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If you’re at the London Book Fair, why not visit Edinburgh University Press? You can find AUPresses member @edinburghup.bsky.social in booth 7C40! #LBF26 #ReadUP

We are at The London Book Fair!

Come by our stand to meet some of the team and check out our books (we're at booth 7C40, right next to @independentpublishersguild.com 😊📚)

#LondonBookFair #LBF #publishingcommunity

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The latest in Film & Television Studies

Did your parents know what you were watching as a kid?

The latest Film mailer unveils our new titles, including an investigation into how the ‘video generation’ accessed media beyond their years.

Plus, blog posts on martial arts cinema and genocidal documentaries.

We had a great time at the Meet People Working in Publishing event last Wednesday!

Sales Executive Eilidh MacLennan and Marketing Executive Kevin Worrall chatted with students about their careers, day-to-day work, and shared job interview tips.

Thanks to #EdCreativeCareers for having us ❤️

Happy #InternationalWomensDay

Enjoy a throwback to the special issue from the Journal of British Cinema and Television: The Women behind #JamesBond

Includes articles on Broccoli's influence as a producer, Sullivan's work as the 'wardrobe mistress' and so much more! 

https://edin.ac/4utFg6r

It's #InternationalWomensDay tomorrow...

So why not browse our past issue from the #Romanticism journal on #JaneAusten?

Discover articles on displacement and loss in the author's novels, her portrayal of death, and more! 

#IWD

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Celebrate authoritative women’s voices with this special issue of the @scottishhistreview.bsky.social, free to read this month!

Find out about Mary of Guelders’ architectural patronage, women in early modern wills, eighteenth-century businesswomen and more. 

#IWD

5 Women from History Who Dared to be Dangerous - Edinburgh University Press Blog For this International Women’s Day, editor Ben Fletcher-Watson celebrates five trailblazing women who dared to make history

If you'd like a taster, our blog post celebrates five women mentioned in the book, from female pharaohs of Ancient Egypt to Russian war journalists to the first woman to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh! 

Women Who Dared Women Who Dared

Explore 45 powerful stories of resistance and defiance from the women who dared to make history! 📚

💪 From the infamous to the forgotten, these trailblazers have much to tell us about the dynamics and power relations that shape our world today.

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD

We’re going all in for the National Year of Reading  - Edinburgh University Press Blog Reading is important on so many levels. At Edinburgh University Press it is our mission to connect people and ideas. We do that by making field- defining research available across our journal and book publishing.  

📚 Happy World Book Day!

Reading is important on so many levels and it is our mission to connect people and ideas through publishing field- defining research across books and journals.

Revisit our blog post on our plans for the National Year of Reading! 

Shakespeare on the Radio Shakespeare on the Radio

And you can read John’s review in full here: doi.org/10.1080/0143...
Shakespeare on the Radio: A Century of BBC Plays was named as a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. It’s published by @edinburghup.bsky.social You can find out more here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shakesp...
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Well there’s no question that @edinburghup.bsky.social have done us some great covers. ‘Immersion’ is out today

It's #InternationalWomensDay this week!

Delve into our free virtual issue of articles, blog posts and book chapters from #DeleuzeConnections.

This collection, exclusively authored by women, explores the intersection of Deleuzian philosophy and feminist/queer theory.

https://edin.ac/4aKZH6W

#IWD

Call for Editors: Critical Insights in American Studies Series at Edinburgh University Press - British Association for American Studies Co-Editor of the Critical Insights in American Studies Series at Edinburgh University Press                                                                                          […]

Call for Editors!

The 'Critical Insights in American Studies' series from Edinburgh University Press is seeking a new co-editor.

Apply before 18:00, 13th March.

@edinburghup.bsky.social @emilysharp.bsky.social

GenX Brits, get ready to revisit your night terrors, secret softcore, and video nasties. @ilovethatfilm.bsky.social's "Unsuitable Film & Video Audiences" revisits the memories of the first generation to grow up with home video. @edinburghup.bsky.social
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Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide

If you would like to learn more, Julian's new book analyses documentary representations of perpetrators and discusses why these representations matter.

