📺'Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s' explores the creativity & contradictions of post-Soviet media, from glasnost to Putin. Essays show how TV & the internet shaped civil society before independence gave way to authoritarianism. bit.ly/4nwV0RR @michiganpublishing.bsky.social

Congratulations to our Honorary Fellow Mervyn Busteed on the paperback version of his book "The Sash on the Mersey - The Orange Order in Liverpool" @livunipress.bsky.social We were delighted to host the launch for the hardback in December 2023: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH4A... #academicsky #booksky

The Sash on the Mersey by Mervyn Busteed is now available in paperback! 'A strikingly revealing and original work' - Professor Don MacRaild, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange, London Metropolitan University Learn more here: bit.ly/SashontheMer...

Out now, 'Constructed Latinx(s) Identities' examines how media like film, literature, and TV shape Latinx identity. Through case studies, essays challenge colonial power, recover suppressed knowledge, and reimagine Latinx as diverse and evolving. @michiganpublishing.bsky.social bit.ly/4m7AJRK

The latest JRS special issue explores multilingual & transcultural narratives of health and illness in European literatures (1870s–1960s+). Read the introduction to the issue #OpenAccess. ➡️ bit.ly/JRS-Reading-Bodies @ilcs.bsky.social @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @profstevenwilson.bsky.social

Gin and the English: An Illustrated History by Paul Jennings is now available at the reduced price of £25, or £20 if purchasing directly from the LUP website! This well-illustrated book offers a lively and readable history of the spirit. bit.ly/GinJennings #Heritage #HistoricEngland

Most read in Labour History '“Selling Their Jobs?” Thatcherism, Voluntary Redundancy and Worker Resocialisation' by Greig Taylor & Matthew McDonald Read it online: bit.ly/LH-Thatcherism @drdrehistorian.bsky.social @hannahforsyth.bsky.social

🌍 All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers, says @lbnaylor.bsky.social. Naylor argues for care-centred, feminist approaches to geography, challenging the neoliberal academy and reimagining how we “write the earth.” ✊♀️ Find it here: bit.ly/4m1j79X @ugapress.bsky.social

🎉 Contemporary French Civilization celebrates 50 years! Marking this milestone, the editorial team reflects in a special blog post—and explore the 50th Anniversary Virtual Issue, available free to read for a limited time. @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social #FrenchStudies

🚢 The Evolution and Significance of the Powered Bulk Carrier by Roy Fenton is now available in paperback! This is the first work to cover in depth the full development of bulk carriers, ship types that have been highly significant in world trade for 170 years. Discover more: bit.ly/BulkCarriers

You can learn more about our now series, Translated Texts from Antiquity, here! ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...

📣 Free trials of Oxford University Voltaire are now available to libraries! On the LUP Blog, Alison Oliver and Gillian Pink (Voltaire Foundation) discuss the platform’s key features, its development journey, and what it offers to researchers and institutions. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

🏛️ Last week, @edithmayhall.bsky.social and @profarlenehh.bsky.social celebrated the launch of their book at the Houses of Parliament last Tuesday, hosted by Dr Peter Swallow MP! #AncientSky Discover more and read this #OpenAccess book here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Most read in Extrapolation 🔭 'Daniel Bell, Social Forecasting, and Science Fiction' by @sean-seeger.bsky.social & Daniel Davison-Vecchione Read it #OpenAccess via the LUP website: bit.ly/EXTR-Bell @amb42.bsky.social @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social

LSE Studies in Spanish History Online is the largest digital collection in English to explore the causes and effects of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, available to libraries as a one-off purchase and with perpetual access. Explore the full collection here ➡️ bit.ly/4dMDjJf

🌈 'Queer Throughlines' traces transnational Korean LGBTQ+ activism since the 1990s—mapping solidarity across Seoul & LA, from anti-war protests to church resistance, showing how queer movements weave community & political change across borders. bit.ly/4lRt1el @uofmpress.bsky.social

University of Michigan Press have an exciting variety of #KoreanStudies titles, both old and new. Dive into two of their latest seasonal additions! >>> 🧵

Peter Moore, author of 'Game Changer: Playing to win at Xbox, EA Sports and Liverpool Football Club', has been busy signing copies of his memoir at a Wisła Kraków event this week. If you're interested in attending one of Peter's events, we have two more coming up next month! bit.ly/LUPGameChanger

Yesterday at Ye Houses of Parliament my former PhD student and colleague Dr Peter Swallow MP hosted the launch of my book with Durham colleague Prof Arlene Holmes-Henderson promoting Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in secondary education. It was a joy.

📢 Free webinar | The Littman Library is delighted to partner with the Taube Center for the next instalment of #TJHTalks 🗓️ 17th Sept 2025 🎙️ A special session reflecting on the Littman Library’s contributions to Polish Jewish studies. 👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/TJHTalks

🍂 Michigan State University Press's Fall/Winter titles are now available to view on the LUP website -- why not take a look at this season's History list? 📖 bit.ly/4mv4bC8 #MSUP

One of the perks of being the book reviews editor for @global19c.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social is that I get to celebrate the wonderful work of friends & colleagues.

