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Two forthcoming #ICwS events: Global Activism for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Challenges and Opportunities in the Anthropocene, 12 March 2025. Register for each here: commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #IndigenousPeoples #SelfDetermination #Anthropocene #EnvironmentalJustice #HumanRights

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Coming up with our friends at @oipassoc.bsky.social - a free webinar on an important topic, #metadata for #OpenAccess books! 📅Thursday 20th March at 15.00 GMT More details and registration: uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/even... #AcademicSky #Librarians #Books #Publishing #Training

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'Humanities research is dynamic, its boundaries porous, and its impacts significant and varied.' – Professor Jo Fox, Pro-Vice Chancellor at @uolondon.bsky.social and Dean and Chief Executive of the School of Advanced Study. uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/call... #HumanitiesFutures #OpenAccess

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This new book by @uolpress.bsky.social is nothing short but a monumental achievement on Latin American #liberationtheology! Among the most interesting (English) surveys in recent years! The chapter on Fals Borda by Díaz-Arévalo @sheffielduni.bsky.social is a gem. Foreword by M. Zechmeister at UCA.

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The University of London Press 2025 catalogue is now available! Browse all of our new titles, many of which are #OpenAccess, published across the #Humanities: uolpress.co.uk#flipbook-df_...

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📣Out today! 'Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary #LatinAmerica' edited by Pablo Bradbury and Niall H.D. Geraghty. Available to download now for free! You can also order it in print. Published with @ilcs.bsky.social. uolpress.co.uk/book/liberat... #OpenAccess

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If you're interested in receiving a quarterly update with our new books, details about free training sessions, publishing news and reviews, please sign up to receive our newsletter: uolpress.co.uk/about-us/sta... You can read our first newsletter of 2025 here: mailchi.mp/da18aeea0086...

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We're excited to have started receiving proposals for our #HumanitiesFutures book series! Please get in touch if you have an idea for this new #OpenAccess initiative on topics like the value of the humanities and the future of humanities disciplines. uolpress.co.uk/book-series/...

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Sign up for 2 exciting upcoming free training #webinars! 1 @emmagallon.bsky.social on 24th Feb with an intro to getting your research published #OpenAccess 2 @oipassoc.bsky.social & @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social on 20th Mar on good #metadata for #OABooks uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/even... #AcademicSky

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Pleased to see this report of #OpenAccess author case studies from @ukri.org which features our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series, published with @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.bsky.social - thanks for your comments @jfwinters.bsky.social! zenodo.org/records/1394... #OAPublishing #OpenResearch

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DEIA and Doing the Right Thing scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/11/d...

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'the humanities are relevant and they matter...They matter as we consider climate change, global mobility, social injustice, human rights, poverty, the values we hold, & what kind of society we want to be.' We've launched a new #OpenAccess series, Humanities Futures: uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/call...

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Call for Papers | Global Activism for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Challenges and Opportunities in the Anthropocene 12 March 2025, 11:30AM - 5:00PM, Room 261, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/call-... #CallforPapers #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights

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We look forward to publication, next month, of the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series for early career historians 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle, by Rachel E. Johnson, is out on 20 March bit.ly/4hMppbB 1/2 #skystorians

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Last night several members of our team were lucky enough to be at the inaugural National #Humanities lecture. @davidolusoga.bsky.social spoke brilliantly about the need for the humanities, public history and the work he's most proud of. Watch here (16:40 onwards): www.youtube.com/live/hbdDwDC...

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What are you currently reading? We'd love to see some academic TBR piles! We're happy that our copies of Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction have arrived! @ies-sas.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social @uolondon.bsky.social #AcademicSky #CurrentlyReading #BookSky #AmReading #TBR

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Discover our latest book, published with @ies-sas.bsky.social, edited by Karen Attar and Andrew Nash, and then read it online, download the PDF from our website or order it in print: uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/new-... #OpenAccess #AcademicSky #Literature #Books #Libraries

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Fictional BookSpaces - A new book about libraries - how they have been depicted in fiction over the years. I started reading it today - some curious and wonderful insights. #Library #Literature #Books

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Interested in getting your work published #OpenAccess but not sure about the different paths available? Join our free intro to OA publishing training session online on Monday 24th February with our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social. Book your place here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #AcademicSky

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This will be amazing - especially looking forward to the work here on ‘women who read “badly”’ and Shafquat Towheed’s chapter on negative representations of reading #bookhistory #publishing #openaccess

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Published today, Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction, edited by Karen Attar and Andrew Nash, explores how texts and reading spaces have been represented in fiction from the earliest times onwards. @ies-sas.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social #OpenAccess www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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#ComingSoon - our next book, in collaboration with our friends @uolpress.bsky.social: Southend, Victorian Town and Resort

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📢 Our Spring programme of events in the 'Thinking Strategically' series kicks off next month! First up is 'The Languages Gateway' - find out more about its development and intended purpose, and how it can function in the most effective way possible 🎙️ Charlotte Ryland 📅 14 Feb, 12-1:15 pm GMT

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Looking forward to the publication of Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction next week! 📚 Published in association with @ies-sas.bsky.social and #OpenAccess, this is a fascinating collection of essays covering fiction from the medieval period to the present. uolpress.co.uk/book/books-r...

