Clare Hooper
@clarehooper.bsky.social
Director of of Journals Publishing at Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social. Cat servant to 3, I like books, running, horror films and big cups of tea (all views are my own).
Delighted to welcome The Library journal to LUP! ⬇️
We are pleased to share that The Library, @bibsoc.bsky.social, will be published by Liverpool University Press from 2026!
➡️ Find out more over on the LUP blog: bit.ly/TheLibrary-LUP
@ciliprarebooks.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @thewphp.bsky.social @davidshaw41.bsky.social
➡️ Find out more over on the LUP blog: bit.ly/TheLibrary-LUP
@ciliprarebooks.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @thewphp.bsky.social @davidshaw41.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Delighted to welcome The Library journal to LUP! ⬇️
Just finished reading The Rose Field - loved it. It is always a pleasure to spend time with Philip Pullman's writing.
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The Rose Field by Philip Pullman – nail-biting conclusion to the Northern Lights series
The Book of Dust trilogy is brought to a complex and fitting end as Lyra battles the Magisterium over her lost imagination
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January 22, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Just finished reading The Rose Field - loved it. It is always a pleasure to spend time with Philip Pullman's writing.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Good to hear about the DEIA work continuing in scholarly publishing, especially in the current climate.
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Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion Revisited: An Interview with Vicky Williams of Emerald Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen
In this follow-up to a 2018 interview, Alice Meadows revisits the topic of DEIA with Emerald Publishing's CEO, Vicky Williams to find out what progress has been made and where improvements are still n...
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January 20, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Good to hear about the DEIA work continuing in scholarly publishing, especially in the current climate.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/20/c...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/20/c...
18 years at @livunipress.bsky.social this month! So that's nice isn't it!?
Back then, we had 13 journals and about 8 members of staff....now we have 55 journals and 35 members of staff!
Very proud of how far we have come.
Back then, we had 13 journals and about 8 members of staff....now we have 55 journals and 35 members of staff!
Very proud of how far we have come.
January 19, 2026 at 3:20 PM
18 years at @livunipress.bsky.social this month! So that's nice isn't it!?
Back then, we had 13 journals and about 8 members of staff....now we have 55 journals and 35 members of staff!
Very proud of how far we have come.
Back then, we had 13 journals and about 8 members of staff....now we have 55 journals and 35 members of staff!
Very proud of how far we have come.
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📢 We’re pleased to announce that from 2026 Liverpool University Press will publish the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (JTEP) — one of the world’s leading journals dedicated to the economics of transport and its intersection with public policy.
Read the full announcement on our blog 👇
Read the full announcement on our blog 👇
Liverpool University Press to Publish the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy from 2026
Liverpool University Press (LUP) is pleased to announce that, beginning in 2026, it will become the new publisher of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (JTEP), one of the world’s leading…
liverpooluniversitypress.blog
January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
📢 We’re pleased to announce that from 2026 Liverpool University Press will publish the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (JTEP) — one of the world’s leading journals dedicated to the economics of transport and its intersection with public policy.
Read the full announcement on our blog 👇
Read the full announcement on our blog 👇
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Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Fantastic news! So happy to be able to share it!
📢 We’re pleased to announce that from 2026 Liverpool University Press will publish the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (JTEP) — one of the world’s leading journals dedicated to the economics of transport and its intersection with public policy.
Read the full announcement on our blog 👇
Read the full announcement on our blog 👇
Liverpool University Press to Publish the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy from 2026
Liverpool University Press (LUP) is pleased to announce that, beginning in 2026, it will become the new publisher of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (JTEP), one of the world’s leading…
liverpooluniversitypress.blog
January 15, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Fantastic news! So happy to be able to share it!
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🌐 With LUP Open Languages, libraries support Open Access for all. If enough institutions subscribe:
✔️ Authors publish without APCs
✔️ Readers access the latest content OA
Subscribing institutions also gain exclusive archive access.
Recommend a subscription to your librarian ➡️ bit.ly/LUP-Open-Lang
✔️ Authors publish without APCs
✔️ Readers access the latest content OA
Subscribing institutions also gain exclusive archive access.
Recommend a subscription to your librarian ➡️ bit.ly/LUP-Open-Lang
January 12, 2026 at 11:30 AM
🌐 With LUP Open Languages, libraries support Open Access for all. If enough institutions subscribe:
✔️ Authors publish without APCs
✔️ Readers access the latest content OA
Subscribing institutions also gain exclusive archive access.
