UCL Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science
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Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science (LCCOS) provides outstanding staff and services to research, education and enterprise at @ucl.ac.uk
Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lccos/library-culture-collections-and-open-science-lccos
Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lccos/library-culture-collections-and-open-science-lccos
Opening today at the @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social, a new group art show places contemporary Sudanese voices alongside the museum’s ancient artefacts. Find out more about The Land Carries: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Opening today at the @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social, a new group art show places contemporary Sudanese voices alongside the museum’s ancient artefacts. Find out more about The Land Carries: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
Discover stories of the supernatural penned by the @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social’s founder Amelia B. Edwards. Award-winning actor Jonathan Goodwin returns on 21 November with 'Tales for a Winter’s Night'.
Tales for a Winter’s Night
Step into the Petrie Museum after hours for an evening of supernatural tales.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Discover stories of the supernatural penned by the @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social’s founder Amelia B. Edwards. Award-winning actor Jonathan Goodwin returns on 21 November with 'Tales for a Winter’s Night'.
Listen in to a conversation addressing Flinders Petrie's complex legacy. UCL President and Provost Michael Spence meets Head of Petrie Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology Collections, Catriona Wilson, and Curator Dr Anna Garnett in the Faces of UCL podcast. faces-of-ucl.transistor.fm/episodes/epi...
November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Listen in to a conversation addressing Flinders Petrie's complex legacy. UCL President and Provost Michael Spence meets Head of Petrie Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology Collections, Catriona Wilson, and Curator Dr Anna Garnett in the Faces of UCL podcast. faces-of-ucl.transistor.fm/episodes/epi...
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🎉 The 1st episode of Beautiful Minds, the new season of UCL Press Play, is out now!
Join Professor Philip Schofield and Dr Sarah White as they take a forensic look at the brain, and challenge outdated medical models and stereotypes of autism
Listen now: t.co/vQPLohtyDk
Join Professor Philip Schofield and Dr Sarah White as they take a forensic look at the brain, and challenge outdated medical models and stereotypes of autism
Listen now: t.co/vQPLohtyDk
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🎉 The 1st episode of Beautiful Minds, the new season of UCL Press Play, is out now!
Join Professor Philip Schofield and Dr Sarah White as they take a forensic look at the brain, and challenge outdated medical models and stereotypes of autism
Listen now: t.co/vQPLohtyDk
Join Professor Philip Schofield and Dr Sarah White as they take a forensic look at the brain, and challenge outdated medical models and stereotypes of autism
Listen now: t.co/vQPLohtyDk
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Thanks to Geraldine Hunwick, Rosaleen Williams, Holly Smith, Sarah Aitchison & Erika Delbecque @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @ucllccos.bsky.social for speaking to #RLUKICIL on how collections can help libraries meet #EDI goals
📺 Watch a recording at bit.ly/ICILOND
📺 Watch a recording at bit.ly/ICILOND
October 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Thanks to Geraldine Hunwick, Rosaleen Williams, Holly Smith, Sarah Aitchison & Erika Delbecque @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @ucllccos.bsky.social for speaking to #RLUKICIL on how collections can help libraries meet #EDI goals
📺 Watch a recording at bit.ly/ICILOND
📺 Watch a recording at bit.ly/ICILOND
@uclspeccoll.bsky.social has appointed Monitor Books as the inaugural Small Press in Residence as part of celebrations marking 60 years since UCL’s Small Press Collection was established. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...
October 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
@uclspeccoll.bsky.social has appointed Monitor Books as the inaugural Small Press in Residence as part of celebrations marking 60 years since UCL’s Small Press Collection was established. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...
Researchers from the Sumner Lab talk about how their research informed the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social’s latest virtual reality exhibition, World of Wasps. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
October 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Researchers from the Sumner Lab talk about how their research informed the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social’s latest virtual reality exhibition, World of Wasps. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
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@ucl.ac.uk Staff and Students - join us for an Open Access Week webinar in which four speakers will consider the question: Who Owns Our Knowledge?
Wednesday 22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 📆
We hope you can make it! 👉 buff.ly/g0vGFc8
(Graphic from Open Access Week website, photo by Greg Rakozy)
Wednesday 22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 📆
We hope you can make it! 👉 buff.ly/g0vGFc8
(Graphic from Open Access Week website, photo by Greg Rakozy)
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
@ucl.ac.uk Staff and Students - join us for an Open Access Week webinar in which four speakers will consider the question: Who Owns Our Knowledge?
