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(File:Teach Yourself Arabic.jpg|thumb|upright|A photo of a standard Teach Yourself book from 1943)(File:Tycovers.jpg|thumb|Teach Yourself books from the 1980s (left) and 2000s)The Teach Yourself books were published from 1938 until 1966 under the imprint English Universities Press, owned by Hodder & Stoughton. Leonard Cutts (1904-1992) was overall editor from the start,Stourton, Edward. The Publishing Game: Adventures in Books: 100 Years of Hodder & Stoughton (2018) and he remained the editor until 1964.Obituary: Leonard Cutts, in The Times, 24 April 1992, p 13. Most titles published during the Second World War were aimed at helping the British nation survive as well as improving knowledge in the subjects that would advance the war effort. Teach Yourself to Fly by Nigel Tangye was published on the eve of the Second World War. It was immediately recommended by the Air Ministry to prospective RAF pilots. Teach Yourself Radio Communication and Teach Yourself Air Navigation were added to the list in 1941. There was a big demand for these books, especially as supplies were constrained by wartime paper shortages. In June 1941 The Times reported that "sailors, soldiers and airmen have helped to bring the figures of Teach Yourself Mathematics (by John Davidson, 1938) and Teach Yourself Trigonometry (by Percival Abbott, 1940) to nearly 50,000 apiece".The Times, 28 June 1941, p.2 Barely two months later the number had risen to 80,000 each.The Times, 16 August 1941, p.2 By the 50th anniversary in 1988 some 40 million copies of the Teach Yourself series had been sold, with the books generating a turnover of over £1 million.Mackaskill, Hilary. "Goodbye, Teach Yourself Sex... hello, Origami", in The Guardian, 13 June 1988, p 25.File:Nigel Cumberland with Marwan Abedin, CEO of Dubai Healthcare City.jpg|thumb|The author, Nigel CumberlandNigel CumberlandLike many similar series, Teach Yourself has always used a common design for all of its books. Most older titles are covered with a distinctive yellow and blue, (formerly black), dust jacket, but over the years the publisher has changed the cover design several times, using an all-blue paperback format during the 1980s, a larger photographic or painted front cover with a black stripe containing the title in the 1990s, and recently adopting a yellow rounded rectangle with a black border as their primary logo in the 21st century.The Original Series (1938{{ndash}}1966)
The earliest (EUP) volumes in the series were published in 1938 priced at two shillings and sixpence. The first five books to be published were adaptations from earlier works, but subsequently all were newly commissioned."A Universal Educator Comes of Age: Teach Yourself Series", in The Guardian, 15 September 1959, p 5. The original numbering scheme reached to over 700.Wynn, Nelson. Collecting Old Teach Yourself Books (online catalogue by trade reference number) Notable early titles included:- Teach Yourself About the Greeks by J. C. Stobart, was abridged from his full length work The Glory that was Greece (1911).
- Teach Yourself Amateur Acting by John Bourne, said to have been read by Michael Caine at the start of his career.
- Teach Yourself Arabic, first published in 1943, was written by Arthur Stanley Tritton. Tritton wrote a number of books on Islam and its history, and from 1938 to 1946 was Professor of Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies.Beckingham, C. F. (1974). 'Obituary: Arthur Stanley Tritton'. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol.{{nbs}}37, No.{{nbs}}2, pp.{{nbs}}446{{ndash}}447.
- Teach Yourself Astronomy was written by the noted British astronomer David Stanley Evans in 1957. At the time he was Chief Assistant at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope.
- Teach Yourself Biology was written in 1940 by the pioneering woman physician Mary Elizabeth Phillips (with Lucy Ellen Cox).
- Teach Yourself Colloquial Arabic, first published in 1962, was written by Terence Frederick Mitchell, a British linguist at the University of Leeds.
- Teach Yourself Embroidery, one of the earliest titles in 1938, was written by Mary Thomas (1889-1948), who was editor of The Needlewoman in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Teach Yourself Irish, first published in 1961, was written by the Celtic scholars Myles Dillon and Donncha à CróinÃn.BOOK, Dillon, Myles, à CróinÃn, Donncha, 1961, Teach Yourself Irish,weblink London, English Universities Press,
- Teach Yourself to Think, published in 1938, was written by R. W. Jepson, headmaster of the Mercers' School.
- Teach Yourself Turkish, first published in 1953, was written by Geoffrey Lewis, the first professor of the Turkish language at the University of Oxford.
Current Series (1966{{ndash}})
Books in the Teach Yourself series have been published since 1966 by Hodder & Stoughton, who shifted the format of the books to trade paperbacks in 1973. For 2010, the books had a total redesign, and were printed in colour for the first time. Today they are available around the English-speaking world and cover numerous subjects, from language education to computers, games, and other crafts and hobbies.Teach Yourself website The company now specialises in self-instruction courses through books, audio and multimedia, with a particular emphasis on languages.Teach Yourself Languages Series
The Teach Yourself Languages range is available in over 65 languages and is available at four different levels. The Teach Yourself Languages range grade the four levels used against the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). In their 2012 range, Teach Yourself introduced a feature called Discovery Method. After each conversation has been practised, the Discovery Method provides further explanation through focusing on usage and practice rather than the focus on rules found in the traditional inductive method.Get Talking and Get Started Series: The first two strands, Get Talking (audio course) and Get Started, are aimed at absolute beginners and those who have not learnt a language since school. Get Talking is an all-audio course designed to teach basic speaking in a short period. Get Started In is a more comprehensive course tackling all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking).{{div col|colwidth=15em}}- Arabic
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Cantonese
- Danish
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latin
- Latin American Spanish
- Mandarin Chinese
- Modern Hebrew
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Babylonian
- Bengali
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Bulgarian
- Cantonese
- Catalan
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English as a Foreign Language
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Tagalog
- Finnish
- French
- Scottish Gaelic
- German
- Greek
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latin American Spanish
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Mandarin Chinese
- Modern Hebrew
- Modern Persian
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- Panjabi
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Spanish
- Spoken Arabic of the Gulf
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
- Xhosa
- Zulu
- German
- Italian
- Norwegian
- Spanish
- French
- Esperanto{{div col end}}
All That Matters
The All That Matters series is a series of short introductions to various subjects, intended to allow readers to "quickly discover all that matters about" their subjects. {{As of|2021|12}}, its titles include:WEB, Teach Yourself, All That Matters,weblink 2021-12-03, live,weblink {{div col|colwidth=15em}}- Ancient Egypt
- Animal Rights
- Archaeology
- Astronomy
- Atheism
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Bioethics
- Buddhism
- Classical World
- Cyber Crime & Warfare
- Darwin
- Democracy
- Emotion
- Energy
- Euthanasia
- Existentialism
- Free Speech
- Future Cities
- Future
- God
- History of Medicine
- Intelligence
- International Relations
- Judaism
- Love
- Mathematics
- Modern China
- Modern Japan
- Modern Korea
- Muhammad
- Philosophy
- Plato
- Political Philosophy
- Risk
- Sexuality
- Shakespeare's Comedies
- Shakespeare's Tragedies
- Space Exploration
- Stress
- Sustainability
- Terrorism
- The Renaissance
- The Romans
- Water
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References
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- Official website
- Collecting Old Teach Yourself Books - older dustjackets in numbered sequence with background details
- Bookride: Teach Yourself Books
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