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.