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Huge congrats to @joshrhodes.bsky.social for this: inventive and ingenious data work at its finest, and open code too. If you want to see what it can do for Urban History, check out our article @uolpress.bsky.social, 'Beyond the Tracks' (read.uolpress.co.uk/read/beyond-...) 🗃️ #dh

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'European Socialists Across Borders: Transnational Cooperation and Alternative Visions of Europe After 1945' edited by Melanie Torrent and Andrew J. Williams is now available to be purchased or downloaded from our website for free: uolpress.co.uk/book/europea... #OpenAccess #History

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Publishing this week - European Socialists Across Borders: Transnational Cooperation and Alternative Visions of Europe After 1945, edited by Mélanie Torrent and Andrew J. Williams. Available to pre-order now. Read more: uolpress.co.uk/book/europea... #OpenAccess #History #Europe

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We were so honoured at @uolpress.bsky.social to win the inaugural History #OpenAccess book prize from ACLS and Arcadia last year for Simon Newman’s ‘Freedom Seekers’. This excellent piece by Sarah McKee explains how the prizes were developed and their importance 👇 katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

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Interested to see what we publish? In case you missed any of them, here's every book we published last year! The majority are Open Access, so can be downloaded or read online for free. uolpress.co.uk/2024/12/2024...

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To buy a copy of Wem - and to support the work of VCH in Shropshire - www.vchshropshire.org/Wem.html or pop over to our friends @uolpress.bsky.social.

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Happy new year! While people may choose to make resolutions for the year ahead, we are still committed to the values we came up with during our rebranding project. These include advocating for the humanities, and committing to responsible open research. Read the list: uolpress.co.uk/about-us/our...

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Taking a moment to reflect on some of our 2024 achievements and feeling that it's been a pretty good year🙏 uolpress.co.uk/2024/12/stop...

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Final book cover design of 2024! We look forward to publishing this new title in the VCH Shorts series in May 2025.

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Brilliant to see our amazing new @oipassoc.bsky.social Advisory Board announced today 🎉 A huge thank you from me and all of us on the OIPA Committee to all our Board members as we work on growing OIPA and developing its future strategy 🙏

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Some very exciting news - Becoming a Historian by Penelope J. Corfield and Tim Hitchcock has been named as one of the winners of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2024 Award! Thanks @choicereviews.bsky.social! uolpress.co.uk/2024/12/univ... #OpenAccess @ihr.bsky.social

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We can't wait for this to publish in January! Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction: uolpress.co.uk/book/books-r... Edited by Karen Attar and Andrew Nash, the book will be #OpenAccess and is published in association with @ies-sas.bsky.social.

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We're very proud of both our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social and author Simon P. Newman whose book Freedom Seekers won a very prestigious prize this year! Check out Emma's interview from the award ceremony in Baltimore where she talks about the publishing process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucfm...

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It was a pleasure to develop this joint @uolpress.bsky.social and @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social webinar a few weeks back on managing third-party materials in #OpenAccess books. Recording now available - with more materials to follow. Please share! #permissions #AcademicPublishing #humanities #books

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New blog by author @nicholasmaple.bsky.social on his recent #OpenAccess book ‘Refugee Reception in Southern Africa': www.africanlawmatters.com/blog/the-ong... @icws-sas.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social #Zambia #refugees #SouthAfrica

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A milestone! 🥳 20 titles now published in our #OpenAccess series with @ihr.bsky.social, New Historical Perspectives. Read about the series on the @royalhistsoc.bsky.social blog with some quotes from our Publisher & series editor, & see what's coming up. blog.royalhistsoc.org/2024/12/05/n...

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VIDEO RECORDING: The recording for 'From Permission to Publication: Managing Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books' is now available! Please watch and share: 📺 https://buff.ly/3Zm0FPW #OAbooks #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing @uolpress.bsky.social

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Why have we been told that 'adulthood is disappearing'? And why do millennials get all the blame? Read the new Royal Historical Society blog post by Maria Cannon & Laura Tisdall, editors of 'Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z': blog.royalhistsoc.org/2024/11/28/h...

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Just published! The 20th #OA title in the New Historical Perspectives books series for early career historians, published with @ihr.bsky.social and the RHS, edited by Maria Cannon and Laura Tisdall. Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z: uolpress.co.uk/book/adultho...

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Published with @icws-sas.bsky.social and the Human Rights Consortium, Capitalism, Colonisation and the Ecocide-Genocide Nexus by Martin Crook is available to read online, download as a PDF or purchase in print from our website: uolpress.co.uk/book/capital... #OpenAccess #HumanRights #ClimateChange

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Refugee Reception in Southern Africa is also available via our instance of @manifoldscholar.bsky.social! Read online here: read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/ref... #OpenAccess

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