March 23, 2018
100 years ago on 25th March 1918, the French composer Claude Debussy died at the age of 55. To commemorate the 2018 centenary we have selected five books on Debussy… READ MORE
March 12, 2018
London, dizzy London. Or as my very Marxist friend calls it, the City of Engels. Busy, grubby and unfriendly it may be, but what history, what architecture, what opportunity it… READ MORE
March 8, 2018
The women in these books show themselves to be individual, influential thinkers, whether their works and actions have local, national, or worldwide effects. Though the classical music canon may seem… READ MORE
March 2, 2018
When it comes to finding new books to dig your teeth into, there’s plenty to get excited about this March. Whether you consider yourself a devoted Game of Thrones fan… READ MORE
February 27, 2018
The Montpellier Codex The Final Fascicle. Contents, Contexts, Chronologies Edited by Catherine A. Bradley, Karen Desmond No, this isn’t the latest Dan Brown, it’s actually on medieval music. The Montpellier… READ MORE
February 23, 2018
We are Carolyne Larrington of the University of Oxford and Sif Rikhardsdottir of the University of Iceland and we have recently started up a new series for Boydell and Brewer,… READ MORE
February 21, 2018
Some author publisher relationships stand the test of time. James Currey (the man) first met James Ngugi (as he was then called) in June 1962 at the ‘Conference of African… READ MORE
February 19, 2018
The prolific Jeffrey Forgeng is doing his best to maintain the Boydell Press armour and weapons list single-handedly. Here, he offers a translation of a wide-ranging treatise by the Spanish-turned-Italian… READ MORE
February 12, 2018
It’s likely that most of our forebears often lived in much closer contact with animals, keeping them in close proximity for the many resources they could provide. Some creatures, due… READ MORE
The Power of Anti-Slavery Poetry