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And here's the link to the book itself, Donington, Mohamud, Whitburn and Draper (authors), Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past. Available in paperback but also free to download as a PDF from @uclpress.bsky.social . 2/2
Teaching Slavery
Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.
Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past
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December 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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#Online Ressource | Natalia Romik’s: #Architecture of #Memory: Exploring (Post-) Jewish Spaces in Eastern Europe now available in Open Access| UCL Press

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Architecture of Memory
Architecture of Memory explores architectural disappearance, urban remembrance and functional change amid social upheaval. Using archival, architectural and artistic methods, Natalia Romik investigate...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Indeed! And a reminder that the _ Classics and Race: A Historical Reader_is open access and has a lot of her! uclpress.co.uk/book/classic...
December 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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John Schad, Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography – @uclpress.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access)
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Walter Benjamin’s Ark
In July 1940, amidst fear of Nazi invasion, HMT Dunera left England. On board were a few British soldiers guarding over 2000 interned male Enemy Aliens, mostly Germans. Some of the internees were pass...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Join Professor Philip Schofield and Dr Jane Gilmour in the latest episode of Beautiful Minds as they debunk the myths around Tourette's.

Listen now: bit.ly/448WE4H

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December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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📘 New #OpenAccess book alert!
"The Chronopolitics of Life": An interdisciplinary look at how #temporalities, #bodies, and #power relations shape #health.

#Anthropology #Biomedicine
December 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Congratulations to Nolwenn Bühler, Nils Graber, Victoria Boydell and Cinzia Greco. Their #OpenAccess book The Chronopolitics of Life published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/4456tk0 #Health #Anthropology #Ethnography
The Chronopolitics of Life
The Chronopolitics of Life represents an important, timely and novel contribution in the fields of anthropology, social sciences of medicine, science and technology studies and cognate disciplines. By...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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New from @uclpress.bsky.social , a very important, #OpenAccess book:

Teaching Slavery
New approaches to Britain’s colonial past

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#History #EnslavedHistory
Teaching Slavery
Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Published today - 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar' edited by Philip Schofield, the latest volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham

Available in hardback, paperback, and as a free open-access PDF from UCL Press: uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...
The cover of a book reading 'The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar', edited by Philip Schofield' and with the UCL Press logo. The writing is in gold on a blue background
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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We are excited to announce that UCL Press will publish the renowned Survey of London series, starting with University College London: The Bloomsbury Campus in Spring 2026.

Learn more: bit.ly/48i8haI

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UCL Press to publish the Survey of London series
Discover the Survey of London’s new open-access chapter with UCL Press. The first volume, University College London: The Bloomsbury Campus, launches Spring 2026, celebrating UCL’s architectural herita...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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CFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky
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December 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Latest Open Access release in the Collected Writings on Jeremy Bentham issued by @uclpress.bsky.social
for the Bentham Project
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Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar
This new volume of Bentham’s philosophical writings deals with his most fundamental ideas concerning logic, language, ethics, and grammar. It includes four major essays written between 1814 and 1816, ...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Ce qui s'annonce un chouette livre vient d'être publié en s'appuyant sur les archives des Opie sur le folklore enfantin : uclpress.co.uk/book/playing... 🤓 (et en plus c'est en open access)
Playing the Archive
Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the digital playground reflects on a major study inspired by the work of citizen scholar folklorists Iona and Peter Opie. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Opies built...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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"Unearthing Collections" invites readers to reconsider the #ethics of collections and #archives through the lens of temporality. Edited by Magdalena Buchczyk, Martín Fonck, Tomás J. Usón & Tina Palaić

Read this new book #openaccess!

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Unearthing Collections
Unearthing Collections invites readers to reconsider the ethics of collections and archives through the lens of temporality. Drawing on case studies that range from community protests over glacial sam...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Powerful historical and history-pedagogic knowledge on a vital topic from leading figures in both fields, open access fom UCL Press.

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Congratulations 2 CPA's own Robin Whitburn & Abdul Mohamud, 2 Kate Donnington & Nicholas Draper, & 2 our @uclpress.bsky.social colleagues, on the publication of this remarkable & important book - Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain’s colonial past. Open access uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Congratulations to Philip Schofield! His #OpenAccess book Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/3K1HSWt #Philosophy #Law #Bentham @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social @laws.ucl.ac.uk
Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar
This new volume of Bentham’s philosophical writings deals with his most fundamental ideas concerning logic, language, ethics, and grammar. It includes four major essays written between 1814 and 1816, ...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Publication Day 📖💃🎉

Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar, the latest volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, has today been published by @uclpress.bsky.social.

Now available in free, open-access .pdf, and in hardback and paperback: uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Congratulations 2 CPA's own Robin Whitburn & Abdul Mohamud, 2 Kate Donnington & Nicholas Draper, & 2 our @uclpress.bsky.social colleagues, on the publication of this remarkable & important book - Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain’s colonial past. Open access uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Annual shameless Xmas or other seasonal holiday gift suggestion for those interested in any of material culture, empire or British country houses. Over 500 pages & 100 illustrations. Paperback a mere £30. (Alternatively, free to download from @uclpress.bsky.social or @jstor.bsky.social ).
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a ...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Are you teaching Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic?

Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory Textbook by Assaf Bar-Moshe @OCHJSnews is available as a free download.

👉 bit.ly/3Eo1DVm
Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic
Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic was the native tongue spoken by the Jews of Baghdad and other towns of Southern Iraq, historically one of the oldest and biggest Jewish communities. This textbook is dedicated to...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Congratulations to Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn, Nicholas Draper and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Teaching Slavery published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/48vnDdJ #Education #Colonialism #Slavery #Racism
Teaching Slavery
Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Congratulations to Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn, Nicholas Draper and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Teaching Slavery published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/48vnDdJ #Education #Colonialism #Slavery #Racism
Teaching Slavery
Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Unearthing Collections: Archives, time and ethics.
Download it free.👇
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November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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👑 The King's Dinner 🍰 will be out this June.

It's our attempt at a truly digital history monograph. Our goal is to tell history. Our approach was to apply digital humanities methods to our historical questions.

I think we've done a good job, and I hope you like it.

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The King’s Dinner
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on a large, open dataset of two royal household kitchen ledgers, the authors study the role and inf...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM