebooks.co.uk/the-story-of... #skystorians

This extract from Unfrozen by Mia Bennett and @klausdodds.bsky.social shows how Donald Trump’s second administration has transformed Greenland into an international flashpoint. yalebooks.co.uk/greenland-in...

My new book 'The Return of Russia' is published next week. I spoke to @bunkerpod.bsky.social about Russia's post-Cold War history with the West--and how it led to confrontation. Book out in the UK and US on Jan. 27 from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Link below. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

My lovely friend @carolinesharples.bsky.social has a fantastic book with @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social, & an exciting launch in March @wienerlibrary.bsky.social. You should definitely all order it and go to hear her talk if you're in the vicinity. I'm off to preorder it now :-)

I've been reading these over the weekend. Two superb new books out in the next couple of months from @yalebooks.bsky.social

UK readers! Get "Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette" and a lot of other great @yalebooks.bsky.social titles for 30% off with free shipping until January 31! yalebooks.co.uk/bsecs26/

This works for Masquerade pre-orders too 😘

👀 a 30% discount on my book & including postage in the UK 📚

18th century 📚 on sale from @yalebooks.bsky.social, including postage in the UK #18thcentury

There is currently 30% off selected 18th-c history titles by Yale University Press, including Race and the Scottish Enlightenment.

Take 30% off selected 18th century history titles until 31.1.2026 - including books by @fourredshoes.bsky.social and @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social. Includes free postage in the UK! Browse online here: yalebooks.co.uk/bsecs26/

This extract from Unfrozen by Mia Bennett and @klausdodds.bsky.social shows how Donald Trump’s second administration has transformed Greenland into an international flashpoint. yalebooks.co.uk/greenland-in...

Just finished "Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic" by Mia Bennett and @klausdodds.bsky.social. Highly recommend for those interested in the Arctic's past, present & future. Amazingly detailed, with the added depth of personal experiences. #ArcticGovernance #Geopolitics #ClimateChange