[2] "A Concise Guide to Teach Yourself", compiled by A R Taylor, was published in 1958 and listed all the titles up until then.

[3] The Teach Yourself books were published from 1938 until 1966 under the imprint English Universities Press, owned by Hodder & Stoughton.

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.

One of the most extreme was Teach Yourself Jet Engines and Rocket Propulsion by Patrick Joseph McMahon, published in 1964.

Today they are available around the English-speaking world and cover numerous subjects, from language education to computers, games, and other crafts and hobbies.

[13] The company now specialises in self-instruction courses through books, audio and multimedia, with a particular emphasis on languages.

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).