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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 5h

Most read in Modern Believing this week:
'Challenges for Theology in Settler Colonial Contexts' by Michael Mawson
Read it freely #OpenAccess online: bit.ly/MB-Mawson @modernchurch.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social @scholarpriest.bsky.social @victoriaturner.bsky.social @alisonrwebster.bsky.social

The social media graphic for Modern Believing comprises a background gradient in orange, overlaid with the journal cover to the right which comprises a bold block of orange on the bottom half of the journal cover, with a white upper half featuring the issue title Mission as Solidarity, Solidarity as Mission and the issue date in black serif font.

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Winner of the 2024 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, A. Muia's 'A Desert Between Two Seas' is set amid the ruins of 19th-c Baja missions and follows a guilt-stricken priest & a deaf pistolera as they seek redemption in a stark, haunted land.
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Promotional graphic for A Desert Between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories by A. Muia, published by University of Georgia Press. The book cover shows a desert landscape at sunset, with dark mountains and the silhouette of a mission or chapel against glowing orange and purple skies.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 1d

EVENT: Join us at @sotauol.bsky.social on 6/11/25 from 11am - 12:30pm for an ECR Publishing Roundtable with publishing professionals followed by an audience Q&A. Part of the #TerraqueousGlobe Conference @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social
Tickets & registration: bit.ly/Registration-TG🌍

ECR Publishing Roundtable, School of the Arts Library, University of Liverpool
11am - 12:30pm, 6th November 2025.
Designed for Early Career Researchers in the Arts and Humanities, the event will feature a Q&A and discussions from publishing professionals about both book and journals publishing more broadly.
Organised as a part of the Terraqueous Globe conference.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 1d

📣 LUP's Collections & Archives 2025-2026 catalogue is now available!

Discover our broad range of digital collections, archives, and open access initiatives:

bit.ly/collections-catalogue-2026

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 1d

One-third of Britain’s land still belongs to the aristocracy.

A new British Academy publication brings together a wide-ranging group of scholars to explore the place of landed gentry in twenty-first century Britain.

Get 20% off now on our website: bit.ly/3IVbkwT

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Copies of The British Aristocracy and the Modern World piled up on suede fabric. The cover features an aristocratic woman dressed in a long gown.

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 2d

'Arthurian Intertextualities' reveals how Malory’s Morte reworks earlier English poems, offering new views on Arthur, Guenevere, Launcelot & Palomydes. Tolhurst & Whetter rethink women, kingship, war, and defend Guenevere while highlighting Malory’s artistry.
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Misreading and Rereading Malory's Morte Darthur and the Alliterative and Stanzaic Mortes

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 2d

📖 Book Launch | 'Tale of Black Histories: A Translation and Critical Edition' by Edouard Glissant, translated and edited by Andrew Daily and Emily Sahakian

🗓️ 16th October 2025 at the University of Georgia
🎫 FREE to attend
👉 Find out more: bit.ly/3We26i8

Book Launch: "Tale of Black Histories" by Edouard Glissant, translated and edited by Andrew Daily and Emily Sahakian

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts will host a book launch for a new critical edition and translation of Tale of Black Histories, a play created by the Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant. This…

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 5d

🎭 'CosÌ fan tutte, An Opera of Mimetic Revelation'

Isabel Díaz-Morlán reads Mozart’s Così fan tutte through René Girard: tracing mimetic desire, tangled loves, and echoes of Ovid, Cervantes & Shakespeare, where words, drama & music expose rivalry, hypocrisy, and hidden truths. #MSUP
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Joe Greenwood-Hau @niceonecombo.bsky.social · 5d

Very nice to see my @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social Monograph included here!

