To celebrate hitting 5000 followers on Instagram, we're giving away a bundle of our books as well as an MUP branded tote bag to one lucky winner. Find out more here: www.instagram.com/manchester_u... #booksky

We’re delighted to have @odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social launching their new book 'Folklore' at @waterstones.bsky.social #Leeds, in conversation with fellow author Stu Hennigan. 25th September Get your tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/folkl... #booksky

Handily this book post arrived just as I finished my current read, really looking forward to this Thanks @manchesterup.bsky.social

It is publication day for Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance @manchesterup.bsky.social! Thank you so much @siobhanmup.bsky.social for believing in this project. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

Also publishing today is Strange matter: Medieval disruptions of time edited by Bleisteiner, Hartmann and Johnston which offers exciting new perspectives on the premodern fascination with materiality + the ways in which the Middle Ages experienced time manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175960/

Happy official publication day to @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social ! Her book Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance: Typologies of violence and desire is now available and I can confirm it's a fascinating read manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

In the wild!! (i.e. on my mum's sofa)

Publishing next month, 'Folklore' by @odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social is a gripping new guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore. As two leading experts they provide the definitive guide to British folklore past and present. #FolkloreThursday #booksky

What do #MeToo and Jane Austen have in common? More than you might think. In her debut book, @thezhm.bsky.social deep-dives into classic novels, to unveil a quiet feminist movement that still resonates today. Because every novel about marriage is also a novel about consent. #booksky

📣 We're hiring! MUP are looking for a Marketing Coordinator to elevate our Academic History lists. ➡️ Marketing/publishing experience ➡️ Interest in History & Art History ➡️ Passionate about delivering multi-pronged campaigns Full-time, hybrid role in MCR, £26,444-£29,605 tinyurl.com/bdfxz77f

Wonderful news on the day before I fly to NYC to work on my new MSCA project EduMoney @fordham.edu 🤩 I am grateful to @manchesterup.bsky.social for their incredible job 🤗 Godspeed you, baby! 🥹🎉

Stuck in New York with a whole new project, but glad that a part of me still made it to @imc-leeds.bsky.social this year! If you’re there, go check out my new book! Sad to miss the ritual author & book photo, though.

Good morning from our booth at @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Come and browse our books and say hello to the @manchesterup.bsky.social team #LeedsIMC2025

Are you ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social? We are! Catch commissioning editor @siobhanmup.bsky.social at our stand all week to talk all things Medieval at MUP 👋 AND get 30% off all our essential Medieval titles while the conference runs - browse the reading list ⬇️ tinyurl.com/v86xj9vn #imc25

1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓 Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions. A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... #Renaissance #OpenAccess

This week we conclude our review of the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today we feature 'Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century, bit.ly/4esfJ5C by Fiona Smyth 1/2

@manchesterup.bsky.social will be returning to the #IMC2025 Bookfair🎉 📚 😊 Their collection of medieval titles are always popular, so don't miss a chance to have a look at what they are offering this year! 😊 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk @manchester_university_press #MedieavlSky #SkyStorians

Sometimes a book comes along that you just know is going to transform how you think about the world: this is one of them @manchesterup.bsky.social

50% off all our books! You know your bookshelf can handle a few more if you double stack....

The Summer Sale starts now ☀️ Get 50% off EVERYTHING until the 7th July. Yep, we said everything. Unlock with code: Sun50 Had your eye on any of our newest hardbacks, or Academic New in Paperbacks? Now's your chance 👇 Browse by subject at the link in bio 🔗 #booksky #academicsky

Librarians looking for a new Medieval Collection - buy ours and get 6-months free access to both #DebatingMedievalEurope textbooks 👀 Take a look at MUP's Medieval Collection here ⬇️ www.manchesterhive.com/collection/m...

#DebatingMedievalEurope Vol. 2 is out TODAY! This new volume delves into the central and later middle ages to serve as an entry point for studying and teaching medieval history. Vol. 1 was CHOICE recommended - pick up both books for £29.99 each now 📗 🌟 tinyurl.com/4sjv8cw4

Attending #GothicCrossroads today? Checkout these #Gothic goodies on our stand, including these beauties 👇 Not in Manchester? Explore our reading list for new #GothicStudies #books, series info and discounts 👇https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/06/18/gothic-studies-reading-list-2025

A new Kenwood exhibition shines a light on the American 'dollar princesses', and features eighteen John Singer-Sargent portraits. Jean Strouse's latest book 'Family Romance' gives a masterful glimpse into the artist's life and work. via @theweek.com: theweek.com/culture-life...

Replay my book launch event for Writing Creatively for Work or Study with @manchesterup.bsky.social 📚 ✔️ Learn how creative techniques can power up your professional writing ✔️ Try writing exercises ✔️ Hear questions answered 🎥 youtu.be/rXSb714gfJg #CreativeWriting #CRMethods

Out Now The latest edited work from Adekeye Adebajo - @theguardian.com journalist and author of The Pan-African Pantheon. The Black Atlantic's Triple Burden sweeps across continents and centuries, examining the continuities of European slavery and colonialism and calls for reparative justice.

