UCL Press News & Views
First textbook in major new series on world and minority languages to publish this week
November 25, 2024
UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of the first book in the open access Textbook of World of Minority Languages series, marking a significant milestone in the teaching of world and minority languages.
Chances and Risks of Participation in dealing with Difficult Heritage
November 21, 2024
Florian Reitmann’s recent paper in AMPS explores a participatory process organised to deal with the highly contested former Nazi project Prora on the Baltic island of Rügen, which was carried out on behalf of the German government in 1996. The author…
History Education Research Journal publishes first article in new special series on history education in historical perspective
November 20, 2024
We are excited to share the news of the launch and publication of a new special series in History Education Research Journal about ‘History Education in Historical Perspective’.
The transformation of migration in Polish cities
November 18, 2024
For her new book, Polish Cities of Migration: The migration transition in Kalisz, Piła and Płock, Anne White carried out extensive in-depth interviews with Polish return migrants, Ukrainians and people from other countries living in the Polish cities…
Essential reading for COP29 from UCL Open Environment
November 15, 2024
From 11-22 November 2024, nearly 200 world leaders and 30,000 delegates will come together in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to coordinate global climate action for the year ahead at the latest UN Climate Change Convention Conference of the Parties (COP…
New series editor for Literature and Translation series
November 14, 2024
UCL Press is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Kathryn Batchelor as a series editor of the popular series Literature and Translation. Currently Professor in Translation Studies at UCL, she joins fellow editors Prof. Timothy Mathews and D…
The hidden health costs of ultra-processed foods
November 12, 2024
In Packaged Plants: Seductive supplements and metabolic precarity, published this month by UCL Press, authors Anita Hardon and Michael Lim Tam offer an absorbing ethnography and cultural history of how the production and consumption of plants for foo…
Episode 5 of The Greatest Good now available!
November 11, 2024
UCL Press Play is delighted to announce the release of the fifth – and final – episode of the podcast series The Greatest Good, which explores the lasting influence of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, whose radical progressivism was the intellectual i…
CfP: Urban Africa series
November 8, 2024
To celebrate World Urbanism Day, the editors of the open access Urban Africa series, co-published with the International African Institute, have opened a new call for proposals for new books.