UCL Press News & Views

The end of the year is nigh, and we’ve got one very exciting open access publication to share with you: Urban Transformations in Sierra Leone!

On the anniversary of her birth, the UCL Press journals team reflects on the life and works of Sylvia Townsend Warner. Born on 6th December 1893, Warner was an English novelist and poet. In 1925 Warner published her first collection of poetry,…

Find out how the word ‘blind’ can be an emotionally charged term, and how one patient took the news of worsening vision impairment in a surprising way.

The end of the year is nigh, and Winter is upon us (in the Northern hemisphere, at least). As things start to wind down for the end of year festivities, we’re here with news of four new open access books to devour in the quieter moments.

To celebrate the publication of Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory Text, we are delighted to publish an interview with the author, Dr Assaf Bar-Moshe.

Maren Tribukait’s recent article in History Education Research Journal asks how the topic of contemporary right-wing extremism is approached in German educational media, and how it is linked to the Nazi era. In this post, she explains what she learnt…

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.

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…

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’.