Save the date! 12 May at the @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social in Amsterdam. Hannes Rolf, Bart van der Steen and I will present Rent Strikes: A History of Collective Tenant Actions Across the World together with Sharon Houkema's exhibition on 1930s Amsterdam. Free entry.

uclpress.co.uk/book/postdig... Open Access

Free #ebook: ABC Learning Design: Active, blended, connected and beyond https://uclpress.co.uk/book/abc-learning-design/ More info & resources: https://abc-ld.org/ #learningdesign #openaccess #eddev

The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression and for its recent partial restoration. ‘Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region’ is the first book to explore what these changes have meant to those living on the sea’s shores uclpress.co.uk/keyword/aral...

Join us next week for the online book launch of 'A Grammar of Gaddi', a descriptive grammar of Gaddi, a Western Pahari Indo-Aryan language spoken in Himachal Pradesh and parts of Jammu. 🗓️ 6 May at 5pm BST 📍 Online www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @uclpress.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social

‘The marginalised speak in this book to tell you that they understand violence in a way that should serve as the basis for the politics of our cities.’ Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research & Correspondent for Globetrotter Read & download free: uclpress.co.uk/book/urban-v...

🔍 How is UCL Press governed? Our Open Access publishing is guided by four expert boards covering: 📘 OA strategy 📚 Books 📖 Textbooks 📝 Journals Together they ensure quality, transparency, and trust. 🔗 uclpress.co.uk/about-us/gov... #OpenAccess #UniversityPress #UCLPress

New journal alert! UCL Press has launched Advances in Perioperative Care (APOC), a Diamond Open Access journal that is free to read and free to publish in. Learn more journals.uclpress.co.uk/apoc @uclpressjournals.bsky.social

Perhaps I shld clarify: it was one of the larger born-OA presses (@uclpress.bsky.social) but a smaller press cf the commercials to which it was being compared There's an @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social blog series focusing on born-OA presses & prestige beginning soon, & some of the posts bring this up!

Please join us for the online book launch of 'A Grammar of Gaddi', a descriptive grammar of Gaddi, a Western Pahari Indo-Aryan language spoken in Himachal Pradesh and parts of Jammu. 🗓️ 6 May at 5pm BST 📍 Online www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @uclpress.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social

Congratulations to Hans Demeyer and Sven Vitse, whose #OpenAccess book Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment has published today. Read and download the book free: uclpress.co.uk/book/affecti...

What does it mean for research to be truly open? At UCL Press, it means peer‑reviewed books and journals that are free to read online and built to last. It means removing barriers so scholarship can travel further and be used more widely.

#LoveLD - got to love this new open book on ABC learning design: uclpress.co.uk/book/abc-lea... - with case study examples. #edchat #studychat #LTHEchat

We may be late to celebrate this - but this is still excellent news. The book can be purchased or downloaded @uclpress.bsky.social: uclpress.co.uk/book/ucl-at-...

We're so delighted to have published this book open access with the incredible team at @uclpress.bsky.social

🔊We have just released some additional tickets due to high demand! Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Russian Pendulum' (@uclpress.bsky.social) by Prof. Alena Ledeneva. 🗓️ 30 April at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

When philosopher Jeremy Bentham died, he bequeathed over 100,000 manuscript pages to @ucl.ac.uk But what do these pages contain, and how does UCL’s Bentham Project make sense of them?

🎨 What if the real mystery of art is not the artwork, but how we explain it?

great to see this out - uclpress.co.uk/book/abc-lea...

Congratulations to @clive-young.bsky.social @natasaperovic.bsky.social @leohavemann.bsky.social, Karen Shackleford-Cesare and all of the contributors to ABC Learning Design: Active, blended, connected and beyond which has published today! Grab your #OpenAccess copy: uclpress.co.uk/book/abc-lea...

ABC Learning design book is out! We hope you find it useful. Happy downloading! @uclpress.bsky.social @leohavemann.bsky.social @clive-young.bsky.social @timneumann.bsky.social @eileenkennedy01.bsky.social @jostroud.bsky.social @jus-saying.bsky.social @jourde.bsky.social

What happens when a political era defined by right wing populism comes to an end? Hungary has reached a pivotal moment. Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar’s Tisza party winning a two thirds majority according to independent reporting.

Wen Zhang's research paper They are "Bad", "Barbaric" and "Different": the Construction of Chinese Otherness in an Edwardian School History Textbook sprang from historic books in IOE's Special Collections. Her research is published in UCL Press's Paper Trails: ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article...

Great to Wen Zhang's article “They Are ‘Bad’, ‘Barbaric’ and ‘Different’: The Construction of #Chinese Otherness”publishd in 'Paper Trails'. It uses the 'Harmsworth History of the World' from the @ioelibrary.bsky.social #HistoricalTextbooks #SpecColl. ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article... #HistEd

UCL Press announces the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Critical #Heritage and Social Justice Redistribution, recognition and representation in context. Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/critica... #globalmuseum

mailer.ucl.ac.uk/cr/AQjvsBMQp... Quality Open Access books and journals from UCL (University College London) Press. Free to Download, an internet dream made real.

