Manchester University Press publishes monographs and textbooks for academic teaching in higher education.[3][needs update] Areas of expertise are history, politics and international law, literature and theatre studies, and visual culture.[5] Manchester University Press has been actively involved in open access.[6][7] It is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach to funding open access books.[9] Distribution was then in the hands of Sherratt & Hughes of Manchester; from 1913 the distributors were Longmans, Green & Co. though this arrangement came to an end in the 1930s.
Oxford Road frontage of the Manchester Museum (the Baroque style building in the foreground is the former Dental Hospital)