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The sacred work: Galsworthy's advocacy for WWI veterans
POSTED BY CIRCULATING NOW ON NOVEMBER 10, 2014 IN COLLECTIONSBy Jeffrey S. ReznickThis Veterans Day is the first to occur during the four-year centenary anniversary of World War I. As media outlets...
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BOOK LAUNCH William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Congratulations to the editor, Charles Mollan, and the long list of contributors on the publication of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Astronomy and the castle in nineteenth-century IrelandThey...
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MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS and THE FIRST WORLD WARIntroduction Manchester University Press continued to publish during the First World War, and some of its output was clearly directed towards...
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Britain's lost revolution?
With the upcoming publication of Britain's lost revolution? author, Daniel Szechi, has written a blog post regarding the subject and the book. Should Scotland be an independent nation? The Scots...
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Kudos
Manchester University Press is very pleased to announce a new partnership with Kudos. Kudos is a free web-based service that helps researchers and authors maximize the visibility and impact of their...
View ArticleGreece- The shape of things to come
In the aftermath of the Greek general election, which put SYRIZA, an anti-austerity left wing party, into power in coalition with far-right Independent Greeks, Dimitris Papadimitriou Professor of...
View ArticleWonder Women
The Wonder Women 2015 festival begins soon, and Manchester will play host to a really exciting range of cultural events. MUP’s list, meanwhile, is full of Wonder Women. Alongside backlist gems such as...
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Can you help us find a copyright holder?
We're asking our authors, readers and friends in the community at large to look at this map, which we'd like to use for a book project. If you know where it comes from, or who photographed it, or any...
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On the history of history teaching…
Debate about the teaching of history is never far away. The former Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, has sought since 2010 to reshape the history curriculum in schools by bringing in more...
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England in 1820
What can we learn from looking at England in 1820? On the one hand, a great deal, but having said that, our understanding of this period has been hobbled by habitual Anglo-centricity. Even broadening...
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Greece vs. the Eurozone
By Costas Simitis The new Greek government that took office in January 2015 made a commitment during the election campaign that Greece would stay in the Eurozone. At the same time, it also declared...
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Making oneself at home: domestic life in the colonies of the British Empire
By Dianne LawrenceThe people over the road are moving out, the whole kit and caboodle: the chairs and beds, the IT paraphernalia, cat-basket, books, tele’ and lawn mower. In the year I’ve lived here...
View ArticleBOOK LAUNCH The BBC’s ‘Irish Troubles’ Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland
***Author Professor Robert Savage is available for interviews in advance***Friday, May 29th, 6pmTrinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College DublinThe BBC’s ‘Irish Troubles’ Television, Conflict and...
View ArticleMUP to acquire forward collection from Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Manchester University Press is pleased to announce that it has acquired 58 forward titles from Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Earlier this year, Bloomsbury Academic took the decision to cease commissioning...
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Emile and Isaac Pereire
By Helen DaviesWhy do the lives and careers of Emile Pereire (1800–75) and his brother Isaac (1806–1880) fascinate us? Certainly, their achievements as railway entrepreneurs and bankers were...
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BOOK LAUNCH Grown but not made
Congratulations to Edward Juler, who launched his new title Grown but not made last week at The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Edward Juler speaking at the event This title is the first detailed...
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THE RESPONSE TO ‘ISLAMIC EXTREMISM’ THAT GOVERNMENTS DON’T WANT TO HEAR
By Sarah Glynn, author of Class, ethnicity and religion in the Bengali East End Almost every day we hear the question asked: why are people turning to ‘Islamic extremism’? But in mainstream discussion,...
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Oratory and the Labour Leadership Election
By Andrew S. Crines, British Politics LecturerUniversity of LiverpoolOne of the most fundamental necessities of a potential leader is the ability to communicate a political message to as broad an...
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The Sociology of Unemployment: A choice between hard labour or destitution?
Tom Boland and Ray Griffin, authors of The sociology of unemployment have a new article in The Irish Examiner this week...Since 2012 social welfare in Ireland has been radically reformed in ways that...
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Celebrating Women's History
Here at MUP we are getting excited about the release of Suffragette, starring Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan. And to celebrate, we are offering 20% off a selection of our women's history titles.To...
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Open Access Week - James Baldwin Review
By Justin A. Joyce and Douglas FieldJames Baldwin Review is proud to announce the publication of its inaugural volume. James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual, peer-reviewed journal that brings...
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Refractions of Bob Dylan
To celebrate Bob Dylan coming to Manchester, we are offering Refractions of Bob Dylan at a special price of £10*!To take advantage of this fabulous discount simply return your completed order form to...
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Happy Halloween!
No tricks, just treats from MUP this Halloween! Enjoy 20% off the above reads.To take advantage of this spooktacular discount simply return your completed order form to our distributors at the address...
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Peter Barry, author of the landmark MUP book, Beginning theory, reflects on...
By Peter BarryI am delighted to be asked to do a blog piece on ‘BT at 20’, and also struck by an echo of how BT started, around 1982. At the time I was teaching at LSU College in Southampton. We never...
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Ben Bernanke and Wall Street Executives
By Dr Oonagh McDonald CBEIn a widely quoted interview with USA Today, Bernanke said that ‘It would have been my preference to have more investigations of individual actions because obviously everything...
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