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Julian Loose
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Editorial Director for Trade and Academic at Yale University Press London
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wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
In the lead up to the #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner announcement next month, we are shining a light on each of the shortlisted books.

This week, Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight @yalebooks.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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edmond-smith.bsky.social
Looking forward to spending an evening with the brilliant Jake Subryan Richards on 11 November at Waterstones on Gower Street to talk about our new books!

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Ruthless & Bonds of Freedom: An evening with Edmond Smith and Jake Subryan Richards | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Ruthless & Bonds of Freedom: An evening with Edmond Smith and Jake Subryan Richards to...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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yalebooks.bsky.social
Join @edmond-smith.bsky.social and Jake Richards discussing their books Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800 and The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade

6.30pm, 11th Nov, Waterstones Gower Street
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Ruthless & Bonds of Freedom: An evening with Edmond Smith and Jake Subryan Richards | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Ruthless & Bonds of Freedom: An evening with Edmond Smith and Jake Subryan Richards to...
www.waterstones.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance
b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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yalebooks.bsky.social
In celebration of @victoriandetective.bsky.social’s book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective being shortlisted for the @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social 2025, we’re revisiting some of our prize-winning and shortlisted books — with an extract from each.
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Celebrating the Wolfson Prize - Yale University Press London
In celebration of the announcement of the Wolfson Prize 2025 shortlist, we're revisiting some of our prize-winning and shortlisted books.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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yalebooks.bsky.social
Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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kateteltscher.bsky.social
‘One of the most superbly beautiful of trees ... worth crossing the globe to see’.
For more on thawka-gyi or 'Pride of Burma', see the latest issue of Plant Perspectives. Open access:
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
September 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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The V&A East Storehouse is full of stunning surprises like this complete office that Frank Lloyd Wright created for Pittsburgh retail magnate Edgar J Kaufmann in 1935-1937 (THREAD)
September 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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edmond-smith.bsky.social
Thrilled to share early endorsements for #Ruthless!

Huge thanks to @sathnam.bsky.social, Emma Griffin, @antonhowes.bsky.social, William Pettigrew, and Nicholas Radburn for their generous words.

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Book cover of Ruthless by Edmond Smith, published by Yale University Press Five endorsements for Ruthless praising its research, originality, and vivid writing, from Sathnam Sanghera, Emma Griffin, William Pettigrew, Anton Howes, and Nicholas Radburn (1/2) Five endorsements for Ruthless praising its research, originality, and vivid writing, from Sathnam Sanghera, Emma Griffin, William Pettigrew, Anton Howes, and Nicholas Radburn (2/2)
September 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Gourock Lido, Inverdale, Scotland, 2004, by Martin Parr, whose latest book - “Utterly Lazy And Inattentive” - is a wonder.
September 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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unseenhistories.com
As the 19th century opened, Britain faced an existential crisis. Just a short distance away Napoleon's army gathered on the Channel coast. The terror of that historical moment was very real – Andrew Lambert investigates how British politicians spent the next century ensuring it was never felt again👇
How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One - Unseen Histories
We speak to Andrew Lambert, the author of No More Napoleons, about the British foreign policy between Waterloo and World War One..
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September 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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lauratisdall.bsky.social
On the blog today! Kicking off #20booksofsummer with two immersive novels about intense but non-sexual relationships. What are you reading this summer? drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/2... #booksky #sff #amreading #fiction
20 Books of Summer, #1 and #2: Immaculate Conception and Cage of Starlight
Deep in the thick of marking, I wanted to kick off 20 Books of Summer with immersive, quick reads, and these two sophomore novels about intense but non-sexual bonds delivered. Ling Ling Huang&#8217…
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June 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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emmabmusic.bsky.social
The fact that Shostakovich watched Jesus Christ Superstar (twice!) is something my brain just refuses to compute.
August 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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kateteltscher.bsky.social
What is the most beautiful flowering tree in the world? Find out in my essay for Plant Perspectives, ed. by the wonderful Caroline Cornish and Christina Hourigan.
Also features a brilliant essay on ackee by Heather Craddock,
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Front and back cover of Plant Perspectives vol 2.2 with image of installation 'Of the Oak' by Marshmallow Laser Feast in Kew Gardens 2025 on the cover. Amherstia nobilis, hand-coloured lithograph by Maxim Gauci, based on drawing by Vishnuprasad from Nathaniel Wallich, Plantae Asiaticae Rariores 1 (1830).
August 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Remembering Starling Lawrence (1943 - 2025), legendary editor of David Ignatius, Sebastian Junger, and Michael Lewis.
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August 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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My debut for @aeon.co:

Life formed incredibly early in Earth's history, so the idea that our world was once an unliveable hellscape is just not true.

https://aeon.co/essays/life-on-earth-emerged-fast-far-quicker-than-we-thought
The astronaut-scientist Harrison Schmitt during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity at the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the Moon, 13 December 1972. Courtesy NASA
August 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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ericawgnr.bsky.social
This is a really fine, interesting piece on what it means to be “a writer”, among other things.
August 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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littleatoms.bsky.social
On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @mikejay.bsky.social on his latest book Free Radicals. Out now from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:

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Little Atoms 962 - Mike Jay's Free Radicals | Little Atoms
A Podcast about Ideas and Culture
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July 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Delighted to see my forthcoming book - The Long Death of Adolf Hitler - is now available for preorder... yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 👀
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler - Yale University Press London
A fascinating exploration of why Hitler’s death was only confirmed in 2018   Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficie...
yalebooks.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Discussing FREE RADICALS at a launch event in Bath on Thursday 26th
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Free Radicals! Thomas Beddoes, Humphrey Davy and the Pneumatic Institute of Bristol – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
At the very end of eighteenth century, the distinguished Oxford chemist Dr Thomas Beddoes founded a new private medical research clinic, The Pneumatic Institute, where together with his brilliant assi...
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June 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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1812andallthat.bsky.social
Pleased to have received a preview copy of Andrew Lambert’s latest. A rewarding read so far. No More Napoleons will be published by Yale University Press later this month.
June 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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kateteltscher.bsky.social
Just writing a paper about this pair, Thomas Dawodu and Ferdinand Leigh, the first Africans to train at Kew Gardens.
Come hear their remarkable story at Gardens & Empires conference, British Library, June 27-8, & online: events.bl.uk/events/garde...
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Formal photographic studio portrait of Thomas Dawodu, 1893 Formal photographic studio portrait of Ferdinand Leigh, 1893
June 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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yalebooks.bsky.social
Inspired by British Summer Time... we have a selection of lovely books at 40% off. See page for titles included and sales restrictions.
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Yale May-June book offer at 40% off
May 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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If you want 15 minutes of pure joy bouncing big white balloons around an old church, then you’re in luck.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...
There’s a balloon-filled church in Camden at the moment for you play in
If you want 15 minutes of pure joy bouncing big white balloons around an old church, then you’re in luck.
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May 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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yalebooks.bsky.social
Every Reason to Celebrate

To commemorate #VEDay80, Marc Milner writes an exclusive post on Britain’s role in the Second World War.

Read more: yalebooks.co.uk/every-reason...

#WW2 #VEDay #veday80thanniversary #VEDay2025
Every Reason to Celebrate - Yale University Press London
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Marc Milner, author of Second Front: Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign,
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May 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM