One of the earliest heads of the press was Lascelles Abercrombie, the first poetry lecturer at the university. LUP's books are distributed in North America by Oxford University Press.
As the press of the University of Liverpool, it specialises in modern languages, literatures, history, and visual culture and currently publishes more than 150 books a year, as well as 34 academic journals.
Liverpool University Press ( LUP), founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Liverpool University Press, Modern Languages Open, Pavilion Poetry Turpin Distribution (UK and most of world)
