Blog post originally published by History Matters, January 2021. In recent years, debates about âfree speechâ have become ever-present in politics and the media, central to what has been... READ MORE
Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in genre film by Kinga Földvåry This book started out as a dilemma, as I suppose many books do, with a simple question, yet one that seemed to present... READ MORE
Archaeology, Human Remains, Exhibitions By Melanie Giles Bog Bodies are the best-preserved human remains from NW Europe. They have inspired poetry, art and literature. Bogs are not just... READ MORE
By Jonathan Bolton Author of The Blunt Affair: Official Secrecy and Treason in Literature, Television and Film, 1980-89 In writing a book about the cultural response to the Blunt Affair in the 1980s,... READ MORE
By Kathryn Milligan âTo understand Dublin,â Oliva Robertson wrote, âone must know its life in its fashionable squares and in its slums, in its suburbs and in its Georgian tenements; the... READ MORE
For 30 years Len Grant has documented the changing face of Manchester and Salford. Through his photography, writing and, most recently, his sketches, heâs told stories of significant regeneration... READ MORE
By Charlotte Lydia Riley Introduction from The free speech wars. I wrote this introduction in the spring and early summer of 2020. Since then, the issue of freedom of speech has stayed in the news, in... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? âThis book provides an up-to-date analysis of the social, material and literary forms of devotional identities during... READ MORE
By Jen Mellor Hi there! Iâm Jen Mellor, a Production Editor at Manchester University Press, and for this yearâs University Press Week... READ MORE
By Dean Blackburn In late March, we all retreated into our homes to seek refuge from a virus that has reshaped our everyday lives. We also confronted some uncomfortable truths. Suddenly, we... READ MORE