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A drawing depicts a bustling urban park with people walking and trees scattered around. Tall buildings surround the park area. The lower part of the image features a caption: "An exploration of luck in modernity, modern imagination, and modern stories."

Friday the 13th feels like the perfect day to explore how we talk about luck.

Modern Luck examines modern stories of fortune and misfortune across literature, film and more.

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My work is part of this amazing open access collective volume by UCL Press edited by Natasha Tanna, Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez and Hakan Sandal-Wilson.
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Happy 200th birthday, @ucl.ac.uk! 🎉

To mark the bicentenary, the Survey of London team at the Bartlett School of Architecture has published the first comprehensive account of UCL's architectural history.

Available now in-store and as a free download via UCL Press: https://bit.ly/4bMEzy7
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UCL at 200 A commemorative volume marking UCL’s 200th anniversary, exploring two centuries of openness, discovery and global impact. Featuring insights from over 100 contributors, it reflects on UCL’s progressiv...

🎉 UCL turns 200 this week! 🎉
UCL Press has published UCL at 200: Two Centuries of Insight and Impact, featuring a section on UCL Grand Challenges with contributions from our Provosts and Directors.
📘 Read more: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/ucl-at-200/

A drawing depicts a bustling urban park with people walking and trees scattered around. Tall buildings surround the park area. The lower part of the image features a caption: "An exploration of luck in modernity, modern imagination, and modern stories."

Friday the 13th feels like the perfect day to explore how we talk about luck.

Modern Luck examines modern stories of fortune and misfortune across literature, film and more.

Read and download free: uclpress.co.uk/book/modern-...

More than just picnic pests, wasps are vital to our ecosystems, but are deeply misunderstood.

Join Profs Philip Schofield & Seirian Sumner as they dissect the potential of wasps in cancer research.

Listen now: uclpress.co.uk/podcast/why-...
#ClimateJustice

Student London Students have formed a significant part of London’s population since the foundation of its first university in 1826, and Student London centres their experiences in the city’s history. To tell the 200...

Two new #OpenAccess histories from @uclpress.bsky.social:

Student London
A new history of higher education in the capital

uclpress.co.uk/book/student...

Survey of London:
University College London, The Bloomsbury Campus

uclpress.co.uk/book/univers...

#History #LondonHistory

Season 3, Episode 6 - Why We Should Love Wasps, featuring Professor Seirian Sumner More than just picnic pests, wasps are vital to our ecosystems, but are deeply misunderstood. Joining Professor Philip Schofield in this episode is Professor Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural E

I love doing podcasts!
Here’s my latest one – on wasps of course - with UCL’s Professor Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project on his #Climate Extinction Politics podcast series, with @uclpress.bsky.social

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#WaspLove #Biodiversity
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📚 As UCL marks 200 years, Student London: A New History of Higher Education in the Capital is out now! Discover student life across the city from 1826 to today, drawing on rich archives and personal histories. Free to read: bit.ly/3NcnXpi
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Or the rush of an #OpenAccess download ;)

It is indeed!

The print version is BEAUTIFUL, isn't it?

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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

📚 Two centuries of student life reveal a dynamic, changing London.

To mark UCL’s 200th anniversary, Student London: A New History of Higher Education in the Capital is out today- free to read and download: bit.ly/3NcnXpi
#StudentLondon #LondonHistory #HigherEducation #OpenAccess

As @ucl.ac.uk begins to celebrate 200 years since it was founded, we revisit our #OpenAccess title The World of UCL. Learn how UCL widened access to education, welcomed women and students of all religions, and grew into a global leader. Read and download free: lnkd.in/eTn6h5UR

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🇯🇵 As UCL turns 200, discover its remarkable role in the making of modern Japan. Alexander Williamson and his wife supported some of the first Japanese students in Britain, who went on to shape the Meiji era. Read the open access book: bit.ly/4tqMzv0

I’m very excited to share that our edited volume Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice is now out! 🧿

It is available open access and can be downloaded at: uclpress.co.uk/book/creativ...

Sahidic Coptic Begin your journey in Sahidic Coptic. This open access textbook offers essential grammar and readings for understanding Coptic texts.

Just started Bill Manley’s Sahidic Coptic textbook. Let’s see how far I get
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As @ucl.ac.uk begins to celebrate 200 years since it was founded, we revisit our #OpenAccess title The World of UCL. Learn how UCL widened access to education, welcomed women and students of all religions, and grew into a global leader. Read and download free: lnkd.in/eTn6h5UR

Thanks to Fiona Lane for this generous review of “Rent Strikes: A History of Tenant Actions across the World” (co-edited with @hannesrolf.bsky.social and edited by @uclpress.bsky.social).

The book can be downloaded open access here: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st... (more than 2.1k downloads already🤯)

Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice is an edited volume grounded in a commitment to politically engaged research that moves beyond traditional scholarly forms. It examines knowledge tha...

New today, and #OpenAccess: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice, edited by Natasha Tanna, Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez and Hakan Sandal-Wilson. Read and download free: uclpress.co.uk/book/creativ...

Announcing the dates for this year's London Open Science & Scholarship Festival! 🎉

Monday 20 - Friday 24 April 2026 🗓️

Find the full list of 13 partners and more details on the latest Open@UCL blog post buff.ly/eSmjBWJ

And make sure to keep following for updates!

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A quick reminder that Teaching Slavery is #OpenAccess! Read and download it free from: uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Link to a new open-access introductory textbook for Coptic language study below. 👇 @uclpress.bsky.social also recently produced an open-access textbook on Judeo-Arabic for anyone who wants to try their hand at other historic regional languages: uclpress.co.uk/book/baghdad... 👇 #MedievalSky

“Unnamed, uncaptioned: archaeological photography and colonialism at Jericho, as seen in the Kenyon Archive” by Elianna Ausdahl, open access in Archaeology International from @uclpress.bsky.social :

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UCL Press to publish the Survey of London series Discover the Survey of London’s new open-access chapter with UCL Press. The first volume, University College London: The Bloomsbury Campus, launches Spring 2026, celebrating UCL’s architectural herita...

The Survey of London is about to enter a new chapter with UCL Press.

UCL: The Bloomsbury Campus, a richly illustrated deep dive into UCL’s built heritage will publish on February 11th, just in time for @ucl.ac.uk's 200th anniversary!
Find out more: bit.ly/48i8haI
#OpenAccess #Architecture #UCL200

Understanding China through Digital Anthropology Understanding China through Digital Anthropology questions our understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between ...

New publication:
Understanding China Through Digital Anthropology,
Edited with Wang Xinyuan
A free download from UCL Press.
In the conclusion, we explain the profound differences in attitudes to the digital between China and the West.
uclpress.co.uk/book/underst...