🎓 UCL Laws Alumni Weekend 2026 🎓 Join us in Bloomsbury from 8-10 October 2026 to reconnect with classmates, revisit Bentham House, and celebrate 200 years of UCL with a packed programme of special events. ✨ Explore the programme and book your place: tinyurl.com/2w6htuwc

Just in case you have time on your hands, and love the challenge of transcribing unreadable handwriting, and fancy contributing to completing the project of producing the collected works of Jeremy Bentham .... @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

'Transcribe Bentham began in 2010, and another 20,000 or so manuscript pages require transcription. We’d like to invite your readers to help us complete the project and to explore the writings and correspondence of a figure of enormous historical importance.' #Skystorians

Have you engaged with projects such as @zooniverse.bsky.social? One of my PG students is doing a user-centred study on how and why people engage on virtual/online/digital citizen science projects. Can you spare some time to help them? cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #pleasebekind

The Bentham Project's Professor Philip Schofield features in the latest UCL Press Play podcast 'A Cup of Tea with...', entitled 'Inside the Head of Jeremy Bentham'. Please visit: uclpress.co.uk/podcast/insi...

Inside the Head of Jeremy Bentham: A Cup of Tea with Professor Philip Schofield

Join Profs Judy Stephenson and Philip Schofield as Prof Schofield discusses the views of Jeremy Bentham, and the Bentham Project

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'Transcribe Bentham began in 2010, and another 20,000 or so manuscript pages require transcription. We’d like to invite your readers to help us complete the project and to explore the writings and correspondence of a figure of enormous historical importance.' #Skystorians

Join the crowd digitising Jeremy Bentham | Letter

Letter: Dr Tim Causer invites readers to help complete a transcription project and to explore the writings and correspondence of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham

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Publication Day 📖🍾🪩🎉: 'The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 14: Supplementary Letters', ed. P. Schofield, T. Causer, and C. Riley, is now available in open access from UCL Press (@uclpress.bsky.social). Available in hard/paperback, or free .pdf: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-cor...

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 14

This volume, which supplements the main chronological series of The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, contains 252 letters written to and from Jeremy Bentham, 19 letters written to and from individual...

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10 new boxes of Bentham manuscripts from the Bentham Papers at UCL have now been uploaded to the Transcription Desk on Transcribe Bentham, namely Boxes 77, 83, 99, 134, 136, 155, 158, 170, 171, and 173, containing a total of 2,880 pages. 📝📣🎉 transcribe-bentham.ucl.ac.uk/td/Transcrib...

We were honoured to gather to celebrate the life and work of Dr Paul Ayris, Pro-Vice Provost, @ucllccos.bsky.social, and UCL Press founder, and to mark the launch of his book Thomas Cranmer’s Register. Read more about the event and Paul’s extraordinary contributions: uclpress.co.uk/celebrating-...

Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr Paul Ayris

Celebrating the life and legacy of Dr Paul Ayris and the launch of his open access book Thomas Cranmer’s Register while recognising his lasting impact on UCL and open science.

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As @ucl.ac.uk celebrates its bicentennial this year, UCL Press explores the life and legacy of its spiritual founder, Jeremy Bentham. Explore the legacy of Jeremy Bentham on the Journal of Bentham Studies blog: journals.uclpress.co.uk/jbs/news/159/ @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social

Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨ #UCL200 #LoveUCL

A total of 44,796 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 5 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏

On the journal blog, author Steven Sverdlik discusses his two articles: Bentham’s Utilitarian Penal Code journals.uclpress.co.uk/jbs/news/146/

Transcribe Bentham@transcribe-bentham.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The second part of Steven Sverdlik's article on Bentham and punishment, entitled 'Bentham’s Project of Applied Ethics, c. 1780: A Penal Code. Part 2: Punishment', has now been published in the Journal of Bentham Studies by @uclpressjournals.bsky.social. 📃✍️ doi.org/10.14324/111...

Coming soon from UCL Press (@uclpress.bsky.social), 'The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 14: Supplementary Letters', edited by P. Schofield, T. Causer, and C. Riley. ✉️📖 ft. 252 letters written to/from Bentham, and 19 others of biographical interest: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-cor...

