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NEW FOR 2026 | Essays in Long Late Antiquity
A new Open Access journal in first millennium studies, enticing interdisciplinary and superregional approaches to research in the second to the ninth centuries & broader Afro-Eurasian region: bit.ly/4f7BXZC @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social
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December 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🎥 The latest volume in Greece and Rome Live, Televising Ancient Rome in the Twenty-First Century, is available now!

The first book to provide a comprehensive overview of ancient Rome on television in the second millennium, learn more here ⬇️
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December 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Our fantastic @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social collections are all included in the LUP Winter Sale, including preorders of the forthcoming 2026 poetry collections. Use discount code 27WINTER on our website to claim your discount! Sale ends 18th December.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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New in Romantic Reconfigurations | Charlotte Smith's Liberal Feminism re-values her fiction as articulating a specifically liberal agenda of legislative reform and intellectual freedom, often through imitations of earlier comic fiction and satire.

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Promotional image for Charlotte Smith’s Liberal Feminism by Anne Chandler, published by Liverpool University Press. The book cover shows an 18th-century pastoral illustration with figures near a river, trees, and sailing ships. Text highlights the study’s argument that Charlotte Smith’s novels imagine political reform in distinctly liberal, often comedic ways.
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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New in Science Fiction Studies | The Cultural Heritage of Blade Runner features a contribution from a associate producer on the film and contains a fascinating and insightful range of essays from different perspectives reassessing Blade Runner and its legacy.

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December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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📣 Open Access ahead-of-print content from The Journal of Beatles Studies: new reviews and a poetic look at Beatles history.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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New in TTH | The latest volume in the TTH series, Documents of the Early ‘Arian’ Controversy and the Council of Nicaea, is available now!

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December 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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New in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the different forms of play found in depictions of radically better and radically worse societies.

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December 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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In their new IDPR Featured Article, @barryacucad.bsky.social and Abhilash Babu reveal how grassroots actors shape governance in Mali’s Office du Niger.

Read their blog post and Open Access article ➡️ bit.ly/IDPRfeatured-47-4
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December 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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In need of a gift for your favourite #Liverpool enthusiast? Get 50% off our Liverpool Interest titles in our Winter Sale! Use code 27WINTER on the LUP website to claim your discount.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Recently published in English Association Monographs: English at the Interface | Elizabethan Occult Poetics argues that occult tradition influenced the development of vernacular poetics during the sixteenth century.

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December 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Recently published in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction by Men: No Plans for the Future is the first comprehensive study of the self-representation of men in twenty-first-century SF novels.

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December 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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CFC Volume 50.4 is now available, including the 13th Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award-Winning Essay: The right to feel bad: ambivalence as resistance in Fatima Daas’s La Petite Dernière (The Last One), by Blase A. Provitola.
Available online: bit.ly/CFC-Vol-50-4
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A promotional graphic for Contemporary French Civilization, a journal published by Liverpool University Press. On the left, white text on a dark blue marbled background reads: “Devoted to all aspects of civilization and cultural studies in France and the Francophone world.” Below is the Liverpool University Press logo. On the right, a large blue book-cover–style panel displays the journal title “Contemporary French Civilization” in bold white text, with smaller red text beneath: “An interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of French-speaking cultures throughout the world.” Additional publication details appear in small white text at the bottom.
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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🐎 We are thrilled to announce that Medieval Warhorse has been nominated for the Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2026! 🌟

You can vote for the first ever systematic and integrated scholarly study of medieval warhorses spanning archaeology and history here: archaeology.co.uk/vote
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December 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Recently published in Ancient History & Classics | Dido's Tragedy: A Literary Commentary on Virgil's Fourth Aeneid is available now.

Find out more about this new form of commentary here ⬇️
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December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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📑 Most read in the latest issue of Revista Iberoamericana
‘Las madres de Plaza de Mayo y la interrupción de los fascismos transhistóricos’ by Andreea Marinescu.
Available to read online at: bit.ly/madresPlazaMayo
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A promotional banner for a special issue of the journal “Revista Iberoamericana.” On the left, large blue text reads “Special Issue,” followed by the Spanish title “Estéticas del autoritarismo latinoamericano” in white capital letters against a textured background. At the bottom left is the Liverpool University Press logo with the text “Liverpool University Press, Founded 1899.” On the right side of the banner is the cover of the journal, featuring abstract multicoloured artwork and text indicating Volume XCI, Number 293, October–December 2025. Vertical decorative elements appear to the right of the cover.
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Most read in Town Planning Review:
‘Understanding accessibility and disability in the planning profession: an examination of planners’ knowledge and practices’ by @s-biglieri.bsky.social, Robert McQuillan, Dustin MacDonald & Timothy Ross.
Available to read #OpenAccess at: bit.ly/inclusive-planning
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December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🏛️ New in Liverpool Studies in Ancient History | A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre is available now!

A comprehensive exploration of ancient theatre in Italy from its Greek origins through to the Augustan period and beyond, find out more here ⬇️
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December 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The book covers public and private buildings that reflect the various working and social lives of Irish people, including those that show the business acumen of migrants. It also explores buildings that supported informal networks – churches, pubs and community centres.

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December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Recently published in partnership with Historic England | Irish Emigration to England Explored through Buildings by Samantha Lyster is available now!

Find out more about the first book to look at how buildings have supported migration here ⬇️
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Promotional graphic for a book titled Irish Emigration to England Explored Through Buildings: The Green and the Grey by Samantha Lyster. The right side shows the book cover, featuring a photograph of a grand red-brick institutional building behind ornate black iron gates. The left side displays text that reads: “The book explores the symbiotic relationship between Irish migrants and built heritage in England.” At the bottom are the logos for Liverpool University Press and Historic England.
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Covering language, literature, thought, and culture since 1981, French Studies Bulletin is now part of LUP Open Languages — the Subscribe to Open initiative that aims to make new research Open Access, supporting authors and readers alike.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/LUP-Open-Lang
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December 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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All of our Historic England titles are included in the Winter Sale so now is the perfect time to have a browse of our new releases: bit.ly/HELUP
Enter discount code 27WINTER at checkout to receive your discount!
#Heritage #Architecture
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December 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Out now: Symbiotic Empires: Britain and East Asia in the Long Nineteenth Century, guest edited by @dicotofanwu.bsky.social.
This special issue explores Britain–East Asia encounters across diplomacy, culture, and empire. Online at: bit.ly/symbioticempires
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A promotional graphic for the special issue of Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. On the left is the journal’s cover featuring a vintage double-hemisphere world map. On the right, over a faded antique map background, text reads: “SPECIAL ISSUE — Symbiotic Empires: Britain and East Asia in the Long Nineteenth Century. Guest Editor: Di Cotofan Wu.” At the bottom are the Liverpool University Press and SGNCS logos.
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Most Read | Labour History
'The Archive, Digitisation and Labour’s History: An Introduction' by Diane Kirkby and Claire Lowrie
Read it online: bit.ly/LH-129-19
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December 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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We are offering up to 50% off print and ebooks in our Winter Sale!*
Use discount code 27WINTER at checkout on our website before Thursday 18th December 2025.

Browse our latest releases: bit.ly/AW25LUP

*Selected partner titles excluded from the sale.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM