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To celebrate International Day of Education 2025, UCL Press’s journals team share a range of essential articles on this year’s theme: AI in education

In an era of educational reform, Peter Blatchford and Anthony Russell ask ‘Does class size matter?’

Today we are excited to publish Paleontology in Public, edited by Dr Chris Manias. This exciting new book considers the connections between palaeontology and public culture across the past two centuries. In so doing, it explores how these public dime…

Today marks the second inauguration of Donald Trump as US President, following his previous controversial stint from 2017 to 2021. To mark the occasion, we take a look back at how social media (in particular Twitter, now known as X) fuelled Trump’s a…

Today marks the publication of a new book from UCL Press: Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt by Professor Alice Stevenson. We are delighted to celebrate this new open-access publication by sharing an interview with Alice, exploring her…

The debate on the decriminalisation and legalisation of drugs has been long-running and hotly contested for many years. In an article that originally appeared appeared on the blog of The Journal of Bentham Studies to accompany his new article Jeremy…

In a recent article in History Education Research Journal, Sarah Holland uses practitioner research to advocate rethinking assessment in history, and asks how ‘creative’ or ‘innovative’ approaches to assessment can make this a more effective and mean…

Robert Yeates, author of  American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, discusses pivotal themes explored within his book to celebrate National Science Fiction Day.

Charlotte Al-Khalili spent three years embedded with Syrians displaced to the Turkish border after the 2011 uprising. She found a people continuing to resist and evidence of a permanent ’ revolution. The voices she presents in this ethnography have d…