The latest in our spotlight series features Ian Caswell, Journals Manager at @uclpress.bsky.social Have a read to find out about his career journey within #OpenAccess publishing, his involvement with @ojcollective.bsky.social and how he unwinds from work. #DiamondOpenAccess #UCL

Didn't know this, thanks! And it's #OA. uclpress.co.uk/book/arabic-...

Tickled to learn from Rachel Mairs's excellent Arabic Dialogues that in Manchester in 1892 there was a disgruntled Arabic teacher from Baghdad named J.N. Farage.

The UCL Press office will be closed for Spring break from 5:30pm on Wednesday 1 April 2026 to 9:00am on Wednesday 8 April 2026. Our team will be offline during this time, but will pick up all messages once we are back.

I write about the Oura Ring in my latest piece: uclpress.co.uk/book/postdig...

Please join us to celebrate the launch of 'Russian Pendulum' (@uclpress.bsky.social) by Prof. Alena Ledeneva. Speakers: Benjamin Woodgates, @drseanhanley.bsky.social, Irina Petrova, Vladimir Pastukhov and Eva Ladipo. 🗓️ 30 April at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ Free and open to all: lnkd.in/erPWF8Yf

It’s been out a while now, but Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thcentury British travel to Spain and Portugal that is free to download here! uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...

I would encourage all #historyteacher colleagues to engage with this book. There are 6 enquiries explained in the book (with resources available for all) uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin... #HTEN2026 #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation

We had a wonderful book launch yesterday at UCL for Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice. Reflecting on its journey - some eight years! - alongside some of its contributors was very emotional. Our volume is available open access: uclpress.co.uk/book/creativ...

This brilliant new collection explores how we can experiment critically and creatively with thinking, feeling, and writing in our pursuits of social justice. You can download the book (for free!) here: uclpress.co.uk/book/creativ...

Informational Peripheries Rethinking the urban in a digital age Ayona Datta (Editor), Fenna Imara Hoefsloot (Editor) To understand the uneven, fragmented and disconnected geographies of urban peripheries in the Global South. uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

The brilliant team includes Lucy Briggs, Robert Davies, Hazel Genn, Lara Speicher, Sarah Sterlini, and of course Paul Ayris. The Volume can be purchased or downloaded from here uclpress.co.uk/book/ucl-at-... All proceeds from the sale of the book will support UCL200 scholarships.

A few days ago we launched our book UCL at 200: Two Centuries of Insight and Impact, which I edited with the support of a brilliant team. This book brings together more than 100 colleagues from across UCL and celebrates outstanding research of our community.

Book reviews from Italica 102.2: 📕 Simone Gugliotta reviews "Materialising the Roman Empire" @uclpress.bsky.social 📘 Heather Sottong reviews "On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante's Italy" @uoftpress.bsky.social 📚️ and more! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/iss...

We were honoured to gather to celebrate the life and work of Dr Paul Ayris, Pro-Vice Provost, @ucllccos.bsky.social, and UCL Press founder, and to mark the launch of his book Thomas Cranmer’s Register. Read more about the event and Paul’s extraordinary contributions: uclpress.co.uk/celebrating-...

Ahead of @uclpress.bsky.social book Student London launch next week see this piece for @uk.theconversation.com about the long history of student finance, including the invention of the student discount: theconversation.com/grants-loans... @ioe.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

Word count permitting, we included quite a bit on Jewish students in an attempt to make up for earlier omissions. Some great later oral history accounts (post 1945) of students going to Jewish homes and being served dishes like fried fish

So we know students ate things like pies, meat & potatoes at the taverns, others (non Jewish) record eating sausages of suspicious quality, and several report saving their money by buying cheap snacking food like buns & rolls. I don’t have detail on specifically 1820s Jewish students diets but…

It doesn't mention what they ate in the 1820s though

There are lots of references to Jewish students in the book uclpress.co.uk/book/student... @uclpress.bsky.social

For religious minorities at UCL, here's a link to Dr Griffith's thesis, 'The making and evolution of the University of London: expanding social and religious horizons' (h/t @guesnet.bsky.social). @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social ucl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu...

Fascinating piece for #UCL200 about student life at UCL in the 1820s, based on a new book you can read for free online. No mention of religion, so unclear if Jewish students also ate oysters, but Felicity Griffith's 2019 @uclhjs.bsky.social thesis might clarify here. www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...

The Bartlett in new UCL200 publications 📖 As part of UCL’s bicentenary celebrations, the Bartlett has contributed to two major books marking two centuries of ground-breaking discoveries and architectural history. 🔗 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/2026/feb/bartlett-features-ucl200-publications

A lovely evening at UCL celebrating the life of Paul Ayris and the publication of his new book. Tinged with sadness as we know how much he would have loved the party uclpress.co.uk/book/thomas-...