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Very pleased to receive author’s copies of Offa, King of the Mercians from @yalebooks.bsky.social today. Looking superb, and an excellent publishing experience!

The Survival of Roman Education in Early Medieval Britain - Medievalists.net Roman rule ended in 410, but Latin education did not. Nicholas J. Higham explores elite learning and literary culture in post-Roman Britain.

The Survival of Roman Education in Early Medieval Britain www.medievalists.net/2026/02/roma... #medieval #earlymiddleages

Baybars and the Fall of the Syrian Assassins - Medievalists.net Steve Tibble on how Baybars dismantled the Syrian Assassins, turned them into Mamluk agents, and reshaped Nizari Ismailism in the thirteenth century.

Baybars and the Fall of the Syrian Assassins www.medievalists.net/2026/02/bayb... #history #medieval

The Return of Russia: new details of upcoming live events. This post is an update on the latest live events planned about my new book The Return of Russia: from Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful Kremlin. Between now and the end of May, I am due to …

New on my website: details of my live book events in London, Birmingham, and Derby in the coming weeks
'The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful Kremlin' is published by @yalebooks.bsky.social .
Do please come along if you can.
jamesrodgersauthor.com/the-return-o...

Double page feature in the Sunday Express titled Letters from London linked to the book Wartime Letters by Kathleen Harriman, edited by Geoffrey Roberts published by Yale University Press. Newspaper open on a table with a cup of tea in top right corner

Having a cup of tea and catching up with the papers. Loving this feature in the Sunday Express about Kathy Harriman who wrote for the Express during the war. The book Wartime Letters by Kathleen Harriman edited by Geoff Roberts is published by @yalebooks.bsky.social yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

The Return of Russia - Yale University Press London An incisive and engaging account of post-Soviet Russia—showing how and why the country has come into confrontation with the West   The escalation ...

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 - Medievalists.net People across the medieval world looked up at the moon and found all kinds of meaning in it—scientific learning, literature, art, faith, and folklore. This book explores how the moon shaped society…

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...

How Putin turned Russia’s post-Soviet ‘national humiliation’ into military aggression in Ukraine James Rodgers talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about why Russia turned its back on the west.

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...

Oh, what a lovely war — lines from a witty insider A marvellous take on history as it was being made

www.standard.co.uk/culture/book...

The god of small things: Seurat and the sea – review Courtauld Gallery, LondonThis quietly tremendous exhibition gathers more than half of the pointillist painter’s works, all depicting the Channel coast and sea, full of blizzards of light and a quivering sense of import

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...

Super Hans: how Holbein got his big break A new biography celebrates the artist who shaped our image of the Tudors, and teases out his motivations, writes Tim Smith-Laing

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...

Colour plate depicting ray-finned fish, coloured orange with three cream stripes running along the length of its its body. From 'A History of the Fishes of the British Isles' (1862) by English naturalist Jonathan Couch.

'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

Annual lecture | The Centre for Victorian Studies | University of Leicester Find out more about our latest annual public lecture, hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Leicester

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

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Book talk: The Return of Russia From Yeltsin to Putin, the story of a vengeful Kremlin

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
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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

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#medievalsky #skystorians

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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
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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

Backstage An excerpt from Why Sound Matters

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