Old Street Publishing
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Independent British publisher of non-fiction and fiction. Highlights include James Hawes's The Shortest History of Germany and Hannelore Cayre's The Godmother, winner of the 2020 'Crime Fiction in Translation' Dagger.
Who better to talk about the North-South divide than James Hawes, author of THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF ENGLAND? Hear him on Antisocial on Radio4 @jameshawes.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - AntiSocial, The north-south divide
Andy Burnham re-ignites a debate about England's cultural stereotypes and prejudices.
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The Union Chapel is advertising for a part-time archivist - it's a great job for someone. I've spent a lot of time there and the staff are great. The archive starts c.1820 and the postwar sections esp. are crammed with ephemera on all kinds of music and performance.
Never mind ancient Greece and The Odyssey, what about ancient Rome? Ross King, author of The Shortest History of Ancient Rome, interviewed on the Author Archive: davidjohnfreeman.podbean.com/e/ross-king-...
Ross King : The Shortest History of Ancient Rome | The Author Archive Podcast
Hearing Ross talk about the Ancient Romans is an entertaining revelation. I didn't know that the 'no kings' movement is a Roman invention as is the tradition of reminding would be absolute rulers tha...
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Andrew Leigh's fascinating THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF INNOVATION is published next month in the UK. You can get a taste of it here in this podcast Andrew has done with ABC Australia. podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/a...
Exploring LANCASHIRE with author Chris Moss www.tripfiction.com/exploring-la... "..an in-depth look at the county and would be a wonderful gift for anyone who has associations with this part of England.." @oldstpublishing.bsky.social #blueskybooks #booksky
Exploring LANCASHIRE with author Chris Moss - TripFiction
Lancashire: Exploring the historic county that made the modern world by Chris Moss. Lancashire came into being during the reign of the Plantagenets and
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'...it really beggars belief that it has held together for as long as it has. It’s held together by a rousing, ecstatic anthem, a flag and some very fine words' DON WATSON, author of THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF THE USA, interviewed by @fivebooks.com fivebooks.com/best-books/u...
The United States
For all its rugged individualism, frontier violence, and capitalist churn, there’s always a search for grace in America, argues Don Watson, author of the excellent The Shortest History of the United S...
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“You can’t deny that the real miracle is that out of these 13 fractious colonies they created a republic and it survived for 250 years...” DON WATSON, author of THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF THE USA, in conversation with Nick Feik on Future Perfect. @nickfeik.bsky.social www.rrr.org.au/on-demand/se...
Segments: Future Perfect: Don Watson on America’s Storied History And Strange Present — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
On July 4, 1776, 250 years ago this week, the Continental Congress in America officially adopted the Declaration of Independence, which severed the 13 American colonies from Great Britain, and establi...
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David Boyd Haycock's excellent ART-QUAKE, 1910: The Manet and the Post-Impressionists Exhibition has been picked as one of The Times's recommended summer reads. 'A short, ever so readable dive into a fascinating moment in British cultural history' www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
The 90 best books to read this summer
Novels, memoirs and history, paperbacks and hardbacks — plus something for the children. Here’s our 2026 guide to this summer’s finest reads
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Ross King's excellent THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROME is out now in paperback. 'Expertly blending instruction with amusement, King presents serious lessons for our times and reminds us why the past should not be forgotten if a better future is what we desire' @insidestory.bsky.social
'Explore the fought-over fringes and blurred edges of Britain’s greatest county' – LANCASHIRE author Chris Moss in the @the-independent.com @traveloguer.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/travel/uk/la...
Visit underrated Lancashire for a surprising, history-filled summer getaway
Writer Chris Moss discovers the breathtaking landscapes, singular cities and contested history of his home county
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"Very readable... For teachers of computing, it's a valuable guide to how Al-derived approaches to problem solving have evolved over time" Terry Freedman's review in TEACH SECONDARY MAGAZINE of Toby Walsh's THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF AI. Out now in paperback @tobywalsh.bsky.social
A Complete History of Medieval Scotland - in 51 minutes - from The Shortest History of Scotland author Murray Pittock on the Gone Medieval podcast from HistoryHit. @murrayp.bsky.social shows.acast.com/gone-medieva...
A Complete History of Medieval Scotland | Gone Medieval
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Just in print-available in the shops soon for £14.99, launch events in Edinburgh and Glasgow to come, first podcast recording with Jackie Bird for National Trust for Scotland @empirepoduk.bsky.social @historia-hwa.bsky.social @uguelphscottish.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social
From cotton to coal and canals, from Pendle witches to Peterloo, from Tony Wilson to Andy Burnham's jacket, Chris Moss's LANCASHIRE explores the historic county that made the modern world. Out now in hardback.