Wednesday 22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 📆
We hope you can make it! 👉 buff.ly/g0vGFc8
(Graphic from Open Access Week website, photo by Greg Rakozy)
Wednesday 22 October, 11am - 12:30pm 📆
We hope you can make it! 👉 buff.ly/g0vGFc8
(Graphic from Open Access Week website, photo by Greg Rakozy)
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We love hearing how our Open Access textbooks are being used in classrooms around the world 🌍
If you’ve adopted one for your course, let us know-your stories help us support more learners!
💬 DM or tag us
🔗 Browse free textbooks: t.co/6sxfFy6HF0
#OpenAccess
If you’ve adopted one for your course, let us know-your stories help us support more learners!
💬 DM or tag us
🔗 Browse free textbooks: t.co/6sxfFy6HF0
#OpenAccess
October 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
We love hearing how our Open Access textbooks are being used in classrooms around the world 🌍
If you’ve adopted one for your course, let us know-your stories help us support more learners!
💬 DM or tag us
🔗 Browse free textbooks: t.co/6sxfFy6HF0
#OpenAccess
If you’ve adopted one for your course, let us know-your stories help us support more learners!
💬 DM or tag us
🔗 Browse free textbooks: t.co/6sxfFy6HF0
#OpenAccess
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A huge congratulations to the winners of UCL Open Science and Scholarship Awards 2025! 🎉🍾
Read the announcement on our latest blog post 👉 buff.ly/UBQGnKy
UCL Staff and Students, celebrate with these colleagues at the awards presentation on Wednesday 22nd October 🏆 buff.ly/0aV34VC
Read the announcement on our latest blog post 👉 buff.ly/UBQGnKy
UCL Staff and Students, celebrate with these colleagues at the awards presentation on Wednesday 22nd October 🏆 buff.ly/0aV34VC
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A huge congratulations to the winners of UCL Open Science and Scholarship Awards 2025! 🎉🍾
Read the announcement on our latest blog post 👉 buff.ly/UBQGnKy
UCL Staff and Students, celebrate with these colleagues at the awards presentation on Wednesday 22nd October 🏆 buff.ly/0aV34VC
Read the announcement on our latest blog post 👉 buff.ly/UBQGnKy
UCL Staff and Students, celebrate with these colleagues at the awards presentation on Wednesday 22nd October 🏆 buff.ly/0aV34VC
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In celebration of the recent East and South East Asian Heritage Month, students and staff across have shared their book recommendations with us. Read through the list here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...
October 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
In celebration of the recent East and South East Asian Heritage Month, students and staff across have shared their book recommendations with us. Read through the list here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...
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UCL has been rated as a leading university for knowledge exchange for the fifth year in a row in Research England’s Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).
Read the news story: bit.ly/46tDarL
#KEF5
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Read the news story: bit.ly/46tDarL
#KEF5
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September 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
UCL has been rated as a leading university for knowledge exchange for the fifth year in a row in Research England’s Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).
Read the news story: bit.ly/46tDarL
#KEF5
@uclenterprise.bsky.social
Read the news story: bit.ly/46tDarL
#KEF5
@uclenterprise.bsky.social
Hello and welcome new students! We provide services and resources to support the world-class research, education and enterprise that is undertaken in UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lccos/library-culture-collections-and-open-science-lccos #WelcomeToUCL
September 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Hello and welcome new students! We provide services and resources to support the world-class research, education and enterprise that is undertaken in UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lccos/library-culture-collections-and-open-science-lccos #WelcomeToUCL
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This month's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAEducation.
This week we focus on #teaching, whether it’s in lecture theatres to students or the public, in classrooms or on the wards.
More images can be viewed by searching “teaching” in our Queen Square Archives tinyurl.com/4wr4963n
This week we focus on #teaching, whether it’s in lecture theatres to students or the public, in classrooms or on the wards.
More images can be viewed by searching “teaching” in our Queen Square Archives tinyurl.com/4wr4963n
![Arthur Dickson ['Dicky'] Wright (eminent neurosurgeon) on a ward round with doctors. 1962 (ref: QSA/1879)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jiuw5zk5r7hxyf3ev5ipwsjl/bafkreib4pl4ea4qzvr7jwmekz2j5nd2bqjvjwohhyy7obosoby3pbapzba@jpeg)
September 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This month's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAEducation.