The second part of Steven Sverdlik's article on Bentham and punishment, entitled 'Bentham’s Project of Applied Ethics, c. 1780: A Penal Code. Part 2: Punishment', has now been published in the Journal of Bentham Studies by @uclpressjournals.bsky.social. 📃✍️ doi.org/10.14324/111...

Three new boxes of Bentham manuscripts are now available to read and transcribe on Transcribe Bentham, namely Box 40, 46, and 53, containing some of Bentham's Constitutional Code and some of his writings on judicial evidence and procedure 📜🖋️ transcribe-bentham.ucl.ac.uk/td/Benthamom...

CFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky

Published today - 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar' edited by Philip Schofield, the latest volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham Available in hardback, paperback, and as a free open-access PDF from UCL Press: uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...

Congratulations to Philip Schofield! His #OpenAccess book Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/3K1HSWt #Philosophy #Law #Bentham @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social @laws.ucl.ac.uk

Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar

This new volume of Bentham’s philosophical writings deals with his most fundamental ideas concerning logic, language, ethics, and grammar. It includes four major essays written between 1814 and 1816, ...

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Publication Day 📖💃🎉 Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar, the latest volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, has today been published by @uclpress.bsky.social. Now available in free, open-access .pdf, and in hardback and paperback: uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...

Excited to share this open access article about Bentham & Wakefield: 2 men who shaped South Australia's colonisation/ invasion. Made possible by the @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social Bentham Project at UCL and kind feedback from colleagues. Modern Intellectual History www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New publication in the Journal of Bentham Studies (@uclpressjournals.bsky.social) 📝📣: —E.K. Ollikainen-Read, 'Jeremy Bentham and the Communication of Legal Authority: The Indian Penal Code of 1860'. doi.org/10.14324/111....

Everyone at the Bentham Project is extremely saddened to learn of the recent death of Professor William Twining. We would like to extend our sincerest condolences to his family and friends. www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/profess...

Professor William Twining: an appreciation

It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of Professor William L. Twining (aged 91) peacefully at home on 9 October 2025.

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CfP: The 18th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will take place on 23–5 July 2026 at the Faculty of Law, the University of Macau—celebrating the publication of 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar' in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. shorturl.at/z8qO3

Anyone who frequented the Jeremy Bentham pub (d. 2016) on University Street may recognise Bentham House's newest art installation

🚨 To Detain or To Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840 🚨 📅 Wednesday 3 September @ 5:30pm 📣 @kiranmehta.bsky.social discusses the diverse penal landscape of 18th century London. An incredible book using many TLA documents! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-detain-...

To Detain or To Punish

Join us at The London Archives as Dr Kiran Mehta introduces her new book exploring the penal landscape of 18th century London.

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Scheduled for publication in 1 December, just in time to be rammed into Christmas stockings the world over, is the next volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham - 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar', ed. P. schofield uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...

Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar

This new volume of Bentham’s philosophical writings deals with his most fundamental ideas concerning logic, language, ethics and grammar. It includes four major essays written between 1814 and 1816, n...

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Transcribe Bentham will be inaccessible from 12 pm BST on Wednesday 16 July, until around the end of Thursday 17 July, while we migrate to a new server with much larger storage. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. 🧰 Lots and lots of new manuscript material will be uploaded soon thereafter! 🥳

Now published by the Navy Records Society 🚢📘: —Samuel Bentham, Inspector General of Naval Works, 1796–1807, Letters and Papers, edited by Roger Morriss boydellandbrewer.com/book/samuel-...

Samuel Bentham, Inspector General of Naval Works, 1796–1807, Letters and Papers

Enlightened reformer or dangerous maverick? This book examines the controversies created by Samuel Bentham, Utilitarian technologist, who fought to enhance the performance of the British naval dockyar...

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A total of 44,413 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 128 in progress, and 1 awaiting review 👏

And a reminder that our final seminar for 2024-25 is on 25 June at 5:30pm (at the IHR in London and online), with David Turner speaking on 'Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long 18th Century'. Like all @ihrlibrary.bsky.social seminars, it's free and open to the public.

Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century

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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar@long18thsem.bsky.social · last yr.

@joecozens.bsky.social, one of our seminar convenors, has just had an article published by @histparl.bsky.social discussing his research into John Lewis, a Black sailor who was arrested during the 1828 Weymouth by-election. historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...