Stephen Mullen's excellent book on this topic, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 is available to read for free from our website: uolpress.co.uk/book/the-gla... #OpenAccess #History #Slavery #Scotland

To tie the last two reposts togetehr, Helen Macfarlane, born OTD in 1818 is discussed in @uclpress.bsky.social new #OpenAccess volume on working class writers: read.uolpress.co.uk/read/british... #History 🗃️

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social. This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏 'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!' uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

The 2025 Being Human Festival programme is now live! 💫 This year's festival runs from 6 - 15 November 2025. With over 220 events taking place in 46 towns and cities across the UK, there is a wide range of events to suit everyone's curiosities. Programme highlights: bit.ly/3IsbVWI #BeingHuman2025

📣Two new events in collaboration with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social! 📣 Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800 | 15 Oct | 5.30 - 7.30pm tinyurl.com/2uayfe7r From Bones to Books to Blitz Scrap – What London Recycled during the Second World War | 10 Dec | 5.30 - 7.30pm tinyurl.com/3t2f435p

After 80 years, Senate House Library has reunited a rare 14th-century manuscript looted in WWII with the Chandon family. Thanks to expert detective work, MS541 will remain accessible for study, preserving its history for future generations. www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

Don’t miss our fireside in-person chat with Albie Sachs on 1st October! www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

What book does the theme 'railways in literature' make you think of? 🛤️🚂📚 A new article by Karen Attar, editor of #OpenAccess title, Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction, explores this for the 200th anniversary of the railway. www.london.ac.uk/senate-house... @senatehouselib.bsky.social

Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

Purchase or download our latest #OpenAccess #History and #Politics title - The 1922 General Election Reconsidered: High Politics and the Birth of the Modern British Election by G.H. Bennett. uolpress.co.uk/book/the-192...

Our member, LSHTM Press, has a new LinkedIn profile! Go give them a follow and get the latest in Open Access public and global health research. www.linkedin.com/company/lsht...

Interested in finding out more about non-profit #OpenAccess publishing in universities? Join us at our free, online @oipassoc.bsky.social Symposium in Oct during #OAWeek! Find out more inc registration link below 👇

Good to see the work of @oipassoc.bsky.social members as offering 'an ethical alternative to commercial publishers' based on collaboration, not competition, by @samuelmoore.org in this piece about his new book ⬇️ #OpenAccess #OABookPublishing

At a time when leaders arguably aren't showing much evidence of leadership on the academic research front, it's important to recognise the staff and organisations that are championing, supporting and delivering innovative, high-quality research. Kudos to @uolpress.bsky.social .

A reminder about our new Digital Cultural Heritage series. We're working on the design for this exciting new short-form #OpenAccess series. See the details incl the full editorial advisory board: uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... #DigitalHumanities #Publishing #OpenResearch #DigitalCulturalHeritage

Delighted and privileged to have been appointed for the #REF2029 UoA 27: English Language and Literature! @ref2029.bsky.social Looking forward to working with my fellow sub-panel members to champion English research 🎉

Congratulations to our Head of Publishing @paulakennedy.bsky.social, who has been appointed to the The Research Excellence Framework (REF) English Language and Literature sub-panel for REF 2029! 👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Check out this RHS blog post by our author @mctom.bsky.social on his new book, Waterscapes, published #OpenAccess in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series! @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/08/28/w... The book can be downloaded from our website and read for free.

Having long forwarded that the academic book needs reworking at every level (albeit from an often lonely corner), this latest piece is most welcome: "Reimagining the Humanities Book: Bringing Living With Machines to Life Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research Practices"

🤗 Very proud of our staff members for having an article published in the latest issue of @learnedpublishing.bsky.social about the Living with Machines project on our @manifoldscholar.bsky.social platform! 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #OpenAccess #ExperimentalPublishing #OpenHumanities

Lovely article from our publishers at @uolpress.bsky.social about bringing the Living With Machines book to life 'Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research'. It's been so great working with Emma and Jamie on this! Practiceshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2025

So I've written a book! Waterscapes is about how impactful our need for water is on the environment and people. It's also about the ways in which infrastructure projects can impact place for good or bad.

To accompany publication, Andrew writes today on the history of water management, and its lessons for current environmental policy, for the RHS blog: bit.ly/421KU2I For details of and access to all 23 titles in the NHP series (all available OA), please see bit.ly/41oIUBE #Skystorians

🎉 Now published! 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales' by Andrew McTominey in our New Historical Perspectives series with @royalhistsoc.org and @ihr.bsky.social Read the #OpenAccess book for free below ⬇️ #OpenAccess #History #humanities #ECR

Waterscapes by Andrew McTominey publishes tomorrow! This #OpenAccess title is part of the #NewHistoricalPerspectives series published with @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org. uolpress.co.uk/book/watersc... Thank you to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the funding which helped to support its publication!

