Joanna Godfrey

I am beyond thrilled to announce that I have signed a contract with Yale University Press to write a Second World War history of my favourite place on the planet - Scotland!! If you need me, I'll be in the Highlands. @yalepress

Braw’s timely study charts the rise of globalisation from the optimism of the late 1980s to the current realism. A pacy & human story, it weaves economics and history into a compelling geopolitical narrative of the last three decades. @YaleBooks #goodbye-globalization" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…

During the Emergency, Indira Gandhi’s govt toyed with junking parliamentary democracy. Her aides pushed for a presidential system - centralised power, sidelined courts, symbolic parliament, reveals Srinath Raghavan in his new book on the leader. My piece. bit.ly/4e32Q20

Our bestselling Little Histories series is getting a new look! The colourful paperbacks and elegant new hardbacks are coming soon... Discover the series: yalebooks.co.uk/little-histori… @snezanalawrence @CMArtReviews @niallkishtainy @philosophybites @YaleRepUK @yalepress @readingagency

Contract signed so the news can be told. I’m thrilled to announce that I will be writing a new biography of Gráinne O Malley aka Granuaile/the Pirate Queen for Yale @yalepress @YaleBooks Looking forward to working on it with the fab @jo_godfrey Gráinne image by @Ciaraioch

Review: In “Churchill’s Citadel,” Katherine Carter organizes her book around 12 prominent visitors to Winston Churchill’s country estate in Chartwell over the course of the 1930s—the period of “the gathering storm” trib.al/RtfiAYR

Wonderful to see Churchill's Citadel in @RollCall 's 'Capitol insiders share their favourite reads of 2024' list. ✌📙 For the full list: rollcall.com/2024/12/05/cap…

"I wanted to make a health system become a living, breathing thing and I thought the best way to do that was to consider it historically" Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution by Andrew Seaton (@AndrewSeaton) is shortlisted for the 2024 #WolfsonHistoryPrize

Should Gorbachev have learned from state-capitalist China? Jianyong Yue reflects on Vladislav Zubok's Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union @YaleBooks and the limits of the China model in the Soviet context. wp.me/p2MwSQ-hFg

It was good to talk to @georgependle for his timely piece in @AirMailWeekly on Sir James Goldsmith. As I show in my book, Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It, the billionaire MEP was the Godfather of modern right-wing populism. trib.al/sK0t3IV

"As Katherine Carter shows in this fascinating book, Churchill used his years of exile at Chartwell to rebuild his life and his political career." What a wonderful *full-page* review of 'Churchill's Citadel' in today's @DailyMail. 📰

Looking forward to this talk around my book @KingsCollegeLon on October 30. Great time to be in London with historical developments across the Indian Ocean. Thanks @alessionaval! If you are in London and interested, please join us. Details below kcl.ac.uk/events/book-ta…

This week's #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2024 shortlist spotlight is @AndrewSeaton's Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution (@yalepress) ⬇️ wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners/2…

A blog about my new book on wartime murders, explaining why I’m drawn to dark stories #Blitz ⁦@YaleBooks⁩ yalebooksblog.co.uk/2024/10/23/und…

UCL History is delighted to announce that Andrew Seaton’s book 'Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution' has been awarded The Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British History! 👏👏👏@AHAhistorians @YaleBooks @yalepress shorturl.at/Gja8u

I'm honoured that my book, 'Our NHS', has won the 2024 Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485. Thanks to @AHAhistorians, all of the judges, and @yalepress @YaleBooks!

Meet the second-ever judging panel for the #WomensPrizeforNonFiction! Chair @kavpuri is joined by @elizabethbuchan, @emmagannon, @LeahBroad and Dr Elizabeth-Jane Burnett.

#NATO on our mind! ⁦@pete_apps⁩ and I presented our NATO books today at the great ⁦@CheltLitFest⁩. Very grateful to ⁦@YaleBooks⁩ for support. ⁦@DanishIAS⁩ ⁦@SyddanskUni⁩

During the 1930s, Winston Churchill retired to Chartwell, his Tudor-style country house in Kent, where he plotted a return to power. Richard Vinen asks whether it’s time to rename the decade long regarded as Churchill’s ‘wilderness years’. literaryreview.co.uk/croquet-conspi…

Chelsea History Festival - Done! ✅️ What a great crowd and being interviewed by @KHClem was such fun. Huge thanks to the organisers @ChelseaHistFest and the @NAM_London team for being such wonderful hosts, and letting me share the remarkable history of #ChurchillsCitadel.📔✌️