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Liverpool University Press was founded in 1899. It is the third oldest university press in England, after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.
Liverpool University Press specialises in modern languages, literatures, history, and visual culture. It publishes more than 160 books a year and 50 academic journals, with its books distributed in North America by Longleaf.
Lascelles Abercrombie was one of the earliest heads of Liverpool University Press. He also served as the University of Liverpool's first poetry lecturer.
Mona Arshi, the imprint's inaugural poet, won the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection at the 2015 Forward Prizes for Poetry with her collection Small Hands. Bhanu Kapil's How to Wash a Heart later won the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize.
In 2004, Liverpool University Press was restructured, changing from a department of the University of Liverpool into a subsidiary.
David Bolt, of Liverpool Hope University, is the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. The journal moved to Liverpool University Press in 2009, having been established in 2006.