Recommend a subscription to your librarian ➡️ bit.ly/LUP-Open-Lang
✔️ Authors publish without APCs
✔️ Readers access the latest content OA
Subscribing institutions also gain exclusive archive access.
Recommend a subscription to your librarian ➡️ bit.ly/LUP-Open-Lang
Reposted by Clare Hooper
Reposted by Clare Hooper
Wonderful to have @abcurry.bsky.social among the contributors to Volume 38 of 'Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry' on ‘Gender and the Body in East European Jewish History'
My article for Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Vol. 38 has officially been published. I wrote this a while ago, so I can’t bring myself to read it just yet. But maybe you will!
Thanks so much to the editors for their support along the way and especially to @guesnet.bsky.social for the invitation.
Thanks so much to the editors for their support along the way and especially to @guesnet.bsky.social for the invitation.
After Death: Identity, Tradition, Ethics, and the Dead Jewish Body in Poland | Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
This chapter explores the deceased Jewish body and the ways in which the dead contributed to the relationship of the living to their own Jewish identity in Poland. During the interwar period the dead Jewish body was a significant part of identity ...
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January 6, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Wonderful to have @abcurry.bsky.social among the contributors to Volume 38 of 'Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry' on ‘Gender and the Body in East European Jewish History'
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MOST READ | 'Planetary Figurations: Intensive Genre in World Literature' by @fmussgnug.bsky.social. Read it #OA for free online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Mussgnug @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social @hpartzsch.bsky.social @fmussgnug.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 3:31 PM
MOST READ | 'Planetary Figurations: Intensive Genre in World Literature' by @fmussgnug.bsky.social. Read it #OA for free online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Mussgnug @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social @hpartzsch.bsky.social @fmussgnug.bsky.social
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We are pleased to share that David Evans is the new General Editor of French Studies, succeeding Martin Crowley after seven years. We thank Martin for his leadership.
An interview with Crowley & Evans in French Studies Bulletin is free to read this January➡️bit.ly/FS-Editor
@frenchstudies.bsky.social
An interview with Crowley & Evans in French Studies Bulletin is free to read this January➡️bit.ly/FS-Editor
@frenchstudies.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 1:30 PM
We are pleased to share that David Evans is the new General Editor of French Studies, succeeding Martin Crowley after seven years. We thank Martin for his leadership.
An interview with Crowley & Evans in French Studies Bulletin is free to read this January➡️bit.ly/FS-Editor
@frenchstudies.bsky.social
An interview with Crowley & Evans in French Studies Bulletin is free to read this January➡️bit.ly/FS-Editor
@frenchstudies.bsky.social
The Year in Review: 2025 in The Scholarly Kitchen
(interesting that Bluesky provides around 40% as many referrals as LinkedIn - SK's top referrer)
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(interesting that Bluesky provides around 40% as many referrals as LinkedIn - SK's top referrer)
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/05/t...
The Year in Review: 2025 in The Scholarly Kitchen - The Scholarly Kitchen
Before we plunge into 2026, a look back at 2025, a difficult year for many in the scholarly community.
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January 6, 2026 at 10:29 AM
The Year in Review: 2025 in The Scholarly Kitchen
(interesting that Bluesky provides around 40% as many referrals as LinkedIn - SK's top referrer)
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/05/t...
(interesting that Bluesky provides around 40% as many referrals as LinkedIn - SK's top referrer)
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/05/t...
Here is a picture of my brother’s dog wearing a Christmas hat. He was very proud.
January 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Here is a picture of my brother’s dog wearing a Christmas hat. He was very proud.
Happy New Year to you all. Hope your time off was restful.
January 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Happy New Year to you all. Hope your time off was restful.
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Despite population decline, land take is still rising in the Baltics. An @errnews.bsky.social article highlights research published in Town Planning Review (TPR) on land use, monitoring gaps and policy challenges. Read the piece ⬇️ and find the full TPR article in the post below.
Baltics being paved over even despite population loss
Although the European Union has set a goal to halt the occupation of new natural areas by 2050, the Baltic states are moving in the opposite direction. Analyses by researchers from the Estonian…
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January 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Despite population decline, land take is still rising in the Baltics. An @errnews.bsky.social article highlights research published in Town Planning Review (TPR) on land use, monitoring gaps and policy challenges. Read the piece ⬇️ and find the full TPR article in the post below.
