🚨New Series Alert! 🚨 Series editors Louise Blanke and Anja Slawisch and I are excited to launch Edinburgh Studies in Classical Archaeology, which is seeking proposals for new books! All the deets: edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb... @edinburghup.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Next week I'll be down in Leeds for the #IMC2026! Do stop by the @edinburghup.bsky.social table to check out some great books at a great conference discount, and chat books with @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social and I. 📨Drop me an email ([email protected]) or DM to book a meeting 👋

Congratulations to Catherine-Rose Hailstone, whose book is now available to pre-order from Edinburgh University Press! *God, Demons, and Fear: Emotion, The Self, and Self-control in Gregory of Tours* edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-god-dem... @caterose.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social

👇Great post from @drdragases.bsky.social for the @edinburghup.bsky.social blog all about Late Roman history and what we're hoping to see from our exciting new series: euppublishingblog.com/2026/05/11/d...

💼 We are hiring! We are looking for two Commissioning Editors to join our Edinburgh team on a full-time, maternity cover contract, working on either the Literary Studies or the Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies list. Apply by Monday, 8 June. More details:

Super useful advice here!

New wall art up at the EUP office! It's books! 🥰

New on our blog! Margaret Mullett investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.

Excited to be heading to Manchester for the CA conference this weekend! Drop me an email (in bio) or message if you want to arrange a chat 👋 #CA2026

Greatest honour of my career so far. As founding editor I'm proud to announce @edinburghup.bsky.social Studies in Late Roman History. The world's first book series exclusively dedicated to the core domain of Late Antiquity. Like to discuss proposals or manuscripts? Reach out! tinyurl.com/dujjeuth

See you in July! With @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social too 👋

February zipped by so I've only just got my paws on the office copies of these two new beauties from our series Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity 📚

📚 On the blog! Q&A with the author of Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World. They discuss how Roman identity was redefined during two major transformations! 🤓 Delve in to find out more:

📖 New on the blog! 📜 Tatjana Sandon explores the lives of Roman freedwomen through inscriptions, family networks and daily experiences, revealing the overlooked stories of women once enslaved in #AncientRome. Have a read:

"This book should be consulted by anyone who desires to know what slavery at Athens was in the period of history we can best document, how it functioned, and how it shaped the economy" If that's you, read the Open Access book free in the link below! Full review👉 bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01...

Lovely review of Myth and History in Ancient Persia from BMCR 👉 bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01...

🎄officially offline for the rest of 2025🎄 huge thanks as always to my lovely colleagues, series editors, authors and reviewers and everyone else who've made this a great year. See you in 2026 🥳

This is great advice! 👇

All set up at the 2025 Leventis Conference! 👋Stop by for book chat and some great discounts on @edinburghup.bsky.social books. Lovely to be at a conference hosted by our pals at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 😊

Looking forward to this! I'll be there with some lovely @edinburghup.bsky.social books to show off on Friday and Saturday, do come say hi during the breaks 😁

👀 psst!  Our #StAndrewsDaySale is coming soon! ✍️ Sign-up to our mailing lists for details... https://edin.ac/33x7KRT

Our upcoming Honour in Aristotle’s Ethics is a re-evaluation of Aristotelian honour, linking ancient ethics, psychology and political theory - and it's free to read in Open Access! #OpenAccessWeek 📚 Find out more: 

Join us in celebrating #OpenAccessWeek with new titles in Classical Studies 🏛️ Coming soon we’ve got Rediscovering Greek Institutions, a timely, interdisciplinary look at ancient Greek politics that engages with political science. Keep an eye out for its release next month: 

Quick shout out to some fantastic recent @edinburghup.bsky.social Ancient History & Classical Studies books that are free to read for life, not just for #OpenAccessWeek 🤓 All of these and more are free to read here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/browse/books...

