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Excited to dive into my new reading material from MUP @manchesterup.bsky.social @carolinelenette.bsky.social @claireblencowe.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to see this 🤩 Thank you to all of the wonderful booksellers, fellow authors, friends, colleagues and family who have championed The Housewife this year. And of course to the wonderful @manchesterup.bsky.social & @uoy-sociology.bsky.social I feel very lucky!

Selected for their excellence in scholarship and novel treatment of their chosen subjects, these books represent the best-of-the-best of academic publishing.

Congratulations to our authors!

#BestOf2025 #AcademicPublishing

Promotional image for the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles of 2025 by Manchester University Press. Four book covers sit on a blue and black gradient background with gold confetti. White Manchester University Press logo in bottom centre of image.

Best of 2025!🏆

We're thrilled to announce the four MUP books selected by @choicereviews.bsky.social as Outstanding Academic Titles for 2025:

The return of the housewife (@emmahcasey.bsky.social)
Global Marxism
Youth and sustainable peacebuilding (@hmberents.bsky.social)
Readers and mistresses

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Manchester University Press - Global Marxism Global Marxism - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Global Marxism by Simin Fadaee

🎉'Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics' written by Simin Fadaee, has been selected as one of CHOICE’s outstanding academic titles for 2025
@manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
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Christmas shopping for your witchy bestie, folklorist friend or someone in your life who just loves myths & legends?
Get 40% OFF these three titles (and more) on our website until December 23rd. Order ASAP to guarantee Christmas delivery.
#FolkloreThursday #booksky
@folklorethursday.bsky.social

On Thursday 11 December I'm hosting a talk by @dudleymarianna.bsky.social who will present her new book, Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain, to the Economic and Social History seminar series at Glasgow University.

Kicking off at 11am in 42 Bute Gardens, room 717. All welcome.

Me, in a merman t-shirt holding a box of the paperback version of my book Queer As Folklore!

Today I opened a box... of me!!!

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Queer As Folklore is back in shops and available online from @manchesterup.bsky.social!

A festive flyer for the 40% discount on books published by Manchester University Press.

If you're after a festive gift or want to treat yourself @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 40% discount on Songs of Seven Dials at the moment.

A new history of London and the 1920s and 1930s for the knockdown price of £12: what's not to like?

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Christmas Gift Guide 2025 - Manchester University Press All of the titles below are included in our Christmas Sale promotion, shop with 40% off until the 23rd December 2025. Simply click the covers to shop, discount applies automatically at checkout. If yo...

Offer runs until 23 Dec, though you'll need to order by 17 Dec to guarantee delivery by Christmas if you're in the UK.

There are loads of other lovely books in the @manchesterup.bsky.social Christmas Gift Guide 2025 as well

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The Regency Era and Consent Podcast Episode · Vulgar History: Regency Era · 12/03/2025 · 1h 6m

On the latest episode of the @vulgarhistory.bsky.social author @thezhm.bsky.social discusses how her research into regency novels revealed a quiet feminist movement that still resonates today.
Listen on Apple Podcasts here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
'Courting Disaster' is out now! #booksky

Arch-vent Day 3 and we’re joining @dominicmhinde.bsky.social as he travels Scotland in search of a sustainable future in his book ‘Drifting North’ published by @manchesterup.bsky.social

Think twice before copying Denmark’s asylum policies A migration researcher based in Denmark explains the downsides of its “zero asylum” policy and returns system.

www.theconversation.com/think-twice-...

It's been two weeks since the British government revealed plans to emulate Denmark's asylum & immigration system - Michelle Pace says that they should see it as a cautionary tale.

Read her piece for @theconversation.com👇
& catch her on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social this Saturday, 17:45 GMT📻

BRAND NEW! A ground-breaking exploration of how art responds to democratic crisis.

As today's democracy finds itself in crisis, an incisive group of art historians and theorists investigate the relationship between art and democracy since the 1990s.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177544/

culture is bad for you is £6:59! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177810/

Oxford Literary Festival 2026 | Oxford Literary Festival Oxford Literary Festival 2026

Oxford Literary Festival is back in March 2026 and we're thrilled to have a number of authors speaking about their books:
24th- Carol Chillington Rutter and Melissa Butcher
25th- Matt Cook & Rebecca Jennings
26th- Vince Cable
28th- Andrew Monaghan
Tickets: oxfordliteraryfestival.org #booksky

Took Electric Wind to meet some electric wind ⚡️ I’m out in Norway teaching on an energy humanities PhD course and we went to a wind farm today ☺️ @manchesterup.bsky.social

Roundtable with editors and authors of In solidarity, under suspicion The British far left from 1956 (Manchester University Press, 2025

Join Armand Azra bin Azlira, Eveline Lubbers, Hazel Perry and myself at 5.30pm (GMT) online, as we speak to the IHR Contemporary British History seminar (@cont-brit-hist.bsky.social) about our chapters in 'In solidarity, under suspicion' (@manchesterup.bsky.social)

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Listen! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social spoke to @tricksterprince.bsky.social about his brilliant new book “Songs of Seven Dials: An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London” newbooksnetwork.com/songs-of-sev...

YouTube video by Claire Fenby-Warren Life has been a bit shit so let’s talk about books 📚 End of Year Book tag

Huge thanks to Claire Fenby-Warren for including both Courting Disaster by @thezhm.bsky.social and Wild for Austen by @devoney.bsky.social in her new YouTube video - watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjDl...
Christmas shopping for an Austen fan? Both books are now 40% OFF on our website. #booksky

Shop our Christmas Sale now with 40% OFF selected titles until the 23rd December.
Perfect if you're Christmas shopping for the reader or readers in your life!
Only available for customers based in the UK and Europe.
Shop now on our website:
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The all new 2025 edition of Culture is bad for you is just £7!!!

Oiii! Pssst!
Want to make Christmas dinner at your in-laws more awkward? Want to tell aunty Laura about lesbian satanic nuns, or freak out bigoted-cousin-Barry with facts about unicorn porn?

Well now you can for 40% off!

This Christmas... give the gift of WTF. X

Ts&Cs:
Discount applies at checkout.
Currently only available to customers in the UK & Europe.
Order by the 17th December for Christmas delivery in the UK.
#booksky #christmas #giftguide

Our 2025 Christmas Gift Guide is now live!
Shop selected titles with 40% OFF as part of our Christmas Sale promotion for a limited time only.
Whether it's sport, folklore, music or Jane Austen you're after there's a book here for everyone on your list: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/11...

Today! @manchesterup.bsky.social

To mark National Grief Awareness Week (December 2nd - 8th) we're proud to share the cover for @jtwelsch.bsky.social's forthcoming book, The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets, which is publishing April 2026.
#nationalgriefawarenessweek #booksky

How has London changed in the last 100 years? In 'Songs of Seven Dials' historian @tricksterprince.bsky.social tells the story of a part of London that was the site for contests over urban development, race & the future of the city on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/songs-of-sev...

Labour's conformism is crushing Britain Rachel Reeves is just the latest ambassador of a failed political elite

Labour’s conformism is crushing Britain

Rachel Reeves is just the latest ambassador of a failed political elite

By David Edgerton and Karel Williams