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📣 New book cover!!!! INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors. It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised. uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

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I'm delighted that my first post on here can be about this, one of my favourite journals. Last year Radical Americas held a two day conference @ucl.ac.uk on Socialism and Indigeneity in the Americas, this series is one of two developed from the presentations.

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The Contemporary Indigeneity in the Americas series brings together high-quality papers that explore socialism and indigeneity in the Americas. Read the first paper in this series in Radical Americas: What’s at stake in the plurinational state debate? bit.ly/44MZv4e

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Cover reveal! ✨ Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa... There will also be a digital open access version 🙌 @uclpress.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke and the contributors featured in Covid’s Chronicities: From urgency to stasis in a pandemic era! This new #openaccess book published today. Read and download free: uclpress.co.uk/book/covids-...

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Great to be at the BSA annual conference last week - so many thought-provoking presentations! Really enjoyed sharing work with Hannah Grondelaers on friendship in precarious spaces, and with Giorgia Previdoli on community food support. @bsaecf.bsky.social @uclpress.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

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Test your knowledge of Parliament buildings. Book by @ukstaiger.bsky.social Claudia Sternberg and myself. @uclpress.bsky.social

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UCL Open: Environment is a non-commercial journal for anyone at knowledge-based universities, institutions & organisations. We invite submissions across all disciplines, as engagement from all will advance the greatest leaps & discoveries. Find out how you can submit here: ow.ly/cHxr50QKGaR

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Just a few weeks to go for expressions of interest in this series. journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/25/ This series seeks to hear from scholars pointing to instances of inclusive history education, decolonial history education or imagining history education otherwise.

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Happy to share my latest article in Radical Americas exploring the contested understandings of plurinationalism in Bolivia - journals.uclpress.co.uk/ra/article/p... @morton.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

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How do children develop a sense of history before formal schooling begins? This article in HERJ explores how children between the ages of 7 and 12 engage with the past in informal contexts offering insight into informal “everyday historical thinking”: doi.org/10.14324/HER...

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Resounding yes and now let’s explore how many societies maintained basic freedoms instead of why they never got so unequal; my modest contribution: journals.uclpress.co.uk/ai/article/i...

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By way of @[email protected] and Chuck Jones' AWOL blog, I see that this open-access ebook (available also in print) is now available: Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, and Phiroze Vasunia, eds. Classics and Race: A Historical Reader. London: UCL Press, 2025. doi.org/10.14324/111....

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Just saw something really interesting and worth reading (and not what I normally read) open access (2023) Parliament Buildings: The architecture of politics in Europe uclpress.co.uk/book/parliam...

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Nice!

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This book was much discussed at #ressdiff5 where Dr. Derbew spoke about bringing Africa into the Classics (and non-Classics) classroom, it's going to be a great resource #ancientbluesky

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This is an amazing resource: and free to download!!!

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How has the classical tradition shaped and been shaped by debates about race? Classics and Race: A historical reader examines this crucial relationship through historical primary sources. Download your free copy: bit.ly/40RV6JZ #OpenAccess

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If you are interested in the impact of the hostile environment, high in-country immigration application fees and the sheer complexity of the system, this open access book on Precarious Motherhood by @rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social is a must-read. uclpress.co.uk/book/precari...

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🎉 Announcement 🎉 Bookings are now open for the Open Science and Scholarship Festival 2025! In conjunction with our friends @crick.ac.uk, @lselibrary.bsky.social, @lsepress.bsky.social and @uclpress.bsky.social we have prepared a packed programme across the week of 2-6 June. buff.ly/fOm7KHZ

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amazing news! congratulations to the editors and contributors, and congratulations to all of us for this pedagogical treasure trove. I’m thinking of centering a class around this next year

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Note - these books are available freely to download...

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New #openaccess Classics and Race: A historical reader / Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia. eds. @uclpress.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/book/classic... @hogel.bsky.social @amaniras.bsky.social

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We are delighted to publish our Entente Cordiale special update on our open access @uclpress.bsky.social publication ‘Paper Trails: The Social Lives of Archives and Collections’ 🗃️ ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/3/?filt...

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New Open Access Book Announcement: An Anthropology of Architectural Transformation: The changing fabric of a Romanian block of flats by Maria Șalaru published by UCL Press. #MaterialCulture

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Open Access UCL Research: Kondakov, Alexander Sasha. Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia. FRINGE. UCL Press, London, 2022. xii + 231 pp. Figures. Tables. Notes. References. Index. £20.00; open access e-book [Review] discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

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Book Manuscript submitted! 🎉 The King’s Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British Table, 1760-1820 is off for a peer review at UCL press. Thanks to my fabulous coauthors for getting us to the end. Sarah Fox, Rachel Rich, and Lisa Smith.

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Congratulations to Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia and their contributors on the publication of their new #OpenAccess book Classics and Race today. Read and download free at: uclpress.co.uk/book/classic... #Classics #Race #IntellectualHistory

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UCL Press - all books R free 2 download & beautifully produced, should U feel minded 2 buy any. The books R also superbly edited by the @uclpress.bsky.social team! The best publisher I’ve published with by @ least a country mile, & one whose impact (download stats & maps) is easily demonstrable.

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Our Commissioning Editor, Pat Gordon-Smith, is at the British Sociological Association conference (BSA2025) in Manchester this week. If you're attending, Pat will be on hand to talk you through our #OpenAccess books, and to answer questions about how to publish your next open access book.

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Delighted to have a chapter in ‘Playing the Archive: from the Opies to the Digital Playground’ out now (open access) from UCL Press. This is a personal creative / critical one for me, exploring family history, cities, archives, memory, modernism and… hopscotch… uclpress.co.uk/book/playing...

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Disrupting the Speculative City Property, power and community resistance in London By Amy Horton, Joe Penny How a community coalition defeated one of the most ambitious programmes of state-led gentrification in London uclpress.co.uk/book/disrupt...

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