'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series for early career historians, published with @ihr.bsky.social, @uolpress.bsky.social and Economic History Society. All titles available Open Access as downloads and Manifold online editions bit.ly/4fSzhBb 2/2

The programme for this symposium has just been announced and it looks superb! Featuring @laurajcleaver.bsky.social alongside IES fellows and students. Book now! 09 September 2025–10 September 2025, 9:30 am–6:30 pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Institute of Classical Studies is launching a newsletter. Sign up to stay updated on announcements, events, fellowships, grants, and upcoming activities of the ICS. The newsletter will be sent monthly in term time. mailchi.mp/sas/ics-news...

We've published a new blog post outlining the free training sessions we have on our website. If you're a researcher in the #humanities interested in #publishing and #OpenAccess, there may be something useful for you in there! 👇 uolpress.co.uk/2025/08/navi...

Out 28th August: Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment & Identity in Modern England & Wales by Andrew McTominey published w/ @royalhistsoc.org & @ihr.bsky.social. The 23rd book in the #NewHistoricalPerspectives series, all of which are #OpenAccess w/ no author charge. uolpress.co.uk/book/watersc...

🎉 ORCID is celebrating a BIG milestone this week! 🤯 The number of Yearly Active Researchers just surpassed 10M! Researchers, if you haven't signed in for a while, you might be surprised by all the changes we've integrated! Check out your record now 👉 https://orcid.org/signin #Researchsky

Cover reveal for Law and Justice in the 1950s: Case Studies From a Neglected Decade edited by Fiona Cownie & Rosemary Auchmuty. The 2nd book in our Reimagining Law & Justice series, published in association with @ials.bsky.social. #OpenAccess Pub Jan 26 Read more: uolpress.co.uk/book/law-and...

The many contributions of Peter Mandler, including as a former President @royalhistsoc.org, are celebrated in a new OA book 'Democratising History', published @uolpress.bsky.social. Peter's innovations as RHS President (2012-16) are reviewed by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social and Richard Fisher 1/2

We love working with @paulakennedy.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social team 🤝 So pleased to see new supporters as well as renewals from previous supporters 📚

And you can now read the (just published) book for free on the @uolpress.bsky.social website uolpress.co.uk/book/democra... !

New cover reveal! Publishing this November, Postcards, Translators and Esperanto Pioneers: An Alternative History of International Communication explores the writing and lives of John Beveridge (1857–1943) & his family. #OpenAccess & published w/ @ihr.bsky.social 😊 uolpress.co.uk/book/postcar...

Nice to read about one of our fellow @oipassoc.bsky.social members! They’ve developed 3 multimodal monographs for publication with leading uni presses, and all 3 have been recognized with major national or international awards 👏

Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team. We're seeking a fixed-term Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on our projects, including research, publishing and digitisation. Closing date 29 August. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🌟We have had some more #OpenAccess funding through @openbookcollective.bsky.social and couldn't be happier to have some new supporters as well as renewals from previous supporters! All are listed on our site here: uolpress.co.uk/about-us/pro... Thanks in particular to...

We've been making some updates to our website and you can now see which of our books have a Manifold version, meaning they can be read online, and which have an accessible version (an EPUB which meets WCAG Level 2.2 AA). Search away! uolpress.co.uk/books/

Join us for the launch of Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out on 26th Sept. The book is publishing in August, will be #OpenAccess and is published in association with @ihr.bsky.social. uolpress.co.uk/book/democra... Launch details 👇

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

👇Thank you @copim.bsky.social - this is a really great resource to help #OpenAccess presses to improve the #Accessibility of their publishing. compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...

New cover reveal! For the first book in our brand new History & Policy Shorts series... 'The 1922 General Election Reconsidered: High Politics and the Birth of the Modern British Election' by G.H. Bennett. Published #OpenAccess in association with @ihr.bsky.social. uolpress.co.uk/book/the-192...

📖 Very excited about the publication of this book, out in November... Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social: uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi... #OpenAccess @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

The Thriplow Charitable Trust has established a bursary for the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies by distance-learning. Apply by 1st August for the October 2025 intake. Learn more about the bursary here: www.london.ac.uk/study/fees-f... #RefugeeProtection #ForcedMigration

Who Owns Our Knowledge? 👁️‍🗨️ And how can communities reassert control over the knowledge they produce in the present moment? 📅 Get ready for this year's #OAWeek - October 20 - 26. 📖 Register for the OIPA newsletter for future info on OIPA community events: oipauk.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Interested in knowing where we stand on peer review and publication ethics, including AI use? It's all on our website: uolpress.co.uk/publish-with...

Well done to our member @uolpress.bsky.social who have received a 100% ASPIRE gold-rated score for the quality of their accessibility statement, demonstrating their efforts to actively embed accessibility into all aspects of their publishing work! Read more here: uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/embe...