Be sure to check out the Padlet for CfPs for #IMC2027! If anyone wants their CfP adding to the Padlet, email or tag the @imc-leeds.bsky.social team. It's useful for those who don't use the socials and is linked on the IMC 2027 website. padlet.com/universityof...

IMC 2027 'Communities'

Proposals on any topic related to the Middle Ages are welcome, while every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In 2027 this is ‘Communities’. For any questions, please email imc@leeds....

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We're thrilled to say that Carol Chillington Rutter's 'Lying abroad' has been longlisted for the The Cundill History Prize 2026! 'Lying abroad' is out now and available from all good bookshops & online. #booksky #historysky

Brimming with materials, incl. interviews, news articles, photos & flyers, 'A queer scrapbook' explores queer life since WW2. Join two of the editors at @womenslibrary.bsky.social as they unpack this unique & beautifully illustrated book. FREE tickets: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/a-quee... #booksky

A queer scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945

Meet the authors as they unpack this unique and beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTQI+ life over eighty years of extraordinary change.

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⚔️Medieval Studies Collection 🍀Irish Studies Collection 🎞️Film, Media and Music Collection 🎭Literature and Theatre Collection 📣Politics Collection Don't miss this chance to grow your collections with high-quality UP scholarship. Contact katharine.horton@manchester.ac.uk today. #AcademicLibraries

Summer reading season is officially underway at MUP☀️📚 From postcolonial family sagas and queer desire in Northern Italy to neo-noir detectives and brand new Maggie O'Farrell, take a peek at what made it out of our TBR piles and into our tote bags this July! Let us know your current read below⬇️

After the success of this year's iteration of Arms, Armour, and the Arts of Combat at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social , it's time to begin planning for next year. Please do circulate amongst any relevant parties. #imc2026 #imc2027

Have you organized a smashing session at #IMC2026 that fits somewhere in the first millennium and you are thinking about publishing it? Essays in Long Late Antiquity accept proposals for special issues and special sections, just get in touch! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...

Contents | Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1, 1

This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...

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50% off with @manchesterup.bsky.social!!! Go on, get yourself a little treat. Our series of Studies in #earlymodern Europe history is basically one big treasure chest of shiny gems. #SkyStorians manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi...

Studies in Early Modern European History - Manchester University Press

This series aims to promote challenging and innovative research in all areas of early modern European history. For over twenty years it has published monographs and edited volumes that make an origina...

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please pardon 'piggybacking' @onslies.bsky.social but our 'French Connection' volume is #earlymodern #ICYMI @manchesterup.bsky.social 50% sale ends this week (only 15 quid/$22.50) manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152616733...

Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires

Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber

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50% off with @manchesterup.bsky.social!!! Go on, get yourself a little treat. Our series of Studies in #earlymodern Europe history is basically one big treasure chest of shiny gems. #SkyStorians manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi...

We had a blast at day one of #IMC2026 and we're ready to do it all again today! Pictured: Sam Ottewill-Soulsby with 'The Carolingian South', Hope Doherty-Harrison with 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance', Graham A. Loud with 'Monasticism and renewal in southern Italy'.

It's the penultimate day of #IMC2026 and our Summer Sale! For 48 hours more, enjoy 50% off all MUP titles. Discount applies at checkout, unless based in North America. North American customers, please enter discount code SUMMER50 at checkout. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06...

My first monograph is now in GREAT company in the Jacobite Studies series at @manchesterup.bsky.social ! Congrats' to @f18cal.bsky.social on a beautiful cover... and an even more excited content 💪 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/jacob...

Jacobite Studies - Manchester University Press

The Jacobite Studies series is an academically rigorous home for new work examining Jacobitism in the British Isles and beyond, which broadens our understanding of Jacobitism as a whole, provoking his...

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If you're at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week, do come and say hello! I'll be at the MUP booth showing off our latest publications and I *think* we're near the tea and coffee too.

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We’re on the road for conference season 📚 We kicked things off yesterday at the Society for the Social History of Medicine, with more events to come across the UK and Europe. If you’re attending, come and chat to the team, we’d love to say hi! #SSHM2026 #SHS2026 #IMC2026 #NCS2026

We’re on the road for conference season 📚 We kicked things off yesterday at the Society for the Social History of Medicine, with more events to come across the UK and Europe. If you’re attending, come and chat to the team, we’d love to say hi! #SSHM2026 #SHS2026 #IMC2026 #NCS2026

Next week, I'll be presenting a creative-critical paper @imc-leeds.bsky.social on 'The Phoenix Speaks: An Ecocreative Response to an Old English Allegory' in Session 616. Looking forward to it! #IMC2026 imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/mee...

We're proud to celebrate Queer and Trans Histories, a series dedicated to groundbreaking work on LGBTQ+ lives past and present. To mark Pride Month, we sat down with two of the series editors Jennifer Evans and Matthew Cook. Read the full Q&A here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06...

Eyes Queer as Folklore 👀

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Our Summer Sale is now on! For TWO WEEKS ONLY, every single book on our website is 50% OFF. No code needed, discount applies automatically at checkout. Shop now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Must end 9th July! #SummerSale #booksky

Today marks National Writing Day, an annual celebration of the power of writing creatively. Here's just a selection of our books which celebrate and offer guidance to writing in various forms, from crime & fantasy fiction to memoir & classic novels. #NationalWritingDay #amwriting #booksky

🚨what does Christ have to do with the Midgard Serpent? Watch for answers 🚨 youtu.be/fvhbnJSvSwI

Hell (with 2 Ls) in Old Norse: feat. Prof. Stephen Hopkins

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We’re thrilled to share that Slave Trading in the Early Middle Ages: Long-Distance Connections in Northern and East Central Europe by Janel M. Fontaine has been shortlisted for the 2026 Royal Historical Society First Book Prize. More about the shortlist: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2026/05/18/r...

We're proud to launch Radical Histories, a new series dedicated to the individuals, movements and ideas that have challenged authority. We recently caught up with the series editors to find out more about the series' aims. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04... @tedvallance.bsky.social

Congratulations Janel Fontaine! It's great to see Slave Trading in the Early Middle Ages making the shortlist for the Royal Historical Society's 2026 First Book Prize manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526160096/ @manchesterup.bsky.social

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The Society is pleased to publish the Shortlist of its 2026 First Book Prize for early career historians: bit.ly/4dARJO1 This year's list includes eight monographs published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two prize winners will be announced in July #Skystorians

I SPENT TEN YEARS TRANSLATING MEDIEVAL VISIONS OF HELL SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO!

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Manchester University Press - Translating hell

Translating hell - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Translating hell by Stephen C. E. Hopkins

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I appreciate I'm biased, but tell me this isn't the best unboxing video ever!

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🚨🚨 UNBOXING TIME🚨🚨

From canvas to carpet 🖼️📷 This year’s Met Gala theme was fashion as art, so we couldn’t resist taking a few of our most beautiful covers and pairing them with some of last night’s standout looks. Turns out our books hold their own on the cream carpet!

We're sending HUGE congratulations to Mark Bailey for winning the Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize. His work 'Serfdom in medieval England: Theory and practice 1200-1500' explores how serfdom operated in practice and why it has shaped historical debate. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526172976/

Out now! What role does silence play in war? The latest book in our Melland Schill Studies in International Law series uncovers the hidden role of silence in enabling military violence, from drone warfare to colonial counterinsurgency. Find out more on our website.

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