Short answers, pulled from the story.
James Tait established the Manchester University Press in 1904 as a Publications Committee of the Victoria University of Manchester. The office occupied a house on Lime Grove during those initial years.
The current location is the Manchester Medical School on Coupland Street where administrative work continues today. Since 1951 they have occupied Grove House on Oxford Road before relocating to the former University Dental Hospital.
Oxford University Press markets and distributes Manchester University Press books throughout the United States and Canada. The press later established its own American office in Dover, New Hampshire to manage these relationships more closely.
Core subject strengths include history, politics and international law alongside literature and theatre studies. Visual culture forms another key area of focus for editorial selection and research support.
Only seventeen publications had been issued under its imprint in the first year. The press began with just seventeen titles but grew into producing about one hundred forty-five new books annually by 2012.