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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"

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

Here's a short film outlining the experience of our inaugural residency with @monitorbooks.bsky.social mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/dffH5...

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...

Online seminar - The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of AI Tyler Shores (Director of ThinkLab, University of Cambridge) - 1pm Wednesday 4th February 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

Online seminar - The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of AI Tyler Shores (Director of ThinkLab, University of Cambridge) - 1pm Wednesday 4th February 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...

Understanding the Digital Public Library Ecosystem Players, processes, and how publishers can work with libraries to reach readers

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Job alert: closing date today, 8th September!

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).

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/...

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).

Second up: Lecturer Humanities Data Science - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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).

Third up: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods – 0.5 FTE Grade 7 - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Interdisciplinary conference from a brilliant team: exploring texts and the human experience #publishingstudies #digitalhumanities #DH

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...

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

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

Fellowship Applications and Renewals

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/...

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.

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...

As if the MA Publishing students didn't have enough to talk about in their Ethics in Publishing module next week...

Just a few days before submissions close for this exciting collection (31 March)

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.

Fantastic project, plus a chance to work with the amazing @kajamarczewska.bsky.social @uclspeccoll.bsky.social @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social Apply!

Medieval Pigments in the Twenty-First Century

📣 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

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ies.sas.ac.uk/blog/medieva...