Everyone at the Bentham Project is extremely saddened to learn of the recent death of Professor William Twining. We would like to extend our sincerest condolences to his family and friends. www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/profess...

CfP: The 18th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will take place on 23–5 July 2026 at the Faculty of Law, the University of Macau—celebrating the publication of 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar' in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. shorturl.at/z8qO3

Anyone who frequented the Jeremy Bentham pub (d. 2016) on University Street may recognise Bentham House's newest art installation

🚨 To Detain or To Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840 🚨 📅 Wednesday 3 September @ 5:30pm 📣 @kiranmehta.bsky.social discusses the diverse penal landscape of 18th century London. An incredible book using many TLA documents! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-detain-...

Scheduled for publication in 1 December, just in time to be rammed into Christmas stockings the world over, is the next volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham - 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar', ed. P. schofield uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...

Transcribe Bentham will be inaccessible from 12 pm BST on Wednesday 16 July, until around the end of Thursday 17 July, while we migrate to a new server with much larger storage. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. 🧰 Lots and lots of new manuscript material will be uploaded soon thereafter! 🥳

Now published by the Navy Records Society 🚢📘: —Samuel Bentham, Inspector General of Naval Works, 1796–1807, Letters and Papers, edited by Roger Morriss boydellandbrewer.com/book/samuel-...

A total of 44,413 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 128 in progress, and 1 awaiting review 👏

And a reminder that our final seminar for 2024-25 is on 25 June at 5:30pm (at the IHR in London and online), with David Turner speaking on 'Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long 18th Century'. Like all @ihrlibrary.bsky.social seminars, it's free and open to the public.

What a finish! Congrats to @jamesamilton.bsky.social, our UCL Laws Fantasy League champion earlier this month, edging out @divijualsuspect in a final-day thriller! 🏆 Both are our UCL Laws' candidates: PhD skills meet #FPL glory! ⚽️ shorturl.at/7KPJn

For tickets for our forthcoming conference, ‘Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and “A Picture of the Treasury”’ 📝 🖼️, which is taking place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, UCL, on 23–4 July, please visit our Eventbrite page: shorturl.at/SeT78

A total of 44,401 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 112 in progress, and 1 awaiting review 👏

'To be competent to the sacred trust of acting for the public, a man ought to have not merely a tongue to talk about the public—he ought to have a head to think for it and a heart to feel for it: a conception wide enough to take in every branch of the public interest [and] the minutest twig of it.'

A total of 44,386 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 120 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏

Now available: Xiaobo Zhai's article, 'Bentham on Laws in principem, Judicial Review, and the Public Opinion Tribunal: A Critique of Hart’s and Postema’s Criticisms', in Law and Philosophy. 🎉📝 link.springer.com/article/10.1... For the other part of his study, please visit doi.org/10.1017/S095....

Registration is now open for our conference ‘Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and “A Picture of the Treasury”’, which is taking place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London, on 23–4 July www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-picture-...

A total of 44,202 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 303 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Tom McDowell, 'Jeremy Bentham and the Neoclassical and Neoliberal Traditions: Architect or Adversary?'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My latest in @TheoryCulture argues that although Bentham is often seen as a forerunner of the neoliberal tradition, this overlooks how his mature theory of ‘psychological dynamics’ renders him its antithesis. @malrog.bsky.social, @timcauser.bsky.social, @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social

Places are still available for Multidisciplinary Mill(s), a conference on Tuesday May 20, dedicated to the ideas and influence of all the Mills: John Stuart Mill, James Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill and Helen Taylor. Register below ⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/multid...

A total of 44,131 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 364 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏

Doing transcription work on this project remains one of the most fun information history things I've ever done. I'm so excited to hear how close it is to completion!

Currently sitting in the Bentham Committee, hearing about Transcribe Bentham's ongoing progress. In total, 90.3% of the material on the Transcription Desk has now been transcribed! TB keeps trucking on... entering final stages to get the whole collection transcribed, maybe finished in 18 months...?

Now available in Utilitas: 📝👇 Xiaobo Zhai, 'Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms'. shorturl.at/YDrX1 (doi:10.1017/S0953820825000081)

Registration is now open for our conference ‘Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and “A Picture of the Treasury”’, which will take place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, UCL, on 23–4 July: shorturl.at/1qGBy An updated version of 'Picture' can be downloaded here: shorturl.at/8Y5rD.

