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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 5d
We're thrilled to share that we have partnered with the University of Liverpool to deliver a master’s degree in Publishing, commencing September 2026.
Read our full announcement: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/10/09/l... @sotauol.bsky.social
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 6h
Event | The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 launch and a celebration of the Reappraisals in Irish History series will take place via Zoom on Thursday, 6th November!

Please contact Enda Delaney at [email protected] to register and receive the Zoom link, by 28th October.
Digital poster for the launch of the book The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850–1922: Business as Usual by Antonia Hart. The event takes place online via Zoom on Thursday, 6th November at 7pm. The launch celebrates both the book’s publication and the Reappraisals in Irish History series. The poster includes the book cover, which features old books on a shelf and a historic pawn ticket. The LUP logo is placed in the bottom left corner.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 8h
Dr Miranda Melcher recently chatted with @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde!

Find out more here:
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 1d
🎭 Peng Xu’s 'The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama' uncovers how courtesans shaped late Ming theatre as artists and playwrights, reshaping our view of gender and drama in China 🐉
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The Courtesan's Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama
Tracing the forgotten impact of courtesans in Chinese theater
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 1d
Tonight: Launch of Liverpool Irish Famine Trail: Reveal and its accompanying documentary 🎥 📚
Free tickets are available below ⬇️
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Liverpool Irish Festival @livirishfest.bsky.social · Sep 10
📽 World premiere: documentary + book Reveal. 3 years in the making, tracing the Walk of the Bronze Shoes from Ireland to Liverpool.

Boxpark, Mon 13 Oct.
FREE via Eventbrite!

Details: www.liverpoolirishfestival.com?post_type=ev...

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Reveal: book and documentary launch - Liverpool Irish Festival
A special preview to launch the Festival: an exclusive first screening of our new documentary and the debut of our long-awaited book, Reveal.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 1d
Most read in British Journal of Canadian Studies🍁
'‘The abiding condition was hunger’: assessing the long-term biological & health effects of malnutrition & hunger in Canada’s residential schools' by @ianmosby.bsky.social & Tracey Galloway @csnrec.bsky.social
Read it #OA: bit.ly/BJCS-Galloway-Mosby
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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 6d
We are pleased to announce that My Withered Legs and other Essays by Sandra Gail Lambert has been awarded winner of the 2025 @lambdaliterary.org Award for Lesbian Memoir/ Biography!🏆 You can order her book at ugapress.org

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https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/2025-winners/
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 1d
Gaia Gianni’s 'All in the Family' shows how Roman children weren’t just passive members of the household but key to forming “fictive kinship” with caregivers, neighbours & friends. Gianni expands family ties beyond blood and reshapes the Roman idea of family.
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All in the Family
The development of fictive kinship around young Roman children Gaia Gianni’s All in the Family explores how children shaped the development of pseudo-familial bonds, or fictive kinship, in Roman society during the early imperial period.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 1d
TONIGHT: Join us at @waterstones.bsky.social Liverpool One to hear Peter Moore discuss his memoir Game Changer: Playing to win at Xbox, EA Sports and Liverpool Football Club with Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region. Final tickets available: www.waterstones.com/events/forme...
'Peter Moore' in large red text above 'in conversation with Steve Rotheram at Waterstones Liverpool' in smaller text. To the right is a photo of Peter Moore smiling holding a football and his book cover for Game Changer in the centre. Waterstones logo in bottom left corner with text 'visit waterstones.com/events for details' to the right.
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School of the Arts at University of Liverpool @sotauol.bsky.social · 4d
Hot off the press: Applications for MA Publishing - delivered in partnership with @livunipress.bsky.social - are now open! Find out more about this career-focused, industry-driven programme and apply today:

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Apply now for MA Publishing – a partnership with Liverpool University Press | Stories | Department of English | University of Liverpool
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 4d
We're celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth with a fresh reading list, including free to read articles, new LUP books, and more. Browse it all online: bit.ly/LUP-BHM 📖
Black History Month 2025: Reading List
To mark Black History Month, we’ve put together a list of books and journal articles which provide new and critical insights into the area. Each article has been made Free to Read throughout Octobe…
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 5d
Event | The Role of the Public Intellectual in the Era of Culture Wars and Cancel Culture with Prof Sari Hanafi | 27th October

Join author @sarihanafi.bsky.social to launch his new book, Against Symbolic Liberalism, with Prof Fouad Fouad and Dr Simin Fadaee.

