07/09/2018
Among our many new books for the second half of 2018, one of the highlights is English Medieval Church Towers. David Ryan has visited and painted 500 medieval churches of the Northern Province of England to record their towers in watercolour, preserving for posterity a delightful record of one of the greatest groupings of England’s historic buildings.
05/09/2018
Looking for a new Boydell book this month? From the conception of English identity, to the beautiful watercolour illustrations of English Medieval church towers, to the literary contributions to Ghana’s… READ MORE
29/08/2018
It’s not often that archaeologists have the chance to examine a riverbed, let alone dig 25 meters down to a layer that was formed in the last Ice Age, 10,000… READ MORE
24/08/2018
The previously untold story of the brilliant Russian concert pianist Gregory Haimovsky is revealed in Marissa Silverman’s new book for University of Rochester Press. Exiled by the Soviet regime, Haimovsky… READ MORE
21/08/2018
Dr Kate Philip is a Senior Economic Development Advisor in the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC), an agency of South Africa’s National Treasury, and, through the International Labour Organisation, she… READ MORE
15/08/2018
Where in Vienna did Ludwig van Beethoven scribble down his early compositional ideas for Missa solemnis? To which poets and writers did he gravitate the most? How did he like… READ MORE
10/08/2018
Robert Mills, author of the recent book Derek Jarman’s Medieval Modern, discusses this iconic British Filmmaker in an exclusive sneak peek interview with the Medieval Herald. As Derek Jarman makes… READ MORE
08/08/2018
Threads of Global Desire: Silk in the Pre-Modern World is the first volume in the Pasold Studies in Textile, Dress and Fashion History from the Pasold Research Fund. It is… READ MORE
03/08/2018
Even if we neither participate nor spectate, horse racing is a constant presence in our culture. Racing seems to take place every single day of the year and results and… READ MORE
02/08/2018
18th Century shoplifting, a pillars of Russian pianism, and film and fashion in postwar Germany are just some of the topics bursting out of this August’s must-reads. Take a look… READ MORE
Gender and Race in American History