'For many of us, Scottish history is an area of knowledge where we’re sadly lacking. Murray Pittock’s THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF SCOTLAND is the perfect book to help fill those gaps... This may be The Shortest History of Scotland, but it’s one of the best.' @snackmag.bsky.social @murrayp.bsky.social
A superb gallop through 10,000 years of Scottish history ... spritely but serious ... an impressive feat of distillation and analysis. It’s timely too' @heraldscotland.bsky.social on Murray Pittock's THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF SCOTLAND.
Signing at the Watermill Bookshop, Aberfeldy today- what a great place & the Shortest History going very fast @oldstpublishing.bsky.social
66 today! New book #1 in #Ireland; old book just hit 200,000 sales in #Deutschland. Big interview with @diezeit.bsky.social yesterday on #AfD. Wonderful wife and 11 yr-old-son waiting to surprise me. Drinks with two grown Welsh-speaking sons later. Thank you, life!
AI isn't reinventing the wheel but it should heed the lessons of human innovation - Andrew Leigh, author of the forthcoming THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF INNOVATION, writes in Monocle. monocle.com/affairs/ai-i...
AI isn’t reinventing the wheel but it should heed the lessons of human innovation
Like all great human innovations, it’s time for AI’s road test.
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'Terrific...an imaginative tour de force' Bel Mooney in @dailymail.co.uk Books on @johnpaulstonard.com's THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD: Degenerate Art, 1937. www.dailymail.com/home/books/a...
The artworks Hitler loved to hate
The Nazi's and especially Hitler found certain styles of art so grotesquely offensive that they even held a Degenerate Art exhibition
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The shortest history of ANCIENT ROME by Ross King www.tripfiction.com/the-shortest... "..an efficient and entertaining trawl through the history of Ancient Rome, spanning the period 1000BCE to 476CE.." @oldstpublishing.bsky.social #booksky #blueskybooks
The shortest history of ANCIENT ROME - TripFiction
The shortest history of Ancient Rome by Ross King This is an efficient and entertaining trawl through the history of Ancient Rome, spanning the period
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The paperback of Colin Jones's THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF FRANCE is out now. 'An ideal introduction to French history for almost any reader. It is also very up to date… the range of Jones's coverage, delivered with elegance and often wit, is very impressive’ LITERARY REVIEW @litreview.bsky.social
Happy paperback publication to Ian Mortimer's MORTIMER's A-Zs OF ENGLISH HISTORY. How did the button transform medieval life? At a smart Elizabethan party, should you kiss your hostess on the lips? Why did Regency Londoners drink so much port?
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Caledonian Chronicles: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Murray Pittock...
For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali spoke to Professor Murray Pittock to talk about his latest book The Shortest History of Scotland, which is published with Old Street Publishing Ltd."From Col...
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Today on the blog, the second (and equally fascinating) book from @oldstpublishing.bsky.social on controversial art exhibitions! "...an insult to the taste of the English people." #ArtQuake1910 #oldstreetpublishing kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/a...
“…an insult to the taste of the English people.” #ArtQuake1910 #oldstreetpublishing
The second of the two recent released from Old Street Publishing, in their ‘Great Events’ series, is the intriguingly titled “Art-Quake 1910” by David Boyd Hancock. Subtitle…
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It's #worldbeeday ‘If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh’s clear, insightful, remarkable – and short – work’ Claudia Goldin, Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics
#worldbeeday Chris Moss's LANCASHIRE: Exploring the Historic County that Made the Modern World - from Manchester's bee to Liverpool's docks to Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Pendle Witches. @traveloguer.bsky.social
On the blog today, the first of two brilliant art books from @oldstpublishing.bsky.social "It is a dance, a collaboration, this outrage". #degenerateart @OldStPublishing kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/i...
“It is a dance, a collaboration, this outrage”. #degenerateart @OldStPublishing
Old Street Publishing is an indie press which I only came across relatively recently, but I’ve loved both of the books I’ve read from them, each by Sheila Fitzpatrick: “The Death …
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“The whole Russian Empire collapsed in a couple of months in 1989 and if we don’t think the UK can go the same way, we’re in cloud cuckoo land.” James Hawes, author of The Shortest History of Ireland, on @bylinetimes.bsky.social @jameshawes.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/is-the-uni...
Is the United Kingdom Heading for Divorce?
Bestselling author James Hawes talks to the Byline Podcast about why history suggests that the union will become ever more precarious
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