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First books published under new partnership with Liverpool University Press – with new 'delayed Open Access'

Eight new British Academy books are the first to be published with Liverpool University Press as part of a new partnership this year.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 7d

📚 Out today (and look at that cover!) 'Jazz June' is a candid exploration of identity, family, and art. Through personal moments and reflections, the author traces his journey as a son, father, artist, and Black American.
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 6d

In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, we appreciate our collaboration with University of Georgia Press. They excel in publishing remarkable works on Civil Rights, Black culture, and 20th-century U.S. history.
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Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Celebrating #NationalPoetryDay and our 2026 collections – Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social, Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller, and Against Falling by Linda Anderson. Available to pre-order from Friday the 10th October! bit.ly/Pavilion26

Three book covers appear against a starry mountain night backdrop. Left: purple cover, Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston. Center: grey cover, Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller. Right: green cover, Against Falling by Linda Anderson. Each has a small domed building icon below, the Pavilion Poetry icon.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 6d

'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

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 6d

📚 Unlock a century of scholarship
Libraries subscribing to LUP Open Languages receive exclusive access to journal archives dating back as far as 1923 — while supporting Open Access to today’s research.
Find out more at: bit.ly/LUPOpenLanguages
#OpenAccess #S2O #SubscribetoOpen
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 7d

The new issue of French Studies Bulletin is now available, featuring Imogen Whalley’s R. Gapper Undergraduate Prize-winning essay on repetition and innovation in medieval French literature. Available online: bit.ly/FSB-Vol-46-4
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Social media banner announcing the new issue of French Studies Bulletin. On the left, blue text reads: “New Issue Out Now – Featuring the R. Gapper Undergraduate Prize-Winning Essay 2024”. Beneath are the logos of Liverpool University Press and the Society for French Studies. On the right, the journal cover is shown, with the title French Studies Bulletin in red and details of the latest issue (Volume 46 Number 4, October 2025), including article titles.

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Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social · 7d

So great to finally see this in print! My piece about Arthur C. Clarke's typewriter which is held in the Science Fiction Special Collections in Liverpool. It appears in "Collecting Stories", a volume by @livunipress.bsky.social about objects held in the cultural collections at the university.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 8d

Today we celebrate International Translation Day. To mark the occasion, we’ve curated a reading list featuring some of the translated works we publish, along with books and journal articles that delve into the art of translation 🌍📚

International Translation Day: Reading List

On the 30th September 2025, we celebrate International Translation Day - honouring the power of language to connect cultures and ideas. To mark the occasion, we’ve curated a reading list highlighting some of the translated works we publish, along with books that explore the art of translation.

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 9d

🎸 We're eagerly anticipating next week's release of "Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl." Dan DiPiero delves into the indie music revival by young, queer, feminist artists reworking 90s grunge and 2000s pop. @dandipiero.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social
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Promotional graphic for the book Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl by Dan DiPiero, published by University of Michigan Press. The book cover features an illustration of a person holding a guitar, with a colourful explosion of abstract shapes in red, blue, and purple bursting from their head. Background includes vertical colour bars in shades of red, purple, and blue.

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The Indexer @indexer.bsky.social · 8d

The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(3), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about Chinese language indexing, natural-language processing and indexing, the ASI 2025 conference and National Indexing Day 2025, and more!

The Indexer Home

The journal seeks to cover the full range of subjects, from articles at the cutting edge of new techniques to contributions discussing in a practical way the new tools available to indexers at all points in the technical spectrum or exploring the history of indexing.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 14d

📣 NEW: 'Odessa, Vienna and Jerusalem: Zionism, Performative Nationhood and Multinational Empires' by @ralexm.bsky.social examines Zionism within multinational empires and the performative nature of national demands within this economy.
Read it #OA: bit.ly/Marshall-MLO
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 9d

Find out more about this exciting new work in the news piece from @liverpooluni.bsky.social:
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/29/c... @livuninews.bsky.social

‘Collecting Stories’: new book brings University of Liverpool collections alive - University of Liverpool News

‘Collecting Stories’: new book brings University of Liverpool collections alive

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 9d

Published in partnership with @liverpooluni.bsky.social, the book includes 72 illustrations accompanied by lively and accessible text which illuminates connections between Liverpool, the University, and cultures across the world.
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The cultural collections of the University of Liverpool

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 9d

Collecting Stories: The cultural collections of the University of Liverpool publishes today! Edited by Katy Hooper, this beautifully produced book features 52 entries which tell the story of the growth of the University’s cultural heritage collections. bit.ly/LUPCollecting

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 9d

Proceeds from the book support the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail’s development and related community initiatives, and the project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 9d

Reveal is a unique geographical mapping of An Gorta Mór history across Liverpool's landscape, which includes powerful personal narratives and accompanies the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail.

Find out more here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Liverpool Irish Famine Trail: Reveal | Home

A creative exploration in revealing Liverpool’s connection with An Gorta Mór

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