In the first agreement of its kind, Liverpool University Press has become the inaugural university press partner of The Conversation UK (http://theconversation.com/uk), an independent source of news and views sourced from university academics and researchers and delivered direct to the public. Since its UK launch in 2013, The Conversation has brought the expertise of university academics … Continue reading
Expanding LUP: new staff, new Ireland office
As part of ongoing expansion, Liverpool University Press has made a number of new appointments: Clare Litt, Group Publishing Director for the Casemate Group, has been appointed Senior Commissioning Editor for Classics and Medieval Studies. Litt, an Oxford Classics graduate, was formerly Editor-in-Chief of Oxbow Books. Christabel Scaife, head of the Dublin office of the … Continue reading
The Fifteenth Abercrombie Lecture
The Fifteenth Abercrombie Lecture will take place on Thursday 23rd November 2017 at 5.30pm in Seminar Room 5, University of Liverpool Management School. The Abercrombie Lecture was founded to celebrate the contribution of Sir Patrick Abercrombie, one of the leading town and regional planners of the 20th Century who was Lever Professor of Civic Design … Continue reading
New Journals Agreement with Jisc
A new agreement for access to the Liverpool University Press Journals Collection is now available. Jisc Collections last had a journals agreement with LUP in 2011, at which time 13 journals were offered. LUP's journals portfolio has since expanded to 27 scholarly journals across the humanities and social sciences, of which 24 are included in this agreement. … Continue reading
Liverpool University Press to publish Studia Hibernica from 2016
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce that from 2016, it will be publishing the journal Studia Hibernica, edited from St Patrick’s College in Dublin. Founded in 1961, Studia Hibernica is devoted to the study of the Irish language and its literature, Irish history and archaeology, Irish folklore and place names, and related subjects. Its aim is … Continue reading