On 3 and 4 July, the History of Parliament alongside The CRJ Research Group, University of Worcester are hosting a conference on the impeachment of Warren Hastings. It is free to attend and you can register your place below:

Sunny days call for Faculty football tournaments! 🌞 ⚽ Congratulations to the LLM team who reigned victorious over the LLB and staff squads. Shout out to fan favourite Prof Alex Mills and all the organisers and players!

A total of 44,091 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 361 in progress, and 10 awaiting review 👏

It was a great privilege to have facilitated a high-level exchange among legal experts from UK and Malaysia, who shared knowledge and expertise directly informing Malaysia’s potential institutional reform. Read more:

Calling all small presses! We are looking for our first ever Small Press in Residence @ucl.ac.uk. £5,000 to spend flexibly, access to outstanding collections, great facilities, and opportunities to collaborate with brilliant staff and students. Apply by 31 March: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/coll...

Call for Papers 📝: Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and ‘A Picture of the Treasury’. Taking place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London on 23–4 July 2025. For the CfP, visit shorturl.at/dIXem, where you will also find a link to the pre-publication text.

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

Join us for Professor Martins Paparinskis'lecture "The Development of International Law" on February 27, 2025, from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm GMT. Attend in person at UCL Faculty of Laws or online via live stream. Secure your spot now:

On March 7th we're doing an International Women's Day edition of our Bloomsbury Open Morning! Come see some rare books and archives related to the history of women's suffrage and the continuing fight for women's rights. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-morni... #London #RareBooks #Archives

'Jeremy Bentham on Drugs', by Greg Cote and Andrew D. Hathaway, has now been published in the Journal of Bentham Studies. 📣✍️📃 To read or download a free, open access version of the article, please visit the following link: journals.uclpress.co.uk/jbs/article/...

'Mr Bentham, knowing by sad experience the heads and the hearts he had to deal with ... saw that it was not safe for him ... to propose any thing—but to cast himself on the mercy of those who know not what it is to have mercy and ... take those who had vowed his ruin for the arbiters of his fate.'

Now available from Polity: 📚 👇 'Utilitarianism as a Way of Life: Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness' by Bart Schultz, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Chicago. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

A total of 44,005 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 360 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏

Call for Papers 📝: Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and ‘A Picture of the Treasury’. Taking place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London on 23–4 July 2025. For the CfP, visit shorturl.at/dIXem, where you will also find a link to the pre-publication text.

A total of 43,976 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 355 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏

'Never ... were eyes more widely open to illegality:—never were ears more obstinately shut against the warnings given of it:—never was any guilty path, once opened, pursued with more inflexible perseverance.' Bentham in 'A Picture of the Treasury', 24 April 1802 (UC cxx. 510).

A total of 43,964 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 358 in progress, and 1 awaiting review 👏

'The storehouse of mercy was in Flint Castle: my source of solvency was the pump at Aldgate. ... The terms granted me were the terms granted to the Carthaginians: and the fate of Panopticon seemed written in the fate of Carthage.' 'A Picture of the Treasury', UC cxxi. 141 (23 February 1802).

'Strong by another’s strength, I was no longer the defenceless reptile that might be trod upon, or shaken off as soon as felt. I might now become restive and difficult to manage. A cook, when she has been skinning eels, must frequently have found their writhings troublesome.'

A total of 42,983 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 1,062 in progress, and 5 awaiting review 👏

New material is now available on Transcribe Bentham, namely Boxes 56, 61, 64, and 65 of the Bentham Papers 🎉💃🎈📝 These contain Bentham's writings on judicial procedure, penal law, and part of a late work entitled 'Law Amendment' ⚖️ To view, visit: transcribe-bentham.ucl.ac.uk/td/Benthamom...

The Bentham Project @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social is hosting a conference entitled ‘Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and “A Picture of the Treasury”’, at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London, on 23 and 24 July 2025. CFP is at shorturl.at/iIsRZ

Imagine a production line for new writing by Hume or Hegel for researchers to get cracking on. That is what @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social and Bentham Project UCL do for Bentham.

Getting close to Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, 11-13 Dec, 13:00 - 18:00 UK time, free, online only. Organised by @shelleytremain.bsky.social (who put the programme together) and myself and hosted by the Blavatnik School. The fifth year! Register here: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/philo...