The Alan Walker Book Award

The forthcoming Liszt's Chopin has been entered into the Alan Walker Book Award in the US. The award will be presented by Dr. Walker at the 2011 American Liszt Society Bicentennial at the University of Georgia early next year.

Liszt's Chopin, by Meirion Hughes, will be available in the UK next month. Pre-order your copy now, and get a special 10% bloggers discount by quoting OTH197 (available until 31/12/2010)

As usual, more information about Liszt's Chopin can be found on our website

Why pamper life's complexities? - Offical cover design released

The cover of Why pamper life's complexities?, our new title on the Smiths, has been released today, and you are among the first to sneak a peek....

We're keen to hear your thoughts on the design. Why not leave us your comments at the bottom of this post?

The book will be launched towards the end of November at a super special launch event - details coming soon!

Follow this link for more details on the book, including a full contents list.

Do you know about our open access journal?

Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal is hosted on our website and can be read free of charge by anyone. The journal includes topical articles such as British Pakistani Muslim Women's Political Empowerment and Boundary Crossings and The Impact of Government Initiatives in Promoting Racial Equality in Higher Education.

It's easy to browse articles from the journal, follow this link and click on the title of the article you would like to read.

NEW Issue Three is now available

Richard Lester donates first draft of Beatles films

Richard Lester has donated more than 60 boxes of letters, scripts, notes and photographs documenting his 40 year career, to the BFI National Archive. The donation includes the first drafts of the Beatles films A Hard Day's Night and Help!. Lester’s collection also includes letters from Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch and Spike Milligan.

Read more about this story.

MUP published a full analysis of Richard Lester’s career earlier this year. Indelibly associated with the Beatles, the ‘swinging sixties’ and his joyous sex comedy The Knack, Lester has tended to be categorised as a modish director whose heyday passed when that decade’s optimism slid into disillusionment and violence. This book presents an alternative view of his work.

Find out more about Richard Lester

Peggy Seeger announces UK tour dates

Peggy Seeger will be touring the UK later this year, playing in various venues across the country. Last year Peggy helped us launch the revised edition of Journeyman, Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, at a large memorial concert at Peel Hall in Salford. She also kindly contributed a new introduction for the title.

More details about Ewan MacColl's popular autobiography are available on our website.

Visit Peggy's website to find out more details about her UK tour.

Dictionary of British politics

REVIEW

The brand new Dictionary of British politics, by Bill Jones has been reviewed on the Liverpool Hope University website.

Read what they have to say

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Summer 2010, Artisans of the body in early modern Italy is NEW IN PAPERBACK!

'A phenomenally detailed picture of the lives of barbers and surgeons, based not on the prescriptive regulations of guilds or colleges, but on the careers, work and family relationships of the individuals involved . . . . Cavallo's work provides a splendid model for further research.'

Katharine Park, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

To read the full review please follow http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/hkp076

More reviews for this title can be found here....

Histoire sociale/Social history review (Volume 42, Number 84, November, on p. 490) by E. Cohen http://www.utpjournals.com/hssh/hssh.html

For Jacobson Schutte's review in Renaissance Quarterly (63:1, Spring 2010, pp. 239-40) http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/2010/63/1

Fellow MUP author, Evelyn Welch, reviews Artisans of the body in History Workshop journal http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/history_workshop_journal/v068/68.welch.html

Rebecca Messbarger writes for The American Historical Review http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/ahr.114.4.1184?journalC

Lifting the lid on British shipbuilding

Newly released The tide of democracy is a detailed account of British shipbuilding between 1870 and 1950. The title includes highly original detailed studies of the impact of new machinery on skills, the significance of rank-and-file movements within trade unions, and the role of craft unions in the early Labour Party.

Anyone interested in shipyard workers, or simply enthusiasts in Modern British Social and Economic History should visit a new exhibtion at Chatham Historic Dockyard in Kent. A series of paintings by artist Stanley Spencer, commissioned to record the World War II effort, have gone on display for the first time since a full-scale restoration.

Check out details of the exhibition.

BOOK LAUNCH

Collaboration and interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters
Essays in honour of Richard G. Maber
Edited by Paul Scott

This collection of fifteen essays by distinguished scholars covers aspects of interdisciplinarity and collaboration within the Republic of Letters. The essays include historical, theological, and literary topics and all focus on different means of communication of individuals between other intellectuals, with the past, and through the arts.

The book will be launched on 19th July at the Thirteenth International Conference for 17c Studies, to be held at Durham castle between 19th and 22nd July.

Those interested in attending the launch should contact bethan.hirst@manchester.ac.uk or guy.taylor@manchester.ac.uk.

Trace the history of the politics of alcohol

James Nicholls, author of The Politics of Alcohol will be appearing on a new BBC series to be broadcast on Radio Four next week.

Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State sees Mark Whitaker investigating the history of the politics of alcohol.

More information about the series can be found at
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t1q76