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Christabel Scaife
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Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies and Irish Studies @livunipress.bsky.social
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The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. This collection ranges from graveyard poetry and the gothic through Ní Ghríofa’s Ghost in the Throat, with incisive and new readings of the dead body
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The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature | Home
Christopher Cusack (Radboud University) has published widely on Irish and Irish-diasporic literature. His monograph The Great Famine in Irish and North American Fiction, 1892-1921 is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities
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Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale | Home
Matthew L. Reznicek is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has published widely on British and Irish romantic literature, and particularly on the intersection of health and illness in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year to buy LUP books - up to 50% off in our Winter Sale!
livunipress.bsky.social Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 6d
We are offering up to 50% off print and ebooks in our Winter Sale!*
Use discount code 27WINTER at checkout on our website before Thursday 18th December 2025.

Browse our latest releases: bit.ly/AW25LUP

*Selected partner titles excluded from the sale.
Winter sale promotional image with blue snowy background and a tree in the right corner. Text reads 'Up to 50% off in our Winter Sale' with four book covers below - Game Changer, Collecting Stories, Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in British Secondary Education, and Rosa the Alligator. LUP logo in white to the left.
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I intend to do a full-on photo shoot with these when I have some free time, but for now, this will do - author copies of my first book, Metafiction and Narratice Worlds in Science Fiction ( @livunipress.bsky.social ) have arrived! Over the moon, and can highly recommend LUP as publishers.
Three copies of Amanda Dillon’s book ‘Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction’ sit stacked on one another.
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Happy #WorkInPublishing Week! If you're interested in joining the world of publishing, staff members at LUP share what they love about their jobs and advice on getting into the industry 📚

Read more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pages/careers

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Post for Liverpool University Press promoting ‘Work in Publishing Week 2025.’ The top features the Liverpool University Press logo. Large text reads ‘Work in Publishing Week 2025’ inside a red-bordered box. Below, smaller text says: ‘Hear from staff members at LUP on what they love about their jobs, and advice on how to get into publishing.’ On the bottom left is an illustration of a person with short hair holding an open purple book in front of their face. A curved red arrow points toward the next image. Post for Liverpool University Press promoting ‘Work in Publishing Week 2025.’ The top features the Liverpool University Press logo. Large text reads ‘What does your job entail? What does a typical day look like?’ inside a red-bordered box. Below, smaller text says: “As a Senior Production Editor, I oversee the production process of academic books from the point the manuscripts are handed over by the Commissioning Editor to final publication. This means coordinating typesetters, proof-readers, indexers, authors, and printers; managing schedules to keep everything on track; and ensuring the work stays within budget. Costings and supplier quotes are a key part of the job. Sarah, Senior Production Editor' On the bottom right is an illustration of a person sat on a calendar working on a laptop. Post for Liverpool University Press promoting ‘Work in Publishing Week 2025.’ The top features the Liverpool University Press logo. Large text reads ‘What is your favourite part of the job?’ inside a red-bordered box. Below, smaller text says: '“Working with early career scholars to publish their first book – nothing beats being able to provide joyful moments of acceptance and then publication – and to then see their careers progress thanks to having their work published. Also the satisfaction of being involved in a book’s conception, development, and eventual release into the world.” Clare, Senior Commissioning Editor'. Below this, more text: '“I love all of the journals that we work with so getting to engage with the research that they publish is definitely my favourite part of my job. I also work with wonderful colleagues, and we all share the same goal with equal passion, so my working environment is really great.” Natasha, Journals Marketing Manager'. On the bottom right is an illustration of a person working on a laptop. Post for Liverpool University Press promoting ‘Work in Publishing Week 2025.’ The top features the Liverpool University Press logo. Large text reads ‘What advice or tips would you give for anyone interested in joining the publishing world?’ inside a red-bordered box. Below, smaller text says: '“Keep abreast of the key issues facing the sector you are interested in – the best interviews I have seen (and I’ve seen a lot) included specific examples of connecting LUP to issues such as AI, Open Access mandates, accessibility, library budgets, shrinking of the market etc. It shows enthusiasm and diligence, both of which are needed to work at LUP.” Jennie, Director of Sales and Marketing'. On the bottom left is an illustration of a person reading a book.
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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🚀 Discover new and forthcoming ebooks in Liverpool Science Fiction Studies Online, a digital collection offering a broad perspective on a variety of themes relating to #SFStudies. Available to libraries as a one-off purchase and with perpetual access.