New book from Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia! What impact did Achaemenid models of kingship have on Alexander the Great and his successors? Stephen Harrison explores different ideologies of empire in the ancient Near-East. Out now from @edinburghup.bsky.social

👋Hello hello, we have a very exciting new series looking for book proposals! Full details in the link below.

Journal of Roman Studies review: "[This] is an admirably accessible volume... Many of these chapters will be top recommendations on my undergraduate and postgraduate reading lists. Overall, the volume is an impressive piece of work that makes a valuable and fresh contribution to the field."

We are delighted to be working with @creativeaccess.bsky.social to recruit for our publishing trainee. If you want to join our team, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, check out the following: edin.ac/3ILW2Kt

If you are like the many academic book writers I know who were never taught a systematic way to revise a manuscript (and can therefore feel the writing process dragging on longer than you want it to), my next free workshop on August 6th is for you courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/edit...

But wait, there's more! New on the @edinburghup.bsky.social bookshelf: Myth and History in Ancient Persia by Reza Shaghaghi Zarghamee, "another radiant entry in Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia"

Happy Friday! May I interest you in a free book? SLAVERY AND HONOUR IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD is out now in Open Access! This edited collection from David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro and Douglas Cairns explores the complexities of honour and dishonour in ancient Greek slavery.

It me 🤩 delighted to be on the Rising Star list alongside some amazing book folk!

Heading back after a fab time in St Andrews for the #CA2025. Conferences are one of the best bits of my job, and they're even better when they're in a sunny seaside town 🌊

The books are hidden away and sleeping while the ceilidh is on but I'll be BACK tomorrow morning for more books and more book chat ✨ #CA2025

Hello #CA2025 👋

Wildly excited to be hopping over to Fife for the #CA2025 this weekend 🌞

Lovely quick #IMC2025 trip! Thanks to everyone who stopped by for a chat 🤩 Next stop 🔜 #CA2025

Hello Leeds! Drop by for some book chat at the @edinburghup.bsky.social stand👋 #IMC2025

We're hiring! EUP is looking for a Key Account Manager to join our busy Sales team. This full-time, permanent role focuses on developing relationships with institutional libraries across the Americas. Find out more and apply 👉 edin.ac/4l2je5m

Hey kids! First time at the #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social? Here are some of Old Man Kramer's Hot Tips! #medievalsky

Lovely clutch of paperbacks out this month! Featuring: 🚶Sasanian settlement patterns ♀️Feminist epistemological frameworks ⚔️ Toxic masculinity 🏘️Byzantine social structure

🖼️"This combination of literary, theoretical and media-focused approaches results in a wide array of tantalizing analyses at times as compelling as the objects they scrutinize." fab new review of Amy Mars Lather's @edinburghup.bsky.social book: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Less than a month! See you soon, Leeds 🤩

See you there!

What’s so ancient about ancient philosophy? In a recent lecture, Anna Marmodoro, co-editor of Ancient Philosophy Today, argued for the continuing importance of ancient philosophy. Watch the lecture 👉 edin.ac/3YVDMUj Explore the journal 👉 edin.ac/44KoqFR

☀️New book day! Out this month from our Leventis Studies series: Rereading Plato's Republic, edited by Mary Margaret McCabe and Simon Trépanier. More: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-rereadi...

Our next Award is for the rising stars of publishing: The Ola Gotkowska Young Independent Publisher Award. And the winner is… Helena Heald of Edinburgh University Press. Well done! #IPA2025 @helenaheald.bsky.social

And shiny new paperbacks from our Ancient History & Classics list! (Not my list anymore, but I couldn't resist.) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-theocri... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-late-ro... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-los... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-junian-...

☀️ The sun is shining and our March books are here! @edinburghup.bsky.social

💡"informative and full of insights that illuminate the significance of gender in ancient ways of knowing" - great new review of Believing Ancient Women (edited by Megan Elena Bowen, Mary Hamil Gilbert & Edith Gwendolyn Nally) in this week's Classical Review 📖