University of Chester Press

The University of Chester is one of only a small number of UK universities to have its own academic press, which was founded in 2001 as Chester Academic Press to disseminate the institution's expertise through its range of publications.

The re-launch in 2011 as the University of Chester Press reflects the institution's growing reputation for research and innovation and seeks to ensure that the core value of excellence in learning and teaching is evident throughout its list of publications.

The University of Chester Press aims to provide authors with a cost-effective means of publishing their research, together with a personal approach. It primarily publishes research from the University, in addition to publications with a significant relationship to the history, life and culture of Chester and its surrounding area.

LATEST NEWS: Forthcoming titles: Landscape History Discoveries in the North West (for the Chester Society for Landscape History); Wordlife: Stories and Poems from the Cheshire Prize for Literature; Corporeality: The Body and Society (Issues in the Social Sciences Series); Archaeologies of Modern Death; Post-slavery, Post-imperial, Post-colonial: Contesting Historical Divides in French-speaking Africa; A Christian Theology of Form in an Age of Science; and The Prime Minister’s Son: Stephen Gladstone, Reluctant Rector of Hawarden.

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Biodiversity in the North West: The Slime Moulds of Cheshire, by Professor Bruce Ing, is the most recent publication. Read more about the author and this fascinating subject.

Still Life: Poetry from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2010, edited by Dr Emma Rees,  is a rich and textured volume that contains a selection of the short-listed entries, including those of the eventual winners.

Politics, Publishing and Personalities: Wrexham Newspapers, 1848-1914, by Dr Lisa Peters, gives a unique insight into the world of provincial newspaper publishing in a North Wales town during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Find out more.