Massive Attack: Boots on the Ground (ft Tom Waits) review – first single in a decade is a dark hymn for our times Unsettling breathing, arrhythmic clatter, gloomy piano and military snares underpin a Beefheartian portrayal of a boorish warmonger on the band’s ominous return

Massive Attack: Boots on the Ground (ft Tom Waits) review – first single in a decade is a dark hymn for our times

Radical Histories - Manchester University Press The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.

Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

A screenshot of the opening slide for Prof. Caroline Edwards' inaugural lecture featuring a black and white image of Bowerman's Nose, Dartmoor and the text "where is hope taking us? the utopian art of desecration amidst capitalist ruins."

I've been writing my inaugural lecture this week - lots of weirdness about woods, rocks, mycelium, intimate cross-species relations & some quite personal bits about my childhood. Goodness! Still time to grab a ticket for Tues 14 April (in-person or live-streaming): www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

New OLH poster drop and accompanying piece by Dr Paula Clemente Vega: “If scholarly publishing is a site of struggle, the question is no longer whether change is needed, but whether we are prepared to redistribute power and resources to make knowledge truly free.”

A vintage-style “Wanted” poster featuring Robin Hood–themed characters posing as a diverse band of archers and scholars. The text reads: “Join the fight to make knowledge free. Divest from commercial academic publishing and join the Open Library of Humanities.

I wrote the blog post behind our new Robin Hood @openlibhums.org poster! In it, I reflect on why divesting scholarly publishing from commercial interests and redirecting library budgets into #diamondOA is so urgent.

Read it (and grab the poster!) here: www.openlibhums.org/news/932/

#UKSG2026

Brilliant new OLH post: “Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers“ by anon - a sharp take on why we need “scholarly infrastructure that is interoperable, collectively governed, and not permanently rented back to the academy“.

‘I’ve learned first-hand how evil is tolerated’: Colm Tóibín on living in the US under Trump The Brooklyn author on immigration and the inspiration behind his latest collection of stories

‘I’ve learned first-hand how evil is tolerated’: Colm Tóibín on living in the US under Trump

Friends! Please join me in London or online for my inaugural lecture in April. There will be wine and nibbles! You can heckle me from the back row! I've already promised some raunchy Zed from Zardoz references - other indecent shout-out requests may be considered. Booking via QR code.

An image reading the statement "The Future is Diamond" alongside the logo of the Open Journals Collective.

We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

Feeling quite emotional today - it's the OFFICIAL LAUNCH of @ojcollective.bsky.social! It's taken 14 months of hard work to get here & I'm incredibly proud of our brilliant team. This is just the beginning - more announcements coming soon from the collective! drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

Journal cover of Theory and Social Inquiry featuring an industrial workers illustration.

New ISSUE out! Theory and Social Inquiry, Volume 1, Issue 2 (2025) is now available: www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1815/i...

Our team - Open Library of Humanities We are based at Birkbeck, University of London, but make up a geographically distributed network of expert bookworms, specialist software developers, and typography enthusiasts.

🎄 Day 12 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas
On the twelfth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us twelve sleepy humans, who are back at work doing it all again.
Meet our team:

Energy Humanities News | The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multispecies Encounters in Extraction In this Author’s Note, Josephine Taylor outlines the intellectual and ethical foundations of her recent book, The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy, tracing how animal life has been rendered absent within...

I wrote an author's note on my book for the energy humanities website, do check it out: www.energyhumanities.ca/news/the-non...

Philosophical Logic has joined the OLH! Read their open letter on mass editorial resignation and the push to make academic research “as accessible as possible to both the academic community and society at large”.

We’re hiring! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

‘Out of touch’ peers criticised for voting against workers’ rights Trade union leaders and senior Labour figures say the Lords looks ‘undemocratic and firmly against the interest of working people’

Just disgusting to see these unelected, extremely wealthy, pompous relics voting against working class people.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Although I'm horrified to see a massive landscape picture of my head here, this is a really important piece about the maturation of scholar-led, non-profit publishing. As I write, chaos is coming but there are enormous opportunities to quit the big 5

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Community ownership: relation, reciprocity and responsibility YouTube video by Open Access Australasia

If you'd like to catch up with the @oaaustralasia.bsky.social #OpenAccessWeek event on Community Ownership the recording is now available: youtu.be/bdNdkWG-uCg?... I was honoured to speak alongside Dr. Kiri West (Māori Data Sovereignty Network) &
Dr. Alice McSherry (Waiheke Marine Project).

Comic-style poster warning that commercial publishers are “eating your journal’s brains,” promoting the Open Library of Humanities.

It’s spooky season… 🧟‍♂️
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween

You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)

The Energy Humanities editorial team is thrilled to be part of what OLH is doing!

We’ve just released our 2024–2025 Annual Report!
Lots of exciting updates and highlights inside — take a look 👇

“Amidst increasing corporate pressure on editors to compromise academic integrity in favour of increasing profit margins, there are signs that a tipping point has been reached in recent years”. Check out Rose Harris-Birtill’s piece on editorial freedom, radical hope, and the mission of the OLH

This week is pretty special for us at @openlibhums.org. It's #OAWeek & also 10 years since we launched as a publisher! As my brilliant colleague Dr Rose Harris-Birtill writes in her Editorial, academics must speak up with "radical hope and courage": olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2... #OAWeek25

Myself and my colleague John Miller are collaborating on a book project Crude Tunes: Histories and Cultures of Petroleum in Popular Music. Check out our cfps and consider sending us an abstract: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...

Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging This paper explores how implicit, discriminatory messages bypass sanctions in the United Kingdom and beyond, despite their potential for significant societal harm. Drawing on linguistic and humour res...

“Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging” by Jennifer Young: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection Humour as a Human Right

Lovely interview with our new OLH colleague Dr Maddie Sinclair who reflects on the importance of research being publicly available. "As a researcher, I became aware very early on of the structural inequalities in publishing systems, and I didn’t want to perpetuate them." #OpenAccess #AcaSky

📢 CfP: A hybrid conference at Warwick themed on Solidarity. We seek to ask what it means to stand in solidarity, how is it built and what are the challenges involved, and analyses/perspectives on historical and contemporary solidarity campaigns in support of emancipatory struggles.

Loved 'Short Forms in the Global Literary Marketplace' at QMUL today, organised by Dr Rehana Ahmed and Dr Shital Pravinchandra. Ft. academics, publishers and writers working in the field, including Mr Paul McVeigh! Followed by a public event ft. Gurnaik Johal, in partnership with Wasafiri 😊