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UCL MA in Publishing and UCL Centre for Publishing | Department of Information Studies, Faculty of Arts & Humanities | Publishing and book cultures research and education | Bloomsbury

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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Join the Bookselling Research Network on Friday, March 13th for what will be a fascinating talk by Sarah Harkness: Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/harkne... #bookhistory #publishing
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Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse - Bookselling Research Network
Sarah Harkness speaks on her recent book, "Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse"
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Here's a short film outlining the experience of our inaugural residency with @monitorbooks.bsky.social mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/dffH5...
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Monitor Books, the 2025 UCL Small Press in Residence
An interview with Rory Cook from Monitor Press about their experience as UCL's first Small Press in Residence.
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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The call for applications for the UCL Small Press in Residence 2026 is now open. The residency is hosted by @uclspeccoll.bsky.social in collaboration with the @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social and @uclpublishing.bsky.social Please share: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
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Call for Small Press in Residence 2026 | UCL UCL Special Collections
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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
T-minus 24 hours to @tylershores.bsky.social ‘s talk for @uclpublishing.bsky.social on The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of AI - join us at 1pm (London time) Weds 4th Feb (registration is free via www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...) #reading #publishing #bookhistory
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Online seminar - The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of AI
Tyler Shores (Director of ThinkLab, University of Cambridge) - 1pm Wednesday 4th February 2026
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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
What may be gained - or lost - when AI becomes embedded in the act of reading itself? Join us 1pm Weds 4th Feb for a free online talk from @tylershores.bsky.social on online reading, including how AI can function as a thinking partner across different kinds of texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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Online seminar - The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of AI
Tyler Shores (Director of ThinkLab, University of Cambridge) - 1pm Wednesday 4th February 2026
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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Still time to register for today’s @uclpublishing.bsky.social free online event, Understanding the Digital Public Library Ecosystem, with guest speakers @kiberens.bsky.social and Prof Rachel Noorda - sign up via www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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Understanding the Digital Public Library Ecosystem
Players, processes, and how publishers can work with libraries to reach readers
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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Looking forward to tonight's www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... event: 100+ booked but some tickets still available. See you on Zoom at 6pm UK time for a wide-ranging discussion of the impact of reading on our health and wellbeing
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Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper, or a reading community meets in a virtual space? How, and why, do reading practices change, and what does this mean for readers wh...
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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
So looking forward to this event, and hearing from Dr Nenna Orie Chuku, Dr Katharine Smales, and Prof Sam Duncan - our thanks as always to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for generous support of this research #reading #wellbeing @sharpweb.org @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper? Join the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and the UCL Centre for Publishing for a free online event 11th November 6pm (UK time): Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
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Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper, or a reading community meets in a virtual space? How, and why, do reading practices change, and what does this mean for readers wh...
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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Job alert: closing date today, 8th September!
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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Come work with us! Three jobs with UCL Department of Information Studies: first up, Lecturer (Teaching): Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society - application deadline 8th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Second up: Lecturer Humanities Data Science - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Third up: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods – 0.5 FTE Grade 7 - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Interdisciplinary conference from a brilliant team: exploring texts and the human experience #publishingstudies #digitalhumanities #DH
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Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Postgraduate student in book history or literary studies? Apply for a bursary to the Digital Scholarship Winter School. Learn concepts and methods for research on new sources and media technologies. Generously sponsored by @sharpnews.bsky.social digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 2/end
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Text Affects at The Open University
Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...
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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Lynette Owen and Diane Spivey, two of our favourite regular UCL MA Publishing guests, are running a 2025 edition of their renowned Selling Rights short course at IES (this year with the brilliant Juliet Pickering as well) #publishing
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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
There's still time to apply for an IES Fellowship! We will consider all topics within the field of English Studies, the history of the book, manuscript studies & palaeography, bibliography, textual scholarship & scholarly editing. Deadline: 10 April More info here: ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
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Fellowship Applications and Renewals
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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Can books be bad for you? Bad books vs bad readers - University of London Press author Karen Attar writing for @theconversation.com about her recent #OpenAccess book, Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction! Available to read free online. @ies-sas.bsky.social theconversation.com/can-books-be...
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Can books be bad for you? Only if you’re a ‘bad reader’ like Don Quixote
There are many books where characters take fiction too seriously and are driven mad.
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UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
As if the MA Publishing students didn't have enough to talk about in their Ethics in Publishing module next week...
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Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Just a few days before submissions close for this exciting collection (31 March)
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junsworth.bsky.social @junsworth.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This new issue of @jepub.bsky.social is out, and its first article is from @literaturegeek.bsky.social: 'Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just and Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure'. I recommend @jepub.bsky.social as a place to organize Just and Joyful collaboration in the future.
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Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just and Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure
This article explores my process for designing just and joyful scholarly infrastructure by performing a representative speculative experiment: drafting a digital humanities scholarship review clinic s...
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Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Fantastic project, plus a chance to work with the amazing @kajamarczewska.bsky.social @uclspeccoll.bsky.social @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social Apply!
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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
📣 New on the blog! 📣 Medieval Pigments in the Twenty-First Century Reflecting on the fantastic workshop held at Senate House last month, in collaboration with @senatehouselib.bsky.social @saracharles.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social 🔗👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/blog/medieva...
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Medieval Pigments in the Twenty-First Century
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