UCL Press News & Views

September marks the start of a new academic year, and UCL Press welcomed it with a selection of five new open access titles. September’s releases spanned museum studies, pedagogy, urban knowledge co-production, Victorian collecting, and children’s we…

What can a preserved animal specimen tell us about colonialism, extinction and even genocide? In this blog post, Thomas Kador reflects on the themes of his recent book Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education and consider…

mark European Day of Languages, Kasia Łanucha and Alexander Bleistein consider the changing needs of ab initio language learners in UK universities in this excerpt from their chapter in Ab Initio Language Teaching in British Higher Education: The Cas…

To celebrate this week’s British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference in Brighton, we’ve curated a selection of must-read open access books and journals from UCL Press.

August is traditionally a time to relax – but we haven’t slowed down! Six brand new open access books have landed this month, covering everything from blindness to Soviet youth games, historical travel to democracy.

July’s sunny weather wasn’t an excuse to relax at UCL Press – we’ve been busier than ever with five new open access books! Covering topics from historical memory and mental health to kinship, sensory heritage, and literary masculinity, these titles a…

Have you downloaded Encountering Pain? Would you be happy to take part in a short survey about the impact of this work? If so, we’re looking for your help!

History Education Research Journal (HERJ) invites scholars, educators, and researchers to contribute to a new open access special series set for publication from mid-2026: Narrative Competence, History & Responsibility.

We are delighted to share that UCL Open Environment has been accepted for indexing in Scopus, one of the world’s leading abstract and citation databases. This milestone follows a rigorous evaluation process and marks a significant step in the journal…