Public health interventions include any effort or policy that attempts to improve the health among individuals or an entire population. They can be run by governmental health departments or non-govern...

Alex Bloom (1895–1955) was a remarkable school leader whose reputation in his lifetime extended far beyond the UK. Against the odds, in the bomb-damaged remains of London’s East End immediately after ...

Nuclear cultural heritage encompasses the locations, environments, objects, materials, practices, knowledge and memories associated with the use of nuclear technology. This includes power generation, ...

The labour of hundreds of millions of internal migrant workers plays a crucial role for China and Vietnam’s national development and the expansion of global production chains in these market socialist...

The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...

The King’s table was full of flavours from the British empire and beyond.

This volume reopens and revitalises debates on the materialities of air and atmospheres, including practices of breathing, in a multitude of postcolonial and Southern hemispheric contexts. It probes t...

Dr Paul Ayris (1957-2025) was founder and CEO of UCL Press and a champion of the ‘open science’ movement, breaking down barriers to make research, scholarship and learning freely accessible to all.

Dr Paul Ayris (1957-2025) was founder and CEO of UCL Press and a champion of the ‘open science’ movement, breaking down barriers to make research, scholarship and learning freely accessible to all.