Transcribe Bentham

The Journal of Bentham Studies journal cover is shown on the right side of this image. On the left side the blog title is written in black text. It reads, 'UCL200, Jeremy Bentham and the journal of Bentham Studies: A 200 year legacy. A Journal of Bentham studies blog'. The UCL Press logo appears at the bottom of the image and the open access logo is displayed between the journal cover and text.

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/

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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

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/

A screengrab of the new listing for the fourteenth volume of Jeremy Bentham's Correspondence on the UCL Press website.

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. 📃✍️

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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 📜🖋️

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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

The cover of a book reading 'The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar', edited by Philip Schofield' and with the UCL Press logo. The writing is in gold on a blue background

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-...

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, ...

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

Cover image of Jeremy Bentham's Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar.

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'.

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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.

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.

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Cover image of 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar' in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, being published on 1 December 2025.

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.

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A wooden box with a glass front sat on a table. The box contains a plastic head supposed to look like Jeremy Bentham, and is wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and a wide brimmed straw hat

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

🚨 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!

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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

uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...

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. 🎉📝

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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