Browse the full collection ➡️ bit.ly/lsfso
The LUP logo in white is displayed in the left-hand corner of the image. Next to it and towards the right, there is a blue text box with white text inside which reads 'LIVERPOOL SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES ONLINE'. Underneath there are four book covers lined up next to each other: 'The Science Fiction of Defeat', 'Science Fiction and the Modern World', 'Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction', 'Reading Chinese Science Fiction in the Age of Techno-Nationalism'. Underneath the covers is a blue text box which spans the length of the image with white text inside that reads, 'Perpetual Access | No Online Hosting Fees | 3 Years' Worth of Future Content'. The background of the image is a blurred section of the cover image from 'Science Fiction and the Modern World'.
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Excellent news - congratulations Cathy! @crossphd.bsky.social
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We are thrilled to share that Educating the Romantic Poets has made it onto the shortlist for the Marilyn Gaull Book Award! Congratulations to Catherine E. Ross (@crossphd.bsky.social) on this very deserved nomination.
Book cover of Educating the Romantic Poets by Catherine E. Ross, part of the Romantic Reconfigurations series. The cover shows a young boy in nineteenth-century attire holding an open book. Text beside the cover explains that the book explores how grammar schools and Oxford and Cambridge influenced Romantic-period literature.
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Reappraisals in Irish History | The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 by Antonia Hart is available now!

The first book to tell the story of the many entrepreneurial Irish women who ran businesses in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, find out more here ⬇️
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Promotional image for the book "The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850–1922: Business as Usual" by Antonia Hart, published by Liverpool University Press. The right side shows the book cover featuring a vintage photograph of books and a pawnbroker's license for Margaret J. McNally, framed behind glass. The title and subtitle are in white text over an orange background. The left side of the image contains a text overlay: "Reveals the remarkable extent and impact of female entrepreneurship in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland." The Liverpool University Press logo appears in the top-left corner.
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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🎉 @hoireabhard.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social Publication Prize in Irish History, for his book The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion. Congratulations, Seán!

Learn more about the book here ⬇️
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Book cover image for "The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion" by Seán Ó Hoireabhárd, published by Liverpool University Press. The background features medieval manuscript illustrations and script. Text on the right reads: "Winner NUI Publication Prize in Irish History 2025." The Liverpool University Press logo and founding date (1899) are also included.
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Dr Miranda Melcher recently chatted with @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde!

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October 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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'Kamila Shamsie' is now available in Writers and Their Work: The Digital Collection, a perpetual access resource offering over 400 rigorous critical examinations of the works of distinguished writers and schools of writing.

Browse the collection ➡️bit.ly/writers-and-their-work-digital-collection
October 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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@ssnci.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social Finally got my own copies! Hard to think that this all started with a conference in June 2022! Thanks to Arlene and Cathal, all the contributors and to our top secret peer reviewers #ssnci #irishstudies #conflict #Ireland
September 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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SSNCI members are now starting to receive their FREE copy of our latest conference volume: New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century edited by Paul Huddie, Cathal Billings, Arlene Crampsie
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New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century | Home
Paul Huddie is an ERC Research Project Manager at the University College Dublin Centre for War Studies and a historical researcher interested in war and society, principally within the long nineteenth century.
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September 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Event | Join the School of English and Digital Humanities ‪@ucc.ie‬ on Wednesday, 10th September, for a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.

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Green Carnations: Remembering Eibhear Walshe
The School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC, invites you to a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.
August 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Back in Galway in glorious sunshine for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference! Come to the LUP table for discounted books or to talk about our book series Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment:
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August 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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New in paperback | Down from London focuses on reading, literary genre and seaside resorts between the 1840s and the 1930s. As the railway network developed, debates about ‘seaside reading’ intensified and inflected the development of new forms of fiction.

Find out more here:
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Promotional image for the book Down from London: Seaside Reading in the Railway Age by Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton. The cover features a painting of a woman reading by the seaside. Text highlights the book’s focus on seaside reading from the 1840s–1930s.
August 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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If anyone has a spare ticket for sale for Comic Con in Dublin (Saturday), we’d love if you could drop us a line! Many thanks.
August 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Available now | The latest volume in the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland series, this book is the first dedicated study exploring the theme of Irish conflict, broadly defined, during the long nineteenth century.

Discover more here: bit.ly/NPCINC
Promotional graphic. On the left, the book cover for New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. Along the bottom right, white text on a purple background reads 'An exciting new approach to the study of Irish conflict in the long nineteenth century.' In the bottom left corner, the LUP logo.
July 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Lovely to catch up with so many LUP authors at the IASIL conference in Galway. Come and visit our book table for a 50% discount and/or a chat about publishing with us!
July 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Great to be in Birmingham attending the World Congress of @global19c.bsky.social. If you’re here, do come by the book stand and find out more about publishing with @livunipress.bsky.social!
July 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Our Summer Sale starts today with up to 50% off our books* when purchased via the LUP website. Use discount code 27SUMMER at checkout before Sunday 20th July to receive your discount.
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*Excludes selected partner titles.
Four cover images to the left of the image - Ady, Black Sun, Faith Buildings in the City of London by Billy Hurley Reading, Medieval Warhorse, and poetry collection Archivum. The background is a blue sky with several colourful hot air balloons. Text in white reads 'Up to 50% off in our Summer Sale' and the LUP logo in white is in the bottom right of the image.
July 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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All set up for English Shared Futures in the Huntingdon Room at King’s Manor - come and browse our books!
July 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Just arrived in beautiful York for the English Shared Futures conference. Looking forward to tomorrow!
July 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM