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  • We’re going all in for the National Year of Reading 

    Reading is important on so many levels. At Edinburgh University Press it is our mission to connect people and ideas. We do that by making field- defining research available across our journal and book publishing.  

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Utopia: A round-table discussion

Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe a perfect imaginary world. The term was first published in 1516, and became the short title of his book about an…