What book in this field has inspired you the most? There are many in museum studies which have been inspirational, but if we had to name three that have been important for this project exploring... READ MORE
In most small-scale societies, whether farmers or hunter-gatherers, the young make up around half the community. From history we see the same pattern. Children have long been ‘the hidden half’ of... READ MORE
Here at MUP we are getting excited about the release of Suffragette, starring Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan. And to celebrate, we are offering 20% off a selection of our women’s history... READ MORE
Why do the lives and careers of Emile Pereire (1800–75) and his brother Isaac (1806–80) fascinate us? Certainly, their achievements as railway entrepreneurs and bankers were extraordinary, but the... READ MORE
By Dianne Lawrence The people over the road are moving out, the whole kit and caboodle: the chairs and beds, the IT paraphernalia, cat-basket, books, tele’ and lawn mower. In the year... READ MORE
As the football season around Europe got underway, two stories relating to match-going fan behaviour and social media hit the headlines. At Old Trafford, Manchester United announced that fans... READ MORE
Pleased as I was to read Taiye Selasi’s new novel, Ghana Must Go, I could not help thinking too little has changed since the writers I described in Ending British Rule in Africa struggled to get... READ MORE
Sometimes life is better than fiction. Is there any novelist who could have got this extraordinary story so perfectly right, inventing it: the violence at the heart of it, the suspense, the... READ MORE
By Geoff Pearson The launch date for An Ethnography of Football Fans: Cans, Cops and Carnivals coincided with the 7th Annual Ethnography Symposium held at the University of Liverpool’s Management... READ MORE