University of London Press
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Parent company | University of London |
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Status | Active |
Founded | 1910; Reestablished 2019 |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Headquarters location | London, England |
Distribution | Chicago Distribution Center; NBN International |
Key people | Sara Charles, Lauren De-Ath, Jamie Bowman, Sandy Dutczak |
Publication types | Books and Journals |
Nonfiction topics | Humanities |
No. of employees | 4 |
Official website | www |
The University of London Press (also known as UoL Press) is a publishing house that is part of the University of London. Based in the School of Advanced Study at Senate House, it "seeks to facilitate collaborative, inclusive, open access interchange, within and beyond the academy."[1]
History[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Inside_Senate_House.jpg/220px-Inside_Senate_House.jpg)
The University of London Press is located in the art-deco style Senate House in London, whose entrance hall is shown above.
The University of London Press was originally established in 1910. From 1949 to 1979 it was known as Athlone Press.
In 2019, the University of London Press was relaunched as an open access publisher specialising in "distinctive scholarship at the forefront of the Humanities."[1]
Publishing[]
The University of London Press publishes books and journals by the following institutes of the School of Advanced Study:
- Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
- Institute of Classical Studies
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- Institute of English Studies
- Institute of Historical Research
- Institute of Latin American Studies
- Institute of Modern Languages Research
- Warburg Institute
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Categories:
- Book publishing companies based in London
- University presses of the United Kingdom