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CFP for a Special Collection at OLHJ (Open Library of the Humanities Journal) Language Diversity in Game Studies Para ver la versión en español de la convocatoria para artículos por favor ver abajo. Game scholars do not only examine games; they also examine game studies. For instance, feminist game…

CFP for a Special Collection at OLHJ (Open Library of the Humanities Journal) Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies Edited by Julia Ditter and Irmtraud Huber Infrastructures have recently drawn critical interest from anthropology, geography, science and technology studies, engi…

In November, the OLH team was delighted to host our 2024 Editors Workshop, ‘Community and Inclusion in Scholarly Publishing’. This event brought together editors from many of our OLH journals to discuss important and evolving topics in open access scholarly publishing, ranging from the need for gre…

We are very pleased to say that an article published in the Open Library of Humanities journal has been recently featured in The Times. The article in question, “Who Put the ‘a’ in ‘Thomas a Becket’? The History of a Name from the Angevins to the Victorians” by John Jenkins, examines the history of…

Choosing OLHJ as the Publisher for your Special Collection An Open Insights blog post by Katherine Parker-HayKatherine Parker-Hay is an Editorial Officer for the Open Library of Humanities where she oversees editorial processes and production. She has a PhD from the University of Sussex and ha…

Live Discussion / Online eventThe Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period PovertyWant to know more about menstrual rights & history in Scotland? Join the editors and contributors of the OLH journal Special Collection “The Politics and History of…

We are delighted to announce that Dr Amy Butt has won the 2022 SFRA Innovative Research Award for her article published in the Open Library of Humanities journal. Amy’s article ‘The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum’ was published in 2021 and explores the role and possibilities of sci…

The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty An Open Insights Interview with Bettina Bildhauer, Camilla Røstvik and Sharra VostralFeatured image: Matriline by Bibo Keeley, digital image, 2016Bettina Bildhauer (BB) is Professor of German …

The Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ) is currently seeking new Special Collections to join our wide array of published research in the Humanities.  OLHJ has published quality, peer-reviewed research across 40 Special Collections since 2016, with subjects ranging from ‘The Working-…

Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First CenturyAn Open Insights interview with Adrian Curtin and Adam Whittaker Dr Adam Whittaker is Head of Pedagogy and a Lecturer in Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is an internationally rec…

Open Library of Humanities Journal Special Collection: Call for ProposalsThe Working-Class Avant-Garde The idea of a working-class avant-garde may seem a contradiction to some. The avant-garde, so often an elite realm of the arts, has proved to favour those with the requisite social, cultural …

We are delighted to announce that Dr Janet Smith has been awarded the 2021 Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize for her article published in the OLH journal.The article "Crossing the Border of Citizenship: Helen Taylor, the Independent Radical Democrat Candidate for Camberwell North, 1885" explores the…