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All the information you need about the current exhibition is here. Osterley Park and House is easily reached via the Piccadilly Line. Strong summer recommend! 4/4

Journeys: Karun Thakar’s Textile Collection

‘Journeys’ at Osterley Park and House in west London showcases highlights from Karun Thakar’s renowned global textile collection.

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If the topics of the current exhibition and their wider historical context are of interest, you can download the East India Company at home book in full for free from @uclpress.bsky.social or as individual chapters (no subscription needed) from JSTOR. Very much enabled by @leverhulme.ac.uk . 3/4

The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857

The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a ...

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The 2013 National Trust/East India Company at Home exhibit was entitled 'The Trappings of Trade'. A hugely enjoyable, intellectually productive collaboration with National Trust staff and volunteers at Osterley House and with many members of the local Hounslow community. 2/4 @nationaltrust.org.uk

The Trappings of Trade: Osterley House reveals its gems from the East

Stunning Japanese-lacquered chests, Gujarati fabrics and fine Chinese porcelain are some of the distinctive objects displayed in a new exhibition co-curated by UCL researchers, National Trust staff an...

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Great to see Osterley House, National Trust engage again with the long legacy of the East India Company and its material cultures in Hounslow. Exciting to see another exhibition on this theme: Journeys: Wedding Shawls, Baghs and Phulkaris from the Karun Thakar Collection, open until 1 November. 1/4

Karun Thakar brings British Asians into Osterley House with National Trust exhibition

Exhibition of shawls invites visitors to rediscover estate's India links

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📚 Published today: Cold War Toys is now available open access. Discover how toys in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay reflected Cold War politics and culture. https://uclpress.co.uk/book/cold-war-toys/

@eicathomefinn.bsky.social This article may be of interest - it mentions the East India Company at Home over a number of paragraphs! www.easterneye.biz/osterley-hou...

Karun Thakar brings British Asians into Osterley House with National Trust exhibition

Exhibition of shawls invites visitors to rediscover estate's India links

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UCL Press joins the Open Book Collective https://obc.copim.pub/ucl-press-joins-the-open-book-collective/

UCL Press joins the Open Book Collective

One of the UK's largest and most established fully open access university presses becomes the latest member of OBC's University Presses package

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Eduardo A. Escobar, Kiersten Neumann et C. Jay Crisostomo (eds.) - Scribal Worlds Scholarship and Classification in Cuneiform Cultures À paraître en décembre aux UCL Press

Valerie A Kivelson reviews 'Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613–1825', by Denis J.B. Shaw academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @uclpress.bsky.social

Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613–1825, by Denis J.B. Shaw

Reconnoitring Russia is the culminating work of Denis J.B. Shaw’s distinguished career in the field of Russian geography. The book was clearly a labour of

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You'll find material on the Social Lives of Archives and Collections, from creative histories of COVID, to Franco-British collections, hidden voices and more uclpress.co.uk/book/paper-t... 🗃️

Paper Trails

Paper Trails brings together a diverse group of people both in its pages and its readership – researchers, practitioners and students – as well as featuring different historical collections (print, ob...

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We are ALMOST at the submission stage for the latest special update of our @uclpress.bsky.social publication Paper Trails. In this exciting new collection, we'll have a series of pieces looking at 'Difficult Collections'. Meanwhile, why not have a look through the wealth of #openaccess material 🗃️

Understanding China through Digital Anthropology dives into China's attitude towards its own relationship with technology and humanity, and utilises work undertaken by Chinese scholars that was previously not available in English. Download for free: uclpress.co.uk/book/underst... #OpenAccess

📚 Award-winning research, open to all We’re proud that many UCL Press titles have been recognised by leading organisations across many disciplines. Our open access publishing model makes world-class scholarship freely available to readers everywhere. What will you discover? 👉 uclpress.co.uk

We're delighted to welcome @uclpress.bsky.social to the Open Book Collective! One of the UK's largest fully OA university presses, publishing 400+ books, 60+ titles a year, free to read worldwide. Libraries can now support their work through our University Presses package. #DiamondOA #OpenAccess

UCL Press joins the Open Book Collective

One of the UK's largest and most established fully open access university presses becomes the latest member of OBC's University Presses package

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It is impossible to understand modern society without understanding classical tradition. Classics and Race puts the two alongside each other through readings of primary texts from the late medieval period to the mid-twentieth century. Download for free: uclpress.co.uk/book/classic...

