From a ‘Printing and Stationery Committee’ in 1899 to an award-winning, independent academic publisher today – home to thousands of books, some of the world’s first subject-specific scholarly journals, and a number of impressive digital collections – Liverpool University Press has accomplished a great deal in 125 years. Innovative and adaptable, LUP remains at the … Continue reading
Taking a long time to (re)think: developing new approaches to slavery and freedom in Brazil
Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888 examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about them, and revises interpretations of the role of reproduction and gender within them. In this blog … Continue reading
LUP Appoints New Series Editor for Greece & Rome Live
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Hamish Williams, University of Groningen, as Series Editor of Greece & Rome Live. The series was originally founded by Bristol Phoenix Press twenty years ago, publishing popular and much-used volumes such as Gideon Nisbet’s Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture, Sian Lewis’ Greek … Continue reading
Walking as Methodology: Tracing post-conflict Belfast on foot
Only 20 years old when she first set foot on Northern Irish soil as part of a university exchange, Elizabeth DeYoung (now Dr. DeYoung) spent months getting accustomed to the paths, people, and pubs of Belfast. It wasn’t until her return, years later, during a chance conversation with an old landlord, that she learned of … Continue reading
Exorcism and an Incubus: An Unusual Anecdote in Bede’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke
Best known as the author of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede (d. 735) also penned works on science, as well as sermons, poetry and hagiography. He wanted, however, to be remembered primarily as a commentator on the Bible – one who ‘followed in the footsteps of the Fathers’ to expound the sacred … Continue reading
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