🚨I hold in my hand...🚨 ...an actual, physical copy of my new @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social book! Available to buy with a 35% discount using code Greenwood-Hau35 here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #PrivilegeandParticipation

Ahead of Print | 'Zola’s Une page d’amour: The Novelist as Japanese Artist' by Jennifer Yee, now available in French Studies ⬇️

New in the Proceedings of the British Academy series, ‘State-Making in an Age of Revolution’ reveals how governments across Europe expanded their reach after the 1848 revolutions through practical reform. Learn more through the link below ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4m7qKfb

We are pleased to announce LUP Open Planning 2026 ✨ With continued library support, we aim to once again make Town Planning Review & International Development Planning Review #OpenAccess. Learn more: bit.ly/LUPOpenPlanning @aupresses.bsky.social #UrbanPlanning

On the National Day of Catalonia, explore Catalonia’s literature, history & identity with a free issue of Catalan Review, published for the North American Catalan Society. Available online at: bit.ly/CATR-36-1 #Catalan @wviestenz.bsky.social @berlihe.bsky.social

University of Georgia Press have an exciting breadth of new and forthcoming titles this season, from true crime biography and cold case investigations to piracy, the Confederacy, and Black activism. Find all UGAP has to offer here: bit.ly/3HOVxz9 @ugapress.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

"The Banyamulenge Soldier: Genocide between Congo and Rwanda" examines how Banyamulenge soldiers’ narratives reveal the intertwining of violence, memory, and identity in the aftermath of genocide and ongoing conflict. Explore more here: bit.ly/47IlHOy @uofmpress.bsky.social

📚 At UK-Ireland PRC 2025 today? Stop by the Town Planning Review display table to browse copies of TPR & IDPR and learn more about LUP Open Planning, our subscribe-to-open initiative supporting open access to planning research. #UKIPRC2025 #urbanplanning

We are delighted to announce that libraries can now request an early access free trial of Oxford University Voltaire, a new digital scholarly edition from the Voltaire Foundation. Find out more > bit.ly/oxunivoltaire @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

At UK-Ireland PRC 2025 today? 📝 Join Town Planning Review co-editor John Sturzaker for a Meet the Editor session and consider submitting to TPR, a leading international urban planning journal. 🗓️ Wed 10 Sept | 4–5pm | Ulster University, York Street #UKIPRC2025 #urbanplanning

✨ Join us for ORCID’s Ask Me Anything: University Press Session on 30th of September! LUP's Clare Hooper (Director of Journals Publishing) and Natasha Bikkul (Journals Marketing Manager) will be on hand to answer your questions. 📌 Full details below ⬇

Learn more about this latest addition to our Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland book series here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #IrishHistory #C19

🎉 We’re proud to have launched LUP Open Languages A #SubscribetoOpen initiative aiming to make research in languages, literatures & cultures #OpenAccess. Thanks to partners & editors for their support. Find out more ⬇️ #S2O @frenchstudies.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social

Check out my article on serial surreal mannequins! Available ahead of print @frenchstudies.bsky.social. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

📚 'People of the Book' is the theme of this year’s European Days of Jewish Culture festival. To mark the occasion - and to celebrate 60 years of the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization - explore our special reading list and enjoy an exclusive 30% off all Littman books.

Most read in Studia Hibernica this week: 'Theatre in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century: the troubled 1840s' by Karina Holton Read it online: bit.ly/SH-Holton @ciarandunbarrach.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social @irishinstitute.bsky.social @fsg-dcu.bsky.social

🧵 🌍 We're happy to share two titles from Michigan State University Press's 'African History and Culture' series: "The Paradox of Protection" and "Urban Saniscapes", both available from 1st November here: bit.ly/4mvxV1G #MSUP

Happy birthday to Sir David Cannadine! 🎉 We're reading a newly published British Academy book, The British Aristocracy and the Modern World, which celebrates 35 years of Cannadine's triumphant The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. bit.ly/TaylorRidgway @britishacademy.bsky.social

📑 Most read in the latest issue of French Studies Susan Harrow’s review of ‘Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature’ by Helen Craske. Available to read online at: bit.ly/FS-Helen-Craske @frenchstudies.bsky.social @eparpillee.bsky.social #FrenchStudies

📢 Most read in Sculpture Journal this week 'Anarchist anti-imperialism, modernist domesticity: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s Maquette for a Large Basin' by Sean Ketteringham. Available online at: bit.ly/SJ-anarchist-art @hba-caa.bsky.social

Author Georgia Irby discusses her book, Pomponius Mela: Geography of the World, which is the first volume in the new Translated Texts from Antiquity series. Read more here:

Our CEO Anthony Cond, the Chair of LUP's Board of Directors Professor Georgina Endfield FBA, and the Chair of LUP's Editorial Advisory Board Professor Claire Taylor have all been appointed to #REF2029 panels. Find out more about @ref2029.bsky.social: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...

NEW blog post 🌿 How did lockdowns reshape housing priorities — from green space to local services? The authors of TPR’s latest #OpenAccess Featured Article share their insights. @oliviersykes.bsky.social #UrbanPlanning

Heading to UK-Ireland PRC 2025? 📢 Meet Town Planning Review co-editor John Sturzaker. TPR is a leading journal on planning, regeneration, housing & more. Discuss your work & find out how to make a submission to the journal. 🗓️ Wed 10 Sept 4-5pm | Ulster University #UKIPRC2025 #UrbanPlanning

Published this week, "Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries" explores how Detroit’s League of Revolutionary Black Workers emerged from the auto industry and 1967 rebellion, linking class, race, and radical struggle to ongoing movements today. bit.ly/4lLUSMR @ugapress.bsky.social

Pre-order "Crip Authority" today - Bearden explores how Renaissance writers used disabilities to transform consolatory literature into empowerment, challenging authority over time. bit.ly/4mUJHCo #DisabilityStudies @uofmpress.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

Plastered in History: Recasting the Story of Ancient Sculpture Beneath the grandeur of marble, the allure of bronze, and the solidity of terracotta, another material quietly shaped the art of the ancient Mediterranean...

The first eight books in our new partnership with ‪@livunipress.bsky.social have just been published – and with them, we are proud to offer new ‘delayed Open Access’. Find out more: https://bit.ly/46opK0r