The Marlborough Mound in its garden setting
07/10/2022
In 1548, the castle was granted to Edward duke of Somerset, Protector of the young Edward VI. He was executed in 1552, but his heirs retained the estates, and it… READ MORE
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The Marlborough Mound and its missing castle
28/09/2022
Within months of the Battle of Hastings, the Norman armies came to Marlborough, and – though we have no positive physical evidence to prove this, they created a rough fortification… READ MORE
The Marlborough Mound – a major new prehistoric monument
06/09/2022
Marlborough Mound is one of the least visible of the great monuments of England, and almost unknown except to local historians and specialists. It stands in the middle of Marlborough… READ MORE
Books to Look out for in August 2022
01/08/2022
A new month means new releases from Boydell & Brewer! Enjoy this preview of some of the books to look out for this month, and don’t miss the special offer… READ MORE
Happy Birthday Richard Barber!
29/10/2021
This week sees a landmark birthday for Dr Richard Barber, co-founder in 1969 of the Boydell Press which in time merged with Derek Brewer’s imprint to form Boydell & Brewer. All of… READ MORE
Bees, Brooches and Books
24/07/2020
Richard Barber on the sad reason relatively little medieval jewellery exists and how while writing his new book, Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages, he set about recreating… READ MORE
Books to Look Out for in April 2020
01/04/2020
This month we publish the marvellous Magnificence by Richard Barber, the first-ever comprehensive examination of Tzvetan Todorov’s cultural theory, a collection of pedagogical essays that presents proven strategies for the… READ MORE
Magnificence
24/03/2020
We are so thrilled to be publishing Magnificence, Richard Barber’s latest book. A truly beautiful object in itself, it is filled with colour illustrations of the treasures that signified the… READ MORE
A Christmas Blog
20/12/2019
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ”― Norman Vincent Peale Christmas is around the corner and at Boydell & Brewer we… READ MORE
On the track of Boydell Authors in Italy
07/10/2019
We have just come back from six days in Italy, in Umbria, where the temperature hit 40 C, which more or less defeated the air conditioning. We were there because… READ MORE
7 Books to Read on Maritime History