Book for review in Ab Imperio: A. Austin Garey. Leagues of Laughter War, Comedy and the Soviet Legacy in Russia and Ukraine. London: UCL Press, 2025. 214 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-879-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Happening TODAY at 17:05 CEST: 'Hello from the other side: What’s the story from fully open access book publishers?' #OASPA2025 @oaspa.bsky.social Join @nielsstern.bsky.social & panellists from Amherst College Press, Firenze University Press, @uclpress.bsky.social & University of Johannesburg Press

At the start of the new term, we reflect on this video from Professor Gurusamy as he explains how his textbook A Guide to Performing Systematic Reviews of Health and Disease is structured and why he wrote it. Download free at: 👉 uclpress.co.uk/book/a-guide... #EvidenceBasedMedicine #OpenAccess

Congratulations to Claire Cameron! Her #OpenAccess book open access Urban Childhoods published today. Read and download free from bit.ly/4lHiq6v #ChildWellbeing #InnerCity

Interested in what our journals team is doing? Follow them @uclpressjournals.bsky.social!

New book from Vanesa Castán Broto + collaborators Co-production of Knowledge in Action Emancipatory strategies for urban equality (OPEN ACCESS with UCL Press) uclpress.co.uk/book/co-prod...

The power of #IOpenAccess!

📚 For #PeerReviewWeek, Amy Lynn spoke with Claire Cameron and Gabriel Eichsteller, editors of International Journal of Social Pedagogy, about the value of peer review and how it reflects the journal’s core principles. @uclpressjournals.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/4peVhdF #OpenAccess #UCLPress

Our new #OpenAccess eTextbook Object-Based Learning is the perfect intro to this diverse & growing field. Watch the video below to hear author Thomas Kador speak about the benefits of reading his book: youtu.be/TdBQ-2Ai1VM?... Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/object-... #ObjectBasedLearning #Museums

A new book by @helengraham.bsky.social – Deconsituting Museums: Participation’s Affective Work – has been published by @uclpress.bsky.social Dr Helen Graham’s book explores why participation – the direct involvement of non-museum staff in museums – has been so hard. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/new...

...and it's #OpenAccess over at uclpress.co.uk/book/deconst...

Congratulations to Cassidy Johnson and Colleagues! Their #OpenAccess book Deconstituting Museums published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/4o60yUs #Museums #Heritage #ParticipatoryResearch

Thanks for a brilliant #BERA2025 in Brighton! 🌊📚 It was great to meet so many readers, authors & future authors. Missed the UCL Press stand? Browse our #OpenAccess education books & journals online: 🔗 bit.ly/41ImIlZ #EducationResearch #BERAConference

How does our environment affect mental health? 🧠 For #OpenScienceWeek (15th–21st Sept), explore UCL Open Environment’s open collection on the effects Covid-19 and the environments in which we lived during the pandemic had on mental health. Read here: bit.ly/4lDS5VK

Thanks for a brilliant #BERA2025 in Brighton! 🌊📚 It was great to meet so many readers, authors & future authors. Missed the UCL Press stand? Browse our #OpenAccess education books & journals online: 🔗 bit.ly/41ImIlZ #EducationResearch #BERAConference

📚 Great to see series editor Jennie Golding at #BERA2025! She joined us at the UCL Press stand with our Knowledge and the Curriculum books. 📖 Discover the series: uclpress.co.uk/book-series/... #OpenAccess #EducationResearch #CurriculumStudies t.co/pavAkger0Y

Great to see Mary Richardson, author of Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment, at #BERA2025! Her book explores how to restore trust in assessment systems. 📖 Read it here: bit.ly/3JXDhnW #OpenAccess #EducationResearch #Assessment

@hollyfur.bsky.social You and some of your museum peeps might be interested in this. (I know Helen, and this will be good)

Congratulations to Helen Graham! Her #OpenAccess book Deconstituting Museums published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/411oeiG #Museums #Heritage #ParticipatoryResearch

📚 Adopted one of our #OpenAccess textbooks? We’d love to hear from you! Your feedback helps us improve, celebrate impact & support global learning. 📩 Email us: [email protected] 🔗 Browse titles: bit.ly/44PD0LO #OER #AcademicPublishing #UCLPress

📖 New #OpenAccess book! "Marriage Matters" explores #love, commitment & belonging in #Uganda. Edited by Lotte Meinert, Julaina A. Obika, and Nanna Schneidermann; Published by @uclpress.bsky.social #OA #Anthropology uclpress.co.uk/book/marriag...

New from @uclpress.bsky.social: 'Beyond the Visual: Multisensory modes of beholding art' Ken Wilder, Aaron McPeake (Eds) 'Beyond the Visual broadens the discussion of multisensory ways of beholding contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on modes that transcend a dependency upon sight.'