Register here: bit.ly/HanafiEvent
Poster for the launch of Against Symbolic Liberalism by Sari Hanafi. Event titled “The Role of the Public Intellectual in the Era of Culture Wars and Cancel Culture.” Hosted by the Department of Sociology, University of Liverpool, on Monday, 27th October, 2–4pm. Includes a talk by Hanafi and a panel with Prof. Fouad Fouad and Dr. Simin Fadaee.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 5d
🎶 Meet the Editor Session at Rethinking Music Heritage
Chat with Holly Tessler, co-editor of The Journal of Beatles Studies, about your research and how to submit your work to the first open-access journal devoted to academic Beatles research.
👉 bit.ly/Journal-of-Beatles-Studies
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Graphic promoting the Rethinking Music Heritage Conference Helsinki 2025. Text reads: “Meet Holly Tessler, co-editor of The Journal of Beatles Studies, to discuss your work. Thu 16 Oct.” Includes Liverpool University Press and University of Liverpool logos, and a cover image of The Journal of Beatles Studies featuring silhouetted figures of The Beatles jumping. Website link: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/r/jbs
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 5d
We're thrilled to share that we have partnered with the University of Liverpool to deliver a master’s degree in Publishing, commencing September 2026.
Read our full announcement: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/10/09/l... @sotauol.bsky.social
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 6d
Most read in Modern Believing this week:
'Challenges for Theology in Settler Colonial Contexts' by Michael Mawson
Read it freely #OpenAccess online: bit.ly/MB-Mawson @modernchurch.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social @scholarpriest.bsky.social @victoriaturner.bsky.social @alisonrwebster.bsky.social
The social media graphic for Modern Believing comprises a background gradient in orange, overlaid with the journal cover to the right which comprises a bold block of orange on the bottom half of the journal cover, with a white upper half featuring the issue title Mission as Solidarity, Solidarity as Mission and the issue date in black serif font.
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 7d
Winner of the 2024 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, A. Muia's 'A Desert Between Two Seas' is set amid the ruins of 19th-c Baja missions and follows a guilt-stricken priest & a deaf pistolera as they seek redemption in a stark, haunted land.
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Promotional graphic for A Desert Between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories by A. Muia, published by University of Georgia Press. The book cover shows a desert landscape at sunset, with dark mountains and the silhouette of a mission or chapel against glowing orange and purple skies.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 7d
EVENT: Join us at @sotauol.bsky.social on 6/11/25 from 11am - 12:30pm for an ECR Publishing Roundtable with publishing professionals followed by an audience Q&A. Part of the #TerraqueousGlobe Conference @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social
Tickets & registration: bit.ly/Registration-TG🌍
ECR Publishing Roundtable, School of the Arts Library, University of Liverpool 11am - 12:30pm, 6th November 2025. Designed for Early Career Researchers in the Arts and Humanities, the event will feature a Q&A and discussions from publishing professionals about both book and journals publishing more broadly. Organised as a part of the Terraqueous Globe conference.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 7d
📣 LUP's Collections & Archives 2025-2026 catalogue is now available!

Discover our broad range of digital collections, archives, and open access initiatives:

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 7d
One-third of Britain’s land still belongs to the aristocracy.

A new British Academy publication brings together a wide-ranging group of scholars to explore the place of landed gentry in twenty-first century Britain.

Get 20% off now on our website: bit.ly/3IVbkwT

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Copies of The British Aristocracy and the Modern World piled up on suede fabric. The cover features an aristocratic woman dressed in a long gown.
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 8d
'Arthurian Intertextualities' reveals how Malory’s Morte reworks earlier English poems, offering new views on Arthur, Guenevere, Launcelot & Palomydes. Tolhurst & Whetter rethink women, kingship, war, and defend Guenevere while highlighting Malory’s artistry.
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Misreading and Rereading Malory's Morte Darthur and the Alliterative and Stanzaic Mortes
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 8d
📖 Book Launch | 'Tale of Black Histories: A Translation and Critical Edition' by Edouard Glissant, translated and edited by Andrew Daily and Emily Sahakian

🗓️ 16th October 2025 at the University of Georgia
🎫 FREE to attend
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Book Launch: "Tale of Black Histories" by Edouard Glissant, translated and edited by Andrew Daily and Emily Sahakian
The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts will host a book launch for a new critical edition and translation of Tale of Black Histories, a play created by the Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant. This…
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 11d
🎭 'CosÌ fan tutte, An Opera of Mimetic Revelation'

Isabel Díaz-Morlán reads Mozart’s Così fan tutte through René Girard: tracing mimetic desire, tangled loves, and echoes of Ovid, Cervantes & Shakespeare, where words, drama & music expose rivalry, hypocrisy, and hidden truths. #MSUP
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Promotional graphic for Michigan State University Press. On the left, the MSU Press logo and website (msupress.org). On the right, the book cover of Così fan tutte: An Opera of Mimetic Revelation by Isabel Díaz-Morlán, featuring an illustration of an ornate theatre interior filled with an audience.
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Joe Greenwood-Hau @niceonecombo.bsky.social · 11d
Very nice to see my @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social Monograph included here!

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First books published under new partnership with Liverpool University Press – with new 'delayed Open Access'
Eight new British Academy books are the first to be published with Liverpool University Press as part of a new partnership this year.
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 13d
📚 Out today (and look at that cover!) 'Jazz June' is a candid exploration of identity, family, and art. Through personal moments and reflections, the author traces his journey as a son, father, artist, and Black American.
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Book cover of Jazz June: A Self-Portrait in Essays by Clifford Thompson. The title is in bold orange letters on a cream background, with the author’s name in bright blue below. The cover art shows colourful, geometric rooms with small human figures inside. To the right is the University of Georgia Press logo—a black lowercase “g” with the press name beneath—set against pastel colour blocks in beige, lavender, peach, yellow, and blue.
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 12d
In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, we appreciate our collaboration with University of Georgia Press. They excel in publishing remarkable works on Civil Rights, Black culture, and 20th-century U.S. history.
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Promotional graphic for titles from University of Georgia Press for Black History Month. We can see book covers from left to right, 'Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries', 'A Monument to Blackness', 'Protesting with Rosa Parks', and 'Protest and Pedagogy'. These are underneath the UGAP's white logo, and against a black background. We can see a black-and-white photograph of a page from what looks like the 70s, of photographs of a classroom with the heading 'Black Studies...at last'.
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Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 12d
Celebrating #NationalPoetryDay and our 2026 collections – Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social, Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller, and Against Falling by Linda Anderson. Available to pre-order from Friday the 10th October! bit.ly/Pavilion26
Three book covers appear against a starry mountain night backdrop. Left: purple cover, Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston. Center: grey cover, Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller. Right: green cover, Against Falling by Linda Anderson. Each has a small domed building icon below, the Pavilion Poetry icon.
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