Great to see Morning Star review Walter Benjamin’s Ark by John Schad, praising its vivid, unsettling retelling of Benjamin’s life through his son Stefan. A fresh, powerful approach to life writing. Review: bit.ly/4rl61Hg Book: bit.ly/40UjAm4

Day 17 of 200: @uclpress.bsky.social new volume "Critical Heritage & Social Justice": insights and experiences of scholars & practitioners working across heritage, museums, galleries, and cultural institutions to explore how principles of social justice can be embedded within these spaces. #UCL200

Sarah - then worked onto a second book with UCL press - The King's Dinner: family nation and identity on the British Table uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin... - which will be open access #ORW2026

📢 @histedresearch.bsky.social is seeking Deputy Editors! 📢 History Education Research Journal (HERJ) is looking for active researchers to help shape open access history education scholarship and strengthen global debate. More info: journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/153/ @uclpressjournals.bsky.social

I'll be speaking in a panel with @eve.gd and @alittleroad.bsky.social on #OA books at the London Open Science & Scholarship festival in April. The event is online and can be booked now, see blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

We are very excited to share the full programme for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 and announce that bookings are officially open! ✨ Find all the details on the Open@UCL blog 👉 buff.ly/S7yECkO

UCL Press has achieved a gold rated 100% ASPIRE score for our accessibility statement. This recognises our work to improve accessibility across our open access books and journals and our commitment to clear, transparent support for all readers. Read more: uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-ac... #UCLPress

What does it take for an observatory founded to solve longitude at sea to become a leader in modern astrophysics? Lee T. Macdonald’s The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1881-1939 is out now and #OpenAccess - uncovering a transformative era in astronomy. New today: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-roy...

Lee MacDonald’s The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is available online uclpress.co.uk/book/the-roy...

IAS Book Launch: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice 19 March, 6-8pm This edited volume considers the role of storytelling and experimental, creative and often collaborative interventions across, between and beyond disciplines. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

What does it take for an observatory founded to solve longitude at sea to become a leader in modern astrophysics? Lee T. Macdonald’s The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1881-1939 is out now and #OpenAccess - uncovering a transformative era in astronomy. New today: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-roy...

Day 12 of 200: The first of our Free Open Access books for you! Today UCL loA Rachel King & Trinidad Rico (editors) "Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies" link, and more info, in today's story and do follow UCL Press for the link. #UCL200 📲 uclpress.co.uk/book/methods...

Have you listened to Climate Extinction Politics, the latest season of UCL Press Play? 🎧 This third season brought together leading UCL academics to break down not only the factors causing climate change, but also what we can do to stop it. Listen now: bit.ly/4kVdivO

To what extent can the biophysical world continue to provide the resources required to maintain human health? This recently published editorial provides the framework to discuss planetary health through an urban lens. Read the full editorial: doi.org/10.14324/111...

An edition of the Register of Archbishop Cranmer, edited by the late Paul Ayris, has now been published open access: uclpress.co.uk/book/thomas-...

Classics and Race: A Historical Reader free download ⤵️ uclpress.co.uk/book/classic... It should probably be titled "Early-modernists and Race," but it's still an interesting read.

I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

I’m at @wellcometrust.bsky.social for the launch of the book ‘Beyond the Visual’ @uclpress.bsky.social

The book forms part of the wider bicentennial programme #UCL200 and rewrites student experiences back into the history of higher education in London. There’s more about the project (which includes a video on ‘The Making of Student London’) here👇 @uclpress.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

Great evening yesterday @thelondonarchives.bsky.social where @profginab.bsky.social and Sam Blaxland presented on the methodology behind their book ‘Student London: a new history of higher education in the capital’ for #ArchivesforLondon

New from @uclpress.bsky.social, authored by academics from UCL - including the former director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery - and the Open University. @uclhistory.bsky.social, @ioe.bsky.social, @openuniversity.bsky.social See also: www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

Congratulations to @mostowlansky.bsky.social, Elmira Muratova, and everyone who contributed to Humanitarianism from Below? Universalism and the Politics of Inhumanity, which publishes today! Read and download it free: uclpress.co.uk/book/humanit...

Download free from here: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Written by leading scholars in the field, Humanitarianism from Below? forcefully illustrates that these humanitarian actors do not merely represent grassroots initiatives but have altered humanitarianism at large, involving alternative economies and politics.

Mostly invisible to Western publics, this humanitarianism has reshaped global landscapes of aid; from protecting Indigenous communities in Canada to African diasporic initiatives in response to the Ebola pandemic; from Islamic economies of giving to crowdfunding aid in Ukraine.

At the same time, around the world various humanitarian institutions and practices have flourished that remain outside this realm.

Since the late twentieth century, wealthy nations and international organisations have claimed a monopoly on humanitarianism. Even critical views of this regime of global aid and assistance have reinforced the image of a phenomenon shaped by Euro-American politics of life.

