Julian Loose
@loosestish.bsky.social
Editorial Director for Trade and Academic at Yale University Press London
Thanks everyone who came to Derby Book Festival on Thurs 28, especially to @alentop.bsky.social for chairing. Great audience questions. It was a pleasure to chat afterwards while signing copies of 'The Return of Russia' @yalebooks.bsky.social and proudly wearing my @kyivindependent.com t-shirt.
Finished @mikejay.bsky.social's PSYCHONAUTS. Been a fan since reading his essays in Fortean Times and Anomalist (great piece on Coleridge!). Approachable, with deep insights. Text runs from Freud to Yeats, H.G. Wells, to Crowley, Blavatsky to Baudelaire. Bold, rich, nuanced.. and fun! 🔥 #BookSky
Paperback £6 this month from Yale, same deal on Psychonauts and Free Radicals yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Mescaline - Yale University Press London
A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline became a popul...
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Fab day last week with @patersonjoseph.bsky.social recording 'The King of the Beggars: The Music of Billy Waters' 🎼🎻 🎧BBC Radio 3 Sunday June 28th 2026 7.15pm Later on BBC Sounds #billywatersisdancing #blackhistoryisbritishhistory #disabilityhistroy #theatreland #folkies @yalebooks.bsky.social
Just stumbled on this extraordinary tragicomic image. Dancing on the grave of a giant redwood, 4 July 1853. 'Upon this stump ... thirty-two persons were engaged in dancing four sets of cotillions at one time', J. M. Hutchings, Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California, 1862.
New link for my London book launch for WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN at Waterstones Gower St on Weds 13th May at 6.30pm - because I'm now in conversation with the fantastic @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/we-ha... #skystorians #histchild
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*25% off even
Laura Tisdall@lauratisdall.bsky.social · 6mo agoAnother chance to get 15% off WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order via @waterstones.bsky.social between 17 and 20 February using the code FEB26 at checkout. Takes the price down to just over £20! Also there are loads of other fab books in the pre-order offer #booksky #histchild
Spotted not quite in the wild, but at least on the edge of release! Thank you @yalebooks.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about my new book today & for all your brilliant work during the publishing process. #TheLongDeathOfAdolfHitler is out 10 March! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
At the eve of the Second World War, some 500 Jewish children escaped to France in the Kindertransport. Extracted from Who Will Rescue Us?, Laura Hobson Faure interviews Elfriede Meyer about her journey. #HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorialDay #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/elfriedes-jo...
Elfriede’s Journey: A Child Refugee’s Escape from Nazi Germany
Laura Hobson Faure interviews Elfriede Meyer about her journey from Frankfurt and her refuge in France at the outbreak of war.
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The London Mayor's Office recently announced a scheme to reintroduce storks to London. From 1890 storks formed one of the attractions of Kew Gardens:'their quaint appearance and philosophical habits make them rather in keeping with a botanical garden' (Journal of the Kew Guild, 1902).
Feel free to mute me if you get tired of seeing me talking about my book over the next few months but BEFORE YOU DO, I just wanted to point out that the fantastic Francis Spufford has very kindly said that it 'gives us extraordinary, privileged access to the inner worlds of a generation' 🥂🥂🥂
Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Charming open-the-flap cover of 1950 guide to Kew. The wintery scene in the Palm House transforms to summer and a view of the Pagoda when the door opens. Truly, a garden for all seasons!
If anyone needs cheering up, here are three jolly dancing gardeners. Edward Bawden's illustration from Robert Herring's wonderful Adam and Evelyn at Kew (1930).
We are incredibly sad to learn of the death of John Carey, whose last three books we were proud to publish at Yale. One of our greatest literary critics, John was a strong advocate for poetry and making it accessible. He was diligent and superb at what he did, but always with a sense of fun.
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie... A lovely tribute to the brilliant John Carey, whose work I return to again and again and again.
John Carey obituary: literary critic
Witty, eclectic and sometimes scathing scholar and reviewer who held sacred cows in little respect, dies aged 91
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The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar resumes on 14 January 2026, in person at the Institute of Historical Research and online via Zoom. (Kate Gibson, speaking on Fostering in 18th-century Britain). Access next term's programme here. All welcome: free and open to the public.
British History in the Long 18th Century
Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns
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⚠️ Stand-off in Sheringham: Local campaigners have spent the past three nights camping out overnight in an extraordinary bid to save a 1950s Streamline Moderne style bus shelter in Norfolk, thwarting council contractors who attempted to demolish the structure at 2am. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
There’s just one week of our @yalebooks.bsky.social half price sale left - must end 30th November!
Yale University Press London 📖@yalebooks.bsky.social · 9mo agoGet 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage! Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in November Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25 Not available N/S America & Australia/NZ #booksale #universitypress
‘Brilliant… A kind of shadow biography of Shakespeare from the bottom up’ - Wonderful review of Daniel Swift’s superb The Dream Factory www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
Shakespeare Becoming Shakespeare, With Help From His Working-Class Peers
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There is still time to get your ticket for Mike Jay's talk tonight 👇
Yale University Press London 📖@yalebooks.bsky.social · 9mo agoDo you know the history behind the discovery of laughing gas? Join @mikejay.bsky.social, historian of science and medicine as he discusses his latest book, Free Radicals. 21/11, 6pm Wolfson Lecture Theatre, SE5 8AB Tickets: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/free-...
Get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage! Use code FIFTY at checkout at: yalebooks.co.uk/history Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in Nov Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25 Not available N/S America & Aus/NZ #Skystorians #history
Thrilled to see Ruthless reviewed in the FT by Linda Colley, and to be placed among the FT's books of the week too! 😊 www.ft.com/content/67c1...
Ruthless by Edmond Smith — the brutal rise of Britain’s industrial power
The historian’s splendid account sets out the ideas, inventions and relentless exploitation that drove the nation’s growth from 1660-1800
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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.
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! www.waterstones.com/events/ruthl...
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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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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 www.waterstones.com/events/ruthl...
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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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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
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. yalebooks.co.uk/celebrating-...
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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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
