In Ireland, 1st February is St Brigid's Day, honouring St Brigid of Kildare and marking the beginning of spring. The holiday is also used to celebrate Irish women. Here, author of Irish Emigration to England Explored through Buildings, Samantha Lyster, discusses the impact Irish women had on English architecture. St Patrick’s Day is a fixture … Continue reading
The 2026 Free Issues: Read a free issue of each journal
We are pleased to share the 2026 Free Issues. Each year, we make one issue from each of our journals free to read, showcasing the range of disciplines, approaches, and scholarly communities represented across the Press.
Three Leading Journals to Move from Cambridge University Press to Liverpool University Press in 2026
Liverpool University Press is proud to announce that it will become the new publisher of three distinguished academic journals—Continuity and Change, arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, and Arabic Sciences and Philosophy—from 2026, following their longstanding publication with Cambridge University Press.
Chain Stores on the British High Street
Chain Stores in the Golden Age of the British High Street by Kathryn A Morrison is the latest book to publish in our Historic England imprint. This new publication examines the history of multiple retailing through the prism of its shops and stores, arguing that gigantic enterprises like Marks & Spencer, Woolworths and Burton created the character … Continue reading
The Architecture of Steam
The Architecture of Steam: Waterworks and the Victorian Sanitary Crisis by James Douet weaves for the first time architectural and social history with industrial and engineering progress to show how waterworks pulled nineteenth-century towns back from the Sanitary Crisis that menaced civilized urban life. To celebrate this new Historic England publication, the author has put together … Continue reading