Reposted by Clare Hooper
Keir Starmer is our most musical prime minister since Edward Heath. He must take up the baton for the arts | Martin Kettle
Keir Starmer is our most musical prime minister since Edward Heath. He must take up the baton for the arts | Martin Kettle
Not all of the problems of Britain’s cultural sector come down to funding, but an awful lot do. That’s where leadership comes in, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
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December 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Keir Starmer is our most musical prime minister since Edward Heath. He must take up the baton for the arts | Martin Kettle
UK to re-join Erasmus+ – here are six benefits of the European exchange scheme
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UK to re-join Erasmus+ – here are six benefits of the European exchange scheme
Erasmus+ an accessible and well-supported programme.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
UK to re-join Erasmus+ – here are six benefits of the European exchange scheme
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theconversation.com/uk-to-re-joi...
📢 Winter Sale ending klaxon!
Use discount code 27WINTER on the LUP website for up to 50% off selected print and ebooks.
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Use discount code 27WINTER on the LUP website for up to 50% off selected print and ebooks.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
Tomorrow is the final day of our Winter Sale! Use discount code 27WINTER on the LUP website for up to 50% off selected print and ebooks.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
We are offering up to 50% off print and ebooks in our Winter Sale!*
Use discount code 27WINTER at checkout on our website before Thursday 18th December 2025.
Browse our latest releases: bit.ly/AW25LUP
*Selected partner titles excluded from the sale.
Use discount code 27WINTER at checkout on our website before Thursday 18th December 2025.
Browse our latest releases: bit.ly/AW25LUP
*Selected partner titles excluded from the sale.
December 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📢 Winter Sale ending klaxon!
Use discount code 27WINTER on the LUP website for up to 50% off selected print and ebooks.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
Use discount code 27WINTER on the LUP website for up to 50% off selected print and ebooks.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
RIP Rob Reiner.
Stand By Me remains one of my most favourite films.
This is so sad.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...
Stand By Me remains one of my most favourite films.
This is so sad.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...
Kiefer Sutherland and Rob Reiner: how we made Stand By Me
‘River Phoenix was like a 13-year-old James Dean. There was so much soul there’
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December 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
RIP Rob Reiner.
Stand By Me remains one of my most favourite films.
This is so sad.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...
Stand By Me remains one of my most favourite films.
This is so sad.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...
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The first issue is shaping up nicely already, look out for more news in 2026 and an appearance from the team at the Leeds International Medieval Congress!
NEW FOR 2026 | Essays in Long Late Antiquity
A new Open Access journal in first millennium studies, enticing interdisciplinary and superregional approaches to research in the second to the ninth centuries & broader Afro-Eurasian region: bit.ly/4f7BXZC @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social
A new Open Access journal in first millennium studies, enticing interdisciplinary and superregional approaches to research in the second to the ninth centuries & broader Afro-Eurasian region: bit.ly/4f7BXZC @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The first issue is shaping up nicely already, look out for more news in 2026 and an appearance from the team at the Leeds International Medieval Congress!
Reposted by Clare Hooper
The University Press Redux conference returns to Liverpool on March 17th-18th, 2026. Learn more about the line up so far and early bird tickets on the LUP blog:
liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/12/12/u... @alpsp.bsky.social
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University Press Redux returns to Liverpool for 2026
The University Press Redux conference returns to Liverpool on March 17th-18th, 2026. Hosted by Liverpool University Press, in association with ALPSP, and with a programme committee drawn from a num…
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December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The University Press Redux conference returns to Liverpool on March 17th-18th, 2026. Learn more about the line up so far and early bird tickets on the LUP blog:
liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/12/12/u... @alpsp.bsky.social
liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/12/12/u... @alpsp.bsky.social
New Open Access ahead-of-print content from The Journal of Beatles Studies: new reviews and a poetic look at Beatles history.
📣 Open Access ahead-of-print content from The Journal of Beatles Studies: new reviews and a poetic look at Beatles history.
👉 bit.ly/JBS-Ahead-of-Print
@paullongmedia.bsky.social @smallmegapixel.bsky.social @ppbkwriter.com @bigbeatlessortout.bsky.social @iaspm-us.bsky.social @thenacbs.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/JBS-Ahead-of-Print
@paullongmedia.bsky.social @smallmegapixel.bsky.social @ppbkwriter.com @bigbeatlessortout.bsky.social @iaspm-us.bsky.social @thenacbs.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New Open Access ahead-of-print content from The Journal of Beatles Studies: new reviews and a poetic look at Beatles history.