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History Day 2025 reading list

Posted on 4th November, 2025

Senate House, part of the University of London, viewed from Store Street, Bloomsbury, London

To celebrate History Day 2025 at London’s Senate House this week, we’ve put together a reading list of essential open access books in history.

If you’re attending, Pat Gordon-Smith, our commissioning editor, will be there to talk you through our extensive list of published and forthcoming titles, and answer questions about how to publish your next open access book with UCL Press.

Join the UCL Press mailing list to find out more about the latest open access titles, or visit our stand!

History

The image depicts the cover of a book titled 'Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Deep Time, Creatures and Lost Worlds' which is edited by Chris Manias. It features an illustration of a large green sauropod dinosaur in a modern city park surrounded by people, with a cityscape and tall buildings, including one resembling the Empire State Building, in the background.

Museums and Heritage

The image displays the cover of the book ‘Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt’ by Alice Stevenson. The cover features an ancient Egyptian wall painting in the background with figures in traditional attire, and a modern white sculpture in the foreground.

Teaching History