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Call for proposals: Digital Cultural Heritage book series
April 4, 2025
New Open Access series announcement Today, at the Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference at Senate House, we announced details of a new book series, Digital Cultural Heritage. This series is a forum for exploring the past, present a…
Read full postUniversity of London Press joins Thoth!
March 12, 2025
Another step in our mission to ‘open up humanities research’ We are pleased to announce our new partnership with Thoth, a metadata management and distribution platform built specifically for open access book publishers. Our move to join Thoth marks a…
Read full postUOLP on UKSG’s podcast
March 5, 2025
Our Head of Publishing is interviewed on ‘Knowing me, Knowing UKSG’ The popular podcast series developed by UKSG interviews professionals working in scholarly communications – including publishers and librarians – to help show different career paths…
Read full postEVENT: Good metadata practice for open access books webinar
February 12, 2025
Free training webinar hosted by OABN and OIPA As part of our role within the Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA), we are helping to organise this free webinar with the Open Access Books Network. The webinar will feature a panel of expert…
Read full postCall for proposals: Humanities Futures book series
February 10, 2025
We are delighted to announce the details of our exciting new book series, Humanities Futures, and to invite book proposal submissions. Humanities Futures is a new book series that advocates powerfully for the value of the humanities and their v…
Read full postNew book explores the depiction of libraries in fiction, from Don Quixote to Discworld
February 3, 2025
Our latest title, Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction looks at how texts and reading spaces have been represented in popular culture throughout history. The new book presents chronological essays on the depiction of books, librari…
Read full postStop press! Taking a moment to reflect on 2024…
December 19, 2024
2024 was a big year for the University of London Press and we decided we couldn’t let the end of the year go by without reflecting on a few of the most significant highlights… We started the year with the exciting news that our Open Access books had…
Read full post2024 in books
December 19, 2024
This post includes every book published by the University of London Press this year! 11 titles, published across a number of humanities disciplines, including History, Classics, Human Rights and Languages, Cultures and Societies. 9 of the 11 are avai…
Read full postUniversity of London Press book named as one of the winners of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2024 Award
December 18, 2024
We are pleased to announce that one of our University of London Press books has been named a winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2024 Award: Becoming a Historian by Penelope J. Corfield and Tim Hitchcock Choice Outstanding Academic Titl…
Read full post‘Richly deserved’: Reflecting on Freedom Seekers and the ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award
November 19, 2024
Earlier this year, we were excited to announce that Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London by Simon P. Newman had won the ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award, an award that highlights exceptional…
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