Season’s Greetings from LUP!
From all at Leiden University Press we are wishing you and your loved ones a very happy holiday and a wonderful 2025! We would like to bring to your attention our closure dates from 24th December – 6th January. Please be aware our webshop orders can be processed and paid for but shipping will not […]
Ebook launch The Eighty Years War
With popular demand for our printed edition, we are now launching the ebook of The Eighty Years War From Revolt to Regular War, 1568-1648. The Eighty Years War offers an insight into the military factors at play in the creation of the Dutch Republic. In 1648 the Spanish empire agreed to a peace treaty that […]
Revealing the story behind the cover. Podcast feature!
Alp Yenen and Erik-Jan Zürcher talk about their book, A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments. Featured in episode 46: History in Fragments podcast by The Lausanne Project, they share their innovative approach and what exactly we mean when we refer to ‘Turkish studies’. Have a listen here Check out […]
#StepUP – Uni Press Week 2024
This year’s theme—#StepUP—is a chance to discover the ways university presses step up to educate, enlighten, and take action and to explore how their publications and platforms help to contextualize current issues and events, offer solutions to global challenges, and amplify diverse voices across an array of disciplines. Inaugurated by Jimmy Carter in 1978, University […]
Feature on Turkey Book Talk
Take a listen to Alp Yenen on weighing up the Republic of Turkey’s legacy at 100 years. Along with Erik-Jan Zürcher, Alp co-edited the volume, published to mark the centenary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey. It is a rich potpourri of 100 short chapters, written by over 70 scholars, examining different aspects […]
Middle Eastern Library Launch
An extraordinary launch for an extraordinary publication! At the opening of the Middle Eastern Library of Leiden University on 25 September 2024, we were delighted to launch our latest publication Prophets, Poets and Scholars. With the richly varied opening program that included speed lectures by authors, the evening allowed visitors to truly delve into the […]
Bert van Selm-lezing
Lancering van ons nieuwste boek met een stimulerende presentatie van de auteur Prof. Dr. Joris van Eijnatten. Struisvogelgedrag in de geesteswetenschappen: Een pleidooi voor computationele zelfredzaamheid, stelt de vraag (en meer): Hoe toekomstbestendig zijn de geesteswetenschappen in het licht van de voortgaande digitalisering? Leiden Univerity Press is verheugd om dit jaar betrokken te zijn bij de […]
450th jubilee give away
Marking the opening of this 450th academic year at Leiden University, the LUP is running a competition to win one of our special edition books. Take a step back through the ages with Magna Commoditas – Leiden University’s ‘Great Asset’ by author Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck. Magna Commodities presents our university library’s famous special collections through a […]