Did you know that UCL Press was the UK's first fully Open Access university press? Our 450+ books and 3,000+ journal articles are available for anyone, anywhere, to download as free PDFs. What will you discover? 👉 uclpress.co.uk #UCLPress #OpenAccess

Out: 01.01.2027 Educating for Citizenship: framing knowledge for teaching and learning uclpress.co.uk/book/educati... @uclpress.bsky.social Editors @citizenlj.bsky.social, uk.linkedin.com/in/sera-shor..., @hughstarkey.bsky.social & profiles.ucl.ac.uk/72608-hans-s... Open Press & for purchase!

Educating for Citizenship

The question of what knowledge should feature in the curriculum and who determines those choices is highly political. Reflecting a commitment to citizenship education as a vehicle for social justice a...

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Humbled/honoured/delighted [insert LinkedInspeak as appropriate] to share this forthcoming @uclpress.bsky.social open access publication #postcolonialcitizens co-authored w/Fatima Rajina & Victoria Redclift (stunning art work by Waheeda Rahman-Mair) uclpress.co.uk/book/postcol...

Postcolonial Citizens

According to the International Organisation for Migration, the Bangladeshi diaspora is one of the world’s largest with around 2.4 million members, and the United Kingdom and the United States are two ...

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Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing interrogates the contested politics, practices, and pedagogies of academic writing development. The book also covers the challenges and opportunities offered by generative AI, machine translation and synthetic text. Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/critica...

"How to Prevent #Disasters" @uclpress.bsky.social "A Cup of Tea With, #Podcast" uclpress.co.uk/podcast/how-... Thanks for the chat and for the tea! #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement

How to Prevent Disasters: A Cup of Tea with Professor Ilan Kelman

Join Professors Judy Stephenson and Ilan Kelman as they discuss the dangers of complacency, and how 'natural disasters' are a misnomer

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#NewBook for your course reading list Postdigital Intimacies uses intersectional feminist, queer, anti-racist and postcolonial theories to explore the social, political and cultural implications of intimacy in a blurry public–private. Download now: uclpress.co.uk/book/postdig...

"Taken together, these chapters make a strong case that attending to time, and to who controls it, opens up dimensions of health inequality that spatial or distributional analyses alone cannot capture" Very happy to read this review of our volume "The Chronopolitics of Life" by Alaz Kilicaslan.

The Chronopolitics of Life: Rethinking Temporalities in Health and Biomedicine Beyond the Life CourseBy N. Bühler, N. Graber, V. Boydell and C. Greco (eds.), London: UCL Press, 2025. 224 pp. £50.00 (hbk); £30.00 (pbk); open access (PDF). ISBN: 978‐1‐80‐008‐972‐3

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Today at the @ebpomconf.bsky.social Conference, the UCL Press Journals Manager with (some of) the APOC editors. If you're attending the EBPOM conference this week, stop by the UCL Press stall to find out more about the journal. For everyone else, it's one click away: journals.uclpress.co.uk/apoc/

🎧 New episode of A Cup of Tea With… Join Profs Judy Stephenson and Margot Finn, FBA, as they discuss the importance of re-examining evidence, and how students' use of AI can limit their critical engagement. Watch now: uclpress.co.uk/podcast/reth... #ACupOfTeaWith #Podcast #VideoSeries #Interviews

Elizabeth DeWolfe was one of our first authors on our @uclpress.bsky.social publication 'Paper Trails'. Her open access article is a wonderful preview of this book, and it sounds like the podcast will also be well worth listening: ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article... 🗃️ #skystorians

Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast@civicspod.bsky.social · 4w ago

Coming to you this weekend! My conversation with the phenomenal Dr. Elizabeth DeWolfe. Join us as we explore the gendered limitations of the Gilded Age - and how a lawsuit gave one woman a chance to push back!

It's tricky to know how to teach about slavery in secondary History. Teaching Slavery provides the framework for establishing a classroom where teachers & students can confidently engage in dialogue about slavery, including the construction of race & racism Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Spend the morning with me setting up the @uclpress.bsky.social stand at the EBPOM conference in London.

Eduardo A. Escobar, Kiersten Neumann and C. Jay Crisostomo eds. Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and Classification in Cuneiform Cultures - @uclpress.bsky.social, June 2026 (print and open access) uclpress.co.uk/book/scribal...

Scribal Worlds

Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures delves into the history of the earliest writing cultures of the ancient Middle East, bridging disciplines that include ancient hist...

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