#OutNow: Object-Based Learning by Thomas Kador This textbook offers an up-to-date perspective on the theories and practices of object-based learning, as well as practical case studies & exercises. Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/object-... #ObjectBasedLearning #MaterialCulture #Museums

New open access book: Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education (UCL Press). A concise overview of some of the most important approaches to material culture and object analysis Download FREE👇 uclpress.co.uk/book/object-... #globalmuseum #museums #publications #education

Heading to #BERA2025 in Brighton? 📚 Check out our curated list of open access books & journals from UCL Press: bit.ly/41ImIlZ Meet Pat Gordon-Smith & Ian Caswell at our stand to explore titles and learn about publishing your next open access work!

📘 UCL Press has led the way in open access publishing. Our textbooks are free to download worldwide. Covering diverse disciplines, each title is peer-reviewed & student-focused, supporting hybrid learning. Explore more: bit.ly/44PD0LO #OpenAccessBooks #Textbook

Hot off the press: The Sciences of the Democracies Jean-Paul Gagnon, Benjamin Abrams et al., UCL Press uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci.... DOI: doi.org/10.14324/111...

My co-authored chapter: "Sounds from the roots," UCL Press, is now available at the link below. The chapter explores the use of soundscape simulation to move beyond heritage ocularcentrism in the architectural reconstruction of Sabīl Ismaʽil al-Maghlawī, Cairo, Egypt. dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...

A book of conversations with people who lived during the Third Reich. You can download it for free as it is an open book from UCL Press. #EduSky

The #ZARAH project's collective monograph, "Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond. A new transnational history" is out with UCL Press. Congrats to the authors! 🗃🗃📚 uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...

📚 Adopted one of our #OpenAccess textbooks? We’d love to hear from you! Your feedback helps us improve, celebrate impact & support global learning. 📩 Email us: [email protected] 🔗 Browse titles: bit.ly/44PD0LO #OER #AcademicPublishing #UCLPress

#OutNow: Object-Based Learning by Thomas Kador This textbook offers an up-to-date perspective on the theories and practices of object-based learning, as well as practical case studies & exercises. Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/object-... #ObjectBasedLearning #MaterialCulture #Museums

Our readers are talking about the 'Fourth Theorist' of democracy. This person is yet to exist. They will be the first to theorize from thousands of practices and millions of texts/other on democracy. Is this a type of theorist we want/need? 🦄 Read open access: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-scien…

A globe in the atrium and global reach online. As the Gaia installation draws eyes at UCL East, UCL Press celebrates its 20 millionth open access download – marking 10 years of freely accessible research. 👉 Find out more here: uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-an...

Our Artistic Director, Maria Oshodi, has a produced a chapter in 'Beyond the Visual', which forms part of one of her PhD thesis case studies. You can download a free copy or purchase on the link below uclpress.co.uk/book/beyond-...

Hier kann das Buch kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. uclpress.co.uk/book/leagues... 19/22

verbundener, grenzüberschreitender Geschichten aus 60 Jahren veranschaulicht, wie Lachen und Unterdrückung im langen kulturellen Kontext des Krieges in der Ukraine miteinander verflochten sind“, heißt es im Klappentext. 18/22

Zusammenbruch der UdSSR blieb die Show populär. „Auf der Grundlage von Feldforschungen in Russland und der Ukraine zwischen 2015 und 2019 vergleicht Garey die KVN-Traditionen in zwei postsowjetischen Nationalstaaten, die sich im Krieg befinden. Eine Reihe miteinander 17/22

Die Anthropologin A. Austin Garey hat sich genauer mit KVN (Club der Fröhlichen und Cleveren) beschäftigt. KVN wurde in den 1960ern in der Sowjetunion gegründet. Dort konnten sich junge Comedy-Talente ausprobieren (einer von ihnen war auch Wolodymyr Selenskyj). Auch nach dem16/22

I am so excited to share the news that after many years of research & writing the collaborative monograph of the project #ZARAH #Women'sLabourActivism is out today with @uclpress.bsky.social ! It is available in print and online (open access). uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...

I gave a short interview about 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴, a collaborative monograph I co-authored (lead @jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social), published #OpenAccess by @uclpress.bsky.social over the summer: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... Full book: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

It's publication day! Leagues of Laughter illustrates how laughter and oppression entwined in the long cultural context of the war in Ukraine. Open access download at uclpress.co.uk/book/leagues... with @uclpress.bsky.social, hardback and paperback for sale too

The Great Fire of London breaks out in the early morning hours #otd 1666, ultimately engulfing 13,000 houses, scores of buildings & nearly 90 churches. Explore more on history & humanities with MUSE and a free book @uclpress.bsky.social - bit.ly/lGreatFire #openaccess #oa #ReadUP

Congratulations to Ken Wilder and Aaron McPeake! Their #OpenAccess book Beyond the Visual published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/3I1j2EI #Curation #Accessibility

Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th

Funded by a Leverhulme Research Project Grant, Rosemary Sweet and @richardjansell.bsky.social's new book explores a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to Europe. Read now: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...

This looks good!

New book by our editor Roey Sweet and Richard Ansell!

Congratulations to Rosemary Sweet and @RichardJAnsell! Their #OpenAccess book No Country for Travellers? published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4kJYgIl #TravelWriting #EighteenthCentury #Spain #Portugal

Miniatures ❤️ uclpress.co.uk/book/worlds-...