As the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Spring Symposium has unfortunately been postponed until 2021, we wanted to share some details of our new titles which we were planning on bringing to the SPBS. With new titles in our Translated Texts for Byzantinists series, as well as Translated Texts for Historians, and our … Continue reading
Liverpool University Press publishes first audiobook
Liverpool University Press is pleased to announce the publication of its first audiobook: The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation. The audiobook is based on Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron’s fifth edition of the work, and will be available as a whole and also as the four individual poems in the … Continue reading
‘Why the French Hate Doggie Bags’ – In Conversation with Janet Beizer
'Why the French Hate Doggie Bags', first published in Contemporary French Civilization, Volume 42, Issue 3-4, examines the negative publicity attached to taking home leftovers from restaurants in France, and has a rising Altmetric score of 196. We spoke to the author, Janet Beizer, to find out more about the article. Firstly, could you tell … Continue reading
Testimonies from the front line of nineteenth-century British abolitionism
Mary Wills is the author of the recent Liverpool Studies in International Slavery publication, Envoys of Abolition, a new study of nineteenth-century British naval officers’ experiences of suppressing the transatlantic slave trade. In this blog post, Mary Wills highlights the wide cast of characters in Britain’s anti-slavery story with testimonies from naval officers which reveal … Continue reading
LUP announces new Medieval and Early Modern History series
Liverpool University Press is pleased to announce a new series in medieval and early modern history, led by series editors Marios Costambeys and Martin Heale (University of Liverpool). Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Belief and Culture will publish monographs on topics relating to belief and culture, across a wide period from late antiquity to … Continue reading
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