Use discount code NEW30 for 30% off:

What do hundreds of documentaries on genocide say about perpetrators? How we understand mass violence is shaped by a moral grammar and dictionary. Documentaries on genocide offer a profound glimpse into this explanatory language of genocide that they themselves also mold.

#OnTheBlog

After analysing over two-hundred documentaries, Julian Koch explains how genocidal 'perpetrators' are more complex than representational schemata of violent hatred and racism suggest...

Read it here:

A famous old shepherd looks for remedies - Edinburgh University Press Blog Explore James Hogg’s writings on Scottish rural life, tracing the loss of communal culture and the social tensions of modern sheep-farming.

#OnTheBlog

🐏 Explore James Hogg’s writings on Scottish rural life, tracing the loss of communal culture and the social tensions of modern sheep-farming.

A sneaky look at our forthcoming title, The Shepherd’s Guide, edited by Angus Sutherland and Alex Deans.

Recommend. Such a smart and fun look at the literary side of John Waters. With some Divine filth mixed in (in)appropriate doses. 🔥💩😋👀 #filmsky #booksky

Our Critical Insights in American Studies series is looking for a new Co-Editor.

🗓 Deadline: March 13th
📍 Interviews at BAAS 2026 (Glasgow)

Interested in helping to shape the future of the series?

Details here:

Shame in Contemporary You-Narration Shame in Contemporary You-Narration

Denise's book 'Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Time, Gender and Race' argues that temporality and affect are critical dimensions of the proliferation of second-person narratives in the twenty-first century.

#ContemporaryLierature

Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Q&A with the author - Edinburgh University Press Blog Denise Wong discusses Shame in Contemporary You-Narration, exploring second-person storytelling, shame, temporality, and narrative experimentation across literature and media.

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Denise Wong discusses Shame in Contemporary You-Narration, exploring second-person storytelling, shame, temporality, and narrative experimentation across literature and media.

Robin McAlpine says decades of new public management have reshaped Scotland’s universities, creating a leadership class which has left the sector overstretched, undemocratic and facing its worst crisis yet

www.heraldscotland.com/news...

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‘This trial is no trivial matter. It affects me, but it affects the country more’: Sedition, the Scottish Martyrs and Scots Law | The Scottish Historical Review As he faced conviction for sedition in 1793, Thomas Muir lamented ‘this trial is no trivial matter. It affects me, but it affects the country more.’ This statement echoes the sentiment of the time wherein the carrying out of British penal policy impinged on the autonomy of Scots law, which was p...

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⛓️ The full article examines the spaces where the bounds of criminality, the definition of punishment and the distinctions between English and #ScotsLaw, were played out...

Delve into the full article:

The Scottish Martyrs and the antagonisms between Scots Law and British penal practice Known as the Scottish Martyrs, their support for parliamentary and constitutional change has been commemorated over the last two hundred years to symbolise Scottish liberalism, nationalism and political reform.

The editors of @scottishhistreview.bsky.social introduce their article on the #ScottishMartyrs.

The article was the runner-up in the SHR’s inaugural Early Career Researcher prize!

Sebastian Monteux and Linda Murdoch warn that rising emotional‑safety rules are changing how Scotland’s universities teach, regulate behaviour, and handle debate

www.heraldscotland.com/news...

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✨ We are at The Renaissance Society of America Conference (@rsaorg.bsky.social).

Drop by the EUP stand (211/213) to meet with Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies, @emilysharp.bsky.social to discuss your next project and pick up a new book!

Here until the 21st!

#RenSA26

Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900-1900 Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900-1900

Their book, Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900-1900, studies the shared artistic traditions of Scotland and Ireland, from the medieval to the modern.

#IrishArt #ScottishArt 

Find out more:

Here is what the judges had to say about their book:

'Cutting across two nations and ‘Celtic’ and ‘Gaelic’ cultures, the essays are equally fascinating in the novel perspective they offer on nationalism, transnationalism, and sub and supranational identities in art history.'