Author Posts Choose Your Own Adventure My new book Make/Unmake: Play at the Centre of Culture Change examines what UNICEF calls the three greatest challenges currently facing children globally, now and into the future: migration, the climate crisis, and changing forms of work.
Author Posts The EU Energy Transition: Doing More with More In a context marked by economic and geopolitical tensions, the European Union is called upon to make energy a pillar of its strategic autonomy. Accelerating on the adoption of renewables is essential.
History The “Charm” of Objectivity Anita Frison’s open access book Africa in Russian Imperial Culture: Race, Empire, and Representation (1850–1917) unmasks how pre-Soviet Russia produced exotifying portrayals of Sub-Saharan Africa while distinguishing itself as a benevolent actor in contrast to its colonial counterparts in the West.
OBP Newsletter Open Book Publishers - Annual Report 2025 We write with a big announcement about our new individual membership programme, news of recent publications, and a review of some of the highlights of our year.
community Some Reflections on How 'Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné' Was Received by the Choné Tibetan Community The act of returning the book was understood not simply as a gesture of completion but as a form of accountability. The book is a form of recognition that the stories, knowledge, and insights generated through research must circulate back to community members who made them possible.
20th Century Life writing, family stories and ‘history from below’ We still have so few accounts of ordinary peoples’ lives told in their own voices and on their own terms. Might Norah’s diaries allow a different kind of access to a working-class girl’s interior life?
OBP Newsletter December 2025 Newsletter We hope this newsletter finds you well as the festive month of December begins. We write with a big announcement about our new individual membership programme, news of recent publications, and a review of some of the highlights of our year.
Our books Small Apocalypses By Tricia de Souza On December 21, 2012, the world as we know it was meant to change forever. According to the Mayan long-count calendar, the day ushered a new period of history
Our books A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib Particularly because the massive Hartlib archive has been available in digitised form since 2013, it is amazing that Hartlib himself has not been the subject of a modern English language monograph. Acceleration in the pace of Hartlib studies is essentially a characteristic of the last few years
Польові зйомки: Оцифрування документальної спадщини у складних умовах Remote Capture is not just a technical handbook. It is a book about preserving memory and history amid loss. It walks the reader through every stage of the work—from planning the project and choosing equipment to working on the ground, creating secure copies, cataloguing, and completing a project.
