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New homepage for our open access editions
June 19, 2024
We have just launched a new homepage where you can read and interact with enhanced open access editions of our books, powered by the Manifold platform. We currently have over 50 books available to read freely online on the platform, with more being a…
Read full postEVENT: The Future of Humanities Publishing
May 16, 2024
In March 2024 we spent a great evening hosting a panel event on ‘The Future of Humanities Publishing’ at Senate House, University of London. Our Head of Publishing, Paula Kennedy, chaired a fantastic expert panel exploring the challenges and opportun…
Read full postFreedom Seekers wins ACLS prize!
May 3, 2024
We’re excited to announce that Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London has received the inaugural 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award! This is a new award the American Council of Learned Soci…
Read full postEXPERIMENTS IN OPEN ACCESS
April 16, 2024
Access research from one of the largest interdisciplinary humanities projects We’re thrilled to offer early access to two chapters from our forthcoming book, Living with Machines: Computational Histories of the Age of Industry by Ruth Ahnert, E…
Read full postSeized Books! has launched
April 11, 2024
Senate House Library has launched an online exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the 1984 ‘Operation Tiger’ raids on London’s famous Gay’s the Word bookshop, when UK Customs and Excise officers confiscated over 140 titles, and thousands of poun…
Read full postONE MILLION DOWNLOADS!
March 7, 2024
What better day could there be than World Book Day to share that our Open Access titles have now reached over a million downloads! Nothing makes us happier than seeing our download numbers increasing – that’s more people, all over the world, who have…
Read full postThe fallibility of electronic evidence
January 11, 2024
‘The law needs to urgently move into the twenty-first century’ says author and barrister Stephen Mason ‘English justice is beyond satire’ Simon Jenkins wrote in a recent article for The Guardian describing, among other miscarriages of justice, the Po…
Read full postUniversity of London Press profiled in the Bookseller
December 5, 2023
We’re very pleased to have been profiled by the Bookseller as part of their University Press special issue! Our Head of Publishing, Paula Kennedy, spoke to the Bookseller’s Tom Tivnan about our strategy for growth, Open Access, and the challenges and…
Read full postCelebrating academic excellence: award-winning and nominated books from the University of London Press
November 3, 2023
At the University of London Press, we take great pride in publishing academic works that contribute significantly to their respective fields. It’s always a joy to see our authors’ hard work and dedication being recognised and celebrated within the sc…
Read full postINTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK 2023 – Nearing a million downloads!
October 28, 2023
As of our most recent update, our Open Access titles have been downloaded more than 984,873 times (you can read about how this data is captured on our Statistics page.) See any titles on our site that would be useful for your research? Download them…
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