"This is thus the story of the birth of the modern capitalist system and a Black Atlantic that has shaped global trade, finance, consumer tastes, lifestyles and fashion for over five centuries." Read an extract from The Black Atlantic's Triple Burden in @sundaytimessa.bsky.social 👇

Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free? Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods. Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky

If you published your first book in French history in 2024, you might like to submit it for the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize, deadline 31 July 2025 and more details here: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/ssfh-book-pr... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈 Editor of our newest series 'Queer & Trans Histories', Matt Cook, gave his inaugural lecture at @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social‬ last night - attended by our Early Modern editor @siobhanmup.bsky.social Got a proposal for the QTH editors? Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...

While we're celebrating #icms2025, check out our forthcoming title from the #MMLC series ⬇️ 'SAGA EMOTIONS' ed. by @garethlloydevans.bsky.social, @profcarolyne.bsky.social & Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir Coming to manchesterhive.com in June! #academicsky @kzooicms.bsky.social

Heading to #icms2025? @kzooicms.bsky.social We'll be there with @siobhanmup.bsky.social and all our newest medieval titles! 🙌 Get 30% off our essential #medievalstudies titles throughout the conference - browse the reading list here and use code EVENT30 at checkout:

Do visit the MUP @manchesterup.bsky.social stall at Kalamazoo for our latest titles! @kzooicms.bsky.social @siobhanmup.bsky.social

Historian friends and colleagues! Please read, share and consider signing this letter from historians to UK MPs urging them to speak out in support of trans rights and avoid repeating mistakes that led to widespread discrimination and violence against LGBTQ+ people in the past. 🗃️

Out now! Speculative endeavors, Cultures of knowledge and capital in the long nineteenth century By Selina Foltinek Karin Hoepker and @katrinhorn.bsky.social Analyses insider information, rumour, gossip and slander in #C19th #AmericanSociety ⬇️ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182159/

🎭Unlock unlimited access to top-tier research on #WilliamShakespeare and his contemporaries! Our #Literature and #Theatre Collection now features 100+ titles on #Shakespeare Celebrate #TheBard's 461st birthday TODAY, enjoy 30% off until 31/07/25! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/04...

New in our Studies in Early Modern Irish History series ☘️ 'Beyond the Pale and Highland Line', ed by. Simon Egan - offers new insights into the history and culture of the Gaelic-speaking world from the mid-15th century through to the reign of James VI & I. Out now! Find it on the hive 🐝

New in the Jacobite Studies series ✨ The Jacobites and the grand tour by @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social - the first monograph to fully examine the intersecting networks of Jacobites and travellers to the continent. Published today in partnership with the JST @funkyplaid.bsky.social #Jacobites

'Tony Kushner brings new insights to Jewish history that extend over centuries and continents. The Jewish pedlar is a remarkable achievement.' -- David Feldman, Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism 'The Jewish pedlar', publishing May 2025. #booksky

Delighted to see this excellent new book from Ben Jackson out this week from the Gender in History series at @manchesterup.bsky.social. Historians of the 18thc, Britain, or masclinity or material culture, here's one for you!

I heard something good was coming at @manchesterup.bsky.social ... @manmetuni.bsky.social

'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:

Congrats! 🥳 Check out the recording of our recent book event with Samuel Fullerton to learn more about this prize-winning work! 👏👏👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZ1...

⚡️ Big news for our Politics, Culture and Society series Author Samuel Fullerton has won the #PCCBS 2025 Book prize for his book 'Sexual politics in revolutionary England'. Available on the manchesterhive now 🐝📕 #EarlyModernStudies #BritishHistory @thenacbs.bsky.social @siobhanmup.bsky.social

Tomorrow at the Oxford Literary Festival, don't miss leading LGBTQ historian Matt Cook as he tells the story of queer British history away from the bright lights of London. 2pm Tickets: oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e... #Oxford #booksky

'Material Masculinities' will be out in a couple of months! A labour of love, & sometimes hatred, it's about what does it mean to be a man and to possess things in the tumults of the eighteenth century. available to pre-order and 30% off at MUP manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/

Excited to be at @esshc.bsky.social conference this week! Come by the MUP stall to see all our lovely new titles and talk books 📚

We’re at the #RenSA25 and #Shax2025 conference this week! Stop by table 4 to say hi to @mlhouston.bsky.social and @siobhanmup.bsky.social Not attending? Visit our #Renaissance and #EarlyModern reading list to find out how to buy discounted #books bit.ly/4hSGIIj #RenTwitter @saaupdates.bsky.social

See the latest additions to our Medieval & Early Modern History list ⬇️ From slave trading in the Early Middle Ages to the currency of Florence in the Middle Ages - new titles out now! @slocatelli.bsky.social @siobhanmup.bsky.social #MedievalStudies #EarlyModern #MUP