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We are delighted to announce that Dr Katie da Cunha Lewin and Dr Kiron Ward have been appointed to the Editorship of C21 Literature and that Sunayani Bhattacharya has been appointed to the Deputy Editor Team. Thanks to Dr Caroline Edwards and Professor Sîan Adiseshiah for their stalwart steering of…

The 1926 General Strike in Britain marked a powerful symbolic moment in the modern history of trade unionism. The sheer scale of the strike and its cross-industry solidarity reflected the central role that labor unions had come to play in shaping working-class identity and collective action. At the…

Winners Announced! Every two years, to coincide with the International Flann O’Brien Society conference, the Society awards official prizes to the best article/book chapter and best single author or edited monograph on the writing, life, and reception of Brian O'Nolan published over a 2-year period…

OLH Executive Director Dr Caroline Edwards was recently invited to attend an event organised by the N8 Research Partnership, the collective body for eight northern research intensive universities. Held at the University of York on 12 June 2025, this event celebrated the launch of a landmark stateme…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: the Università della Svizzera italiana. Established in 1996, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) is one of the 12 certified public universities in Switzerland and a member of swissuniversities. With four campuse…

In this Editorial for the March 2025 issue [click here browse the issue online; click here to view and download a PDF of the entire issue; and to order a printed copy for $9.99 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following market places: US, UK, DE, FR, ES,…

The editors and governing board of Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) are delighted to announce the third Students’ Work-In-Progress Competition.  The Students’ Work-In-Progress Competition offers an opportunity for students to work with RHETM’s experienced editors an…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: the Université catholique de Louvain. UCLouvain is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. Originally established in 1425, it is also one of the oldest Catholic universities in Europe. With campuses spread acro…

A blog post by Naomi Morris, CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern for OLH What first drew me to the CHASE placement at OLH was their ethos around open access publishing. I have always been interested in working behind-the-scenes of editorial and publishing and had looked at other interns…

Orbit is proud to announce the publication of a special issue devoted to Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by James Donahue. The critical introduction attempts a quick history by means of a thought experiment, highlighting the social and political work engaged by Indigenous speculative fiction…

We are pleased to share that CDRXIV, a new preprint server from CarbonPlan, has officially launched. CDRXIV is powered behind the scenes by Janeway, with the Open Library of Humanities providing technical infrastructure and development support. This project reflects Janeway’s flexibility as an open…

We’re delighted to announce that our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, will be participating in the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025, organised in collaboration with LSE, the Francis Crick Institute and the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship. The festival will take pla…