Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce that Prof. Francis Leneghan was appointed as Series Editor of the renowned series Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies (EMTS) earlier in 2025. This announcement was delayed as a mark of respect for Professor Vincent Gillespie, who is greatly missed by all at LUP and the EMTS editorial team. Prof. Leneghan joins co-editor Prof. Eddie Jones, following the retirement of Prof.

Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain’s great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a modest Quaker teacher who never ventured more than a few miles from his home in Philadelphia: Anthony Benezet. While Benezet was buried in an unmarked grave, his fingerprints are all over the extinction of the Atlantic slave trade and the gathering strength of America’s own burgeoning abolitionist movement. He was a figure of global importance, “a saint,” Garry Wills called him, a great bearer to the rest of the world of the American ideals (no matter how compromised) of equality and liberty.

The editors of Town Planning Review (TPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in TPR 96.6. ‘The urgency of planning megacities in the Global South in the next decade’, by Dede…

A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI

Ahead of the 40-year anniversary of Continuity and Change, the journal’s editors share a special call for papers.

The University Press Redux conference returns to Liverpool on March 17th-18th, 2026. Hosted by Liverpool University Press, in association with ALPSP, and with a programme committee drawn from a num…

This special issue of the Journal of Romanian Studies, Heroes or Villains? Democracy, Discourse, and New Actors in Romanian Politics, offers a focused examination of Romania’s rapidly shifting poli…