New book out in Open Access with UCL Press, co-edited with Elmira Muratova, with chapters on case studies ranging from Ukraine, Turkey-Afghanistan, diasporic West Africa, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan-Kuwait, and Indigenous Canada. Free download from the link in the thread.

New open access book publication 🔓 📖 Co-edited by @natashatanna.bsky.social @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice from @uclpress.bsky.social is grounded in a commitment to politically engaged research that moves beyond traditional scholarly forms

Universities must be at the heart of climate action, and not just through research and tech. In the final episode of Climate Extinction Politics, Prof Tristan McCowan highlights the power of community and grassroots initiatives. Listen: bit.ly/4rFnoDP #ClimateJustice

Did you catch Professor Ilan Kelman's episode of UCL Press Play, 'No Natural Disasters'? Watch the video below to hear Professor Kelman talk more about his episode, and how 'natural disaster' is a misexpressive phrase. Catch up with his episode now: lnkd.in/eYWz7NVf

Open access pdf uclpress.co.uk/book/underst...

A new publication celebrating 200 years of UCL is freely available via UCL press. See pages 74-75 for the Small Press Collections. uclpress.co.uk/book/ucl-at-...

As a @uclpress.bsky.social #DiamondOpenAccess journal – free to publish, free to read & community owned – we believe that open access only matters if it is accessible to all. Only by sharing research openly (for all) enables its widest impact & maximises benefits to humanity. Read more below 👇

Congratulations to Preeti Kumari, Shreya Mehta, Anjali Nair, Anusuya Nayak, Yangchen Roy and Vyom Sharma! Their new #OpenAccess #Textbook A Grammar of Gaddi published today. Read and download free at: uclpress.co.uk/book/a-gramm... #Gaddi #Linguistics #EndangeredLanguages

🔷Why join the Registry? “To enhance the visibility & discoverability of our #DiamondOA journals through trusted, open metadata and collaborate on sustainable, community-led publishing.” ➡️ Spot them in the Registry: bit.ly/4cxFtyB 💎 Showcase your organisation: registry.diamas.org

🔷We asked why #DiamondOA? "It removes financial barriers for authors & readers, enabling inclusive, global participation. It sustains community-owned journals, supports diverse scholarly communities, and aligns with UCL’s mission to make research openly available."

💎UCL Press publishes 16 community-owned, peer-reviewed #DiamondOA journals across many diverse disciplines. Their support goes beyond publishing, covering editorial services, journal development, indexing, platform hosting via #Janeway, PIDs & metadata, marketing & discoverability.

📣 EDCH Registry Spotlight! We’re excited to feature @uclpress.bsky.social @uclpressjournals.bsky.social a member of the Registry and the fully #openaccess university press of @uclpress.bsky.social, committed to barrier-free #scholarlycommunication.

Congratulations from everyone at the department to @hsw.bsky.social for publishing Creative Interventions for Social Justice! Open access here: uclpress.co.uk/book/creativ...

'Released to coincide with UCL’s 200th anniversary this week, its authors say that it seeks to “write higher education students back into the story of London and to focus on students and students’ unions as a neglected aspect of university history”.' Free to download from @uclpress.bsky.social 2/2

'Authors trawled through thousands of university newspapers, memoirs and interviews to research Student London: A new history of higher education in the capital, which they said is an attempt to re-examine the role students have played in the development of universities.' 1/2

Friday the 13th feels like the perfect day to explore how we talk about luck. Modern Luck examines modern stories of fortune and misfortune across literature, film and more. Read and download free: uclpress.co.uk/book/modern-...

UCL Press publishes UCL Open Environment, a diamond open access journal for environment research 🌍 Help us better understand what researchers value when choosing where to publish, and awareness of the journal. ⏱️ < 10 minutes 🎁 Prize draw 👉 Take the survey: bit.ly/4anusxc #ScholarlyCommunications

My work is part of this amazing open access collective volume by UCL Press edited by Natasha Tanna, Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez and Hakan Sandal-Wilson. Check it out now! Open access pdf doi.org/10.14324/111...

Happy 200th birthday, @ucl.ac.uk! 🎉 To mark the bicentenary, the Survey of London team at the Bartlett School of Architecture has published the first comprehensive account of UCL's architectural history. Available now in-store and as a free download via UCL Press: https://bit.ly/4bMEzy7 #UCL200

🎉 UCL turns 200 this week! 🎉 UCL Press has published UCL at 200: Two Centuries of Insight and Impact, featuring a section on UCL Grand Challenges with contributions from our Provosts and Directors. 📘 Read more: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/ucl-at-200/

Friday the 13th feels like the perfect day to explore how we talk about luck. Modern Luck examines modern stories of fortune and misfortune across literature, film and more. Read and download free: uclpress.co.uk/book/modern-...