In 2013, LUP acquired the rights to the University of Exeter Press' publications on archaeology, medieval studies, history, classics and ancient history, landscape studies.[4]
In 2014, the company announced the launch of Modern Languages Open, its peer-reviewedopen access online platform publishing research from across the modern languages.[5]
In 2015, the press launched Pavilion Poetry, a new imprint publishing collections of contemporary poetry. Mona Arshi was one of the first poets to be published, and her book, Small Hands, won The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection at the 2015 Forward Prizes for Poetry.[6]
The press was shortlisted for the Independent Publishing Awards in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and in 2015 won the IPG Award for Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year.[9] In the same year, the press won the Bookseller Industry Award for Independent Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year.[9]
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