Transcribe Bentham

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...

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

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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! 🥳

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...

Now published by the Navy Records Society 🚢📘:

—Samuel Bentham, Inspector General of Naval Works, 1796–1807, Letters and Papers, edited by Roger Morriss

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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.

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What a finish! Congrats to @jamesamilton.bsky.social, our UCL Laws Fantasy League champion earlier this month, edging out @divijualsuspect in a final-day thriller! 🏆

Both are our UCL Laws' candidates: PhD skills meet #FPL glory! ⚽️
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Prices for standard two-day tickets are £64.76 plus a small Eventbrite fee, or £43.37 plus the Eventbrite fee for student/unwaged attendees, while standard one-day tickets are £32.68 plus a small Eventbrite fee or £21.98 plus the Eventbrite fee respectively (incl. tea/coffee, pastries, and lunch) 💷📚

For tickets for our forthcoming conference, ‘Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and “A Picture of the Treasury”’ 📝 🖼️, which is taking place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, UCL, on 23–4 July, please visit our Eventbrite page: shorturl.at/SeT78

A total of 44,401 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 112 in progress, and 1 awaiting review 👏

In-Person | Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and ‘A Picture of the Treasury’ The Conference is generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

See § 22. 'Principles of Waste and Peculation', A Picture of the Treasury, UC cxx. 457 (20 March 1802).

Registration still remaining open for our 'Picture' and Panopticon conference at UCL Laws in July: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

'To be competent to the sacred trust of acting for the public, a man ought to have not merely a tongue to talk about the public—he ought to have a head to think for it and a heart to feel for it: a conception wide enough to take in every branch of the public interest [and] the minutest twig of it.'

A total of 44,386 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 120 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏

Bentham on Laws in principem, Judicial Review, and the Public Opinion Tribunal: A Critique of Hart’s and Postema’s Criticisms - Law and Philosophy Hart thinks that Bentham believes that judicial review achieves legally limited sovereignty, but he argues that Bentham fails to account for it. He criticises that Bentham’s discussion of laws in prin...

Now available: Xiaobo Zhai's article, 'Bentham on Laws in principem, Judicial Review, and the Public Opinion Tribunal: A Critique of Hart’s and Postema’s Criticisms', in Law and Philosophy. 🎉📝

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For the other part of his study, please visit doi.org/10.1017/S095....

Registration is now open for our conference ‘Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and “A Picture of the Treasury”’, which is taking place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London, on 23–4 July

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A total of 44,202 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 303 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏

Jeremy Bentham and the Neoclassical and Neoliberal Traditions: Architect or Adversary? - Tom McDowell, 2025 This article reclaims Jeremy Bentham from the trend of characterizing him as an intellectual inspiration for neoclassicism and neoliberalism. It demonstrates th...

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Tom McDowell, 'Jeremy Bentham and the Neoclassical and Neoliberal Traditions: Architect or Adversary?'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My latest in @TheoryCulture argues that although Bentham is often seen as a forerunner of the neoliberal tradition, this overlooks how his mature theory of ‘psychological dynamics’ renders him its antithesis.
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Multidisciplinary Mill(s)

Places are still available for Multidisciplinary Mill(s), a conference on Tuesday May 20, dedicated to the ideas and influence of all the Mills: John Stuart Mill, James Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill and Helen Taylor.

Register below ⬇️

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A total of 44,131 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 364 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏

Doing transcription work on this project remains one of the most fun information history things I've ever done. I'm so excited to hear how close it is to completion!

Currently sitting in the Bentham Committee, hearing about Transcribe Bentham's ongoing progress. In total, 90.3% of the material on the Transcription Desk has now been transcribed! TB keeps trucking on... entering final stages to get the whole collection transcribed, maybe finished in 18 months...?

Now available in Utilitas: 📝👇

Xiaobo Zhai, 'Bentham’s Laws in Principem and his Command Theory: a Critique of Hart’s Criticisms'.

shorturl.at/YDrX1 (doi:10.1017/S0953820825000081)

Registration is now open for our conference ‘Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and “A Picture of the Treasury”’, which will take place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, UCL, on 23–4 July: shorturl.at/1qGBy

An updated version of 'Picture' can be downloaded here: shorturl.at/8Y5rD.

Fill | The Impeachment of Warren Hastings Conference 3-4 July 2025 Registration Form

On 3 and 4 July, the History of Parliament alongside The CRJ Research Group, University of Worcester are hosting a conference on the impeachment of Warren Hastings.

It is free to attend and you can register your place below:

The LLM team celebrating in front of a goal on a pitch at Coram's Fields after winning the Faculty of Laws football tournament.

Sunny days call for Faculty football tournaments! 🌞 ⚽ Congratulations to the LLM team who reigned victorious over the LLB and staff squads. Shout out to fan favourite Prof Alex Mills and all the organisers and players!

A total of 44,091 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 361 in progress, and 10 awaiting review 👏

UCL Laws welcomes Malaysian government for experts’ roundtable on institutional reforms UCL Laws facilitated a high-level exchange among legal experts from UK and Malaysia, who shared knowledge and expertise directly informing Malaysia’s potential institutional reforms.

It was a great privilege to have facilitated a high-level exchange among legal experts from UK and Malaysia, who shared knowledge and expertise directly informing Malaysia’s potential institutional reform. Read more:

Call for a Small Press in Residence at UCL Special Collections In 2025, we are celebrating 60 years of small press collecting. We are looking for a small press to take up a temporary residency at UCL to help us celebrate and contribute to our events programme.

Calling all small presses! We are looking for our first ever Small Press in Residence @ucl.ac.uk.

£5,000 to spend flexibly, access to outstanding collections, great facilities, and opportunities to collaborate with brilliant staff and students.

Apply by 31 March: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/coll...

Call for Papers 📝: Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and ‘A Picture of the Treasury’.

Taking place at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London on 23–4 July 2025.

For the CfP, visit shorturl.at/dIXem, where you will also find a link to the pre-publication text.

Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery - The National Archives The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. PASSA...

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars.

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