Manchester University Press’s renowned Studies in Design and Material Culture series continues to develop the art history landscape with its latest publication, Threads of Globalization edited... READ MORE
Manchester University Press’s renowned Studies in Design and Material Culture series continues to develop the art history landscape with its latest publication, Threads of Globalization edited... READ MORE
The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) holds its Annual Convention in Philadelphia, November 30 – December 3, 2023. We’ve curated a virtual bookshop of... READ MORE
We’re celebrating Victorian Popular Fiction this summer by bringing together books on popular writers, literary genres and other cultural forms from the nineteenth century in a new reading list.... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? Women in the Arts and Crafts movement were significantly involved in shaping the art and culture of their time and their... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? A story of diverse objects, personalities, ideas and hopes and that shaped, or failed to shape, the material world late... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? A fascinating insight into the history and design of the ordinary interwar suburban semi. What book in your field has... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? Elizabeth McKellar’s The birth of modern London: the development and design of the city 1660–1720 (Manchester University Press, 1999) had a very... READ MORE
1. What book in this field has inspired you the most? I have been influenced by several books that present biographies of houses fused with personal memoir, notably Julie Myerson’s Home: The Story... READ MORE
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Abraham Moon and Sons had weathered a near endless series of challenges over the 150 years of its existence but one problem wouldn’t... READ MORE
The John Rylands Library and Manchester University Press are delighted to announce the new editors of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library: Stephen Mossman, University of Manchester Cordelia Warr,... READ MORE