This week we focus on #teaching, whether it’s in lecture theatres to students or the public, in classrooms or on the wards.
More images can be viewed by searching “teaching” in our Queen Square Archives tinyurl.com/4wr4963n
This week we focus on #teaching, whether it’s in lecture theatres to students or the public, in classrooms or on the wards.
More images can be viewed by searching “teaching” in our Queen Square Archives tinyurl.com/4wr4963n
We are delighted to announce the newly appointed Research Institute for Collections (RIC) Fellows to visit UCL to conduct research on topics using the university's archives, rare books, records, and museum collections. Read more here:
2025 RIC Fellows Appointed
We are delighted to announce the appointed fellows to visit UCL to conduct research on topics using UCL’s archives, rare books, records, and museum collections.
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
We are delighted to announce the newly appointed Research Institute for Collections (RIC) Fellows to visit UCL to conduct research on topics using the university's archives, rare books, records, and museum collections. Read more here:
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Object-based Learning workshop and book launch
15 Oct, 2:30–7pm with @ucllccos.bsky.social
Please join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
15 Oct, 2:30–7pm with @ucllccos.bsky.social
Please join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Object-based Learning workshop and book launch
Please join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Object-based Learning workshop and book launch
15 Oct, 2:30–7pm with @ucllccos.bsky.social
Please join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
15 Oct, 2:30–7pm with @ucllccos.bsky.social
Please join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Photos from ‘Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL’. It’s been a great exhibition by the Research Institute for Collections showcasing iconic presses from the 1960s and 1970s alongside recent acquisitions.
September 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Photos from ‘Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL’. It’s been a great exhibition by the Research Institute for Collections showcasing iconic presses from the 1960s and 1970s alongside recent acquisitions.
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Explore our Zoology collection after hours! Join us on a half-billion-year journey through the story of life on Earth at our upcoming museum late on 12 September as part of #HeritageOpenDays. https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/zoology-after-hours.html
September 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Explore our Zoology collection after hours! Join us on a half-billion-year journey through the story of life on Earth at our upcoming museum late on 12 September as part of #HeritageOpenDays. https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/zoology-after-hours.html
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Explore our Egyptology collection after hours! Join us on a 350,000-year journey through the story of Ancient Egypt at our upcoming museum lates on 13 and 19 September as part of #HeritageOpenDays. https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/egyptology-after-hours.html
September 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Explore our Egyptology collection after hours! Join us on a 350,000-year journey through the story of Ancient Egypt at our upcoming museum lates on 13 and 19 September as part of #HeritageOpenDays. https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/egyptology-after-hours.html
See publications of iconic presses from the 1960s and 1970s alongside recent acquisitions. Visit Senate House for the ‘Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL’ exhibition by the Research Institute for Collections until 31 August.
Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL - Senate House Library
Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL, also showing at Senate House until 31 August 2025, celebrates 60 years of collecting independent publishing at UCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
See publications of iconic presses from the 1960s and 1970s alongside recent acquisitions. Visit Senate House for the ‘Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL’ exhibition by the Research Institute for Collections until 31 August.
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🟠 #RLUKICIL | Towards equity & inclusion through special collections & archives | 20 Oct
This seminar will hear case studies from @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @ucllccos.bsky.social on how collections & archives help research libraries meet EDI goals
🎟 bit.ly/RLUKICIL
This seminar will hear case studies from @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @ucllccos.bsky.social on how collections & archives help research libraries meet EDI goals
🎟 bit.ly/RLUKICIL
August 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🟠 #RLUKICIL | Towards equity & inclusion through special collections & archives | 20 Oct
This seminar will hear case studies from @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @ucllccos.bsky.social on how collections & archives help research libraries meet EDI goals
🎟 bit.ly/RLUKICIL
This seminar will hear case studies from @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @ucllccos.bsky.social on how collections & archives help research libraries meet EDI goals
🎟 bit.ly/RLUKICIL
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In celebration of South Asian Heritage Month, students and staff have shared their book recommendations with us. Read through the list here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...
August 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
In celebration of South Asian Heritage Month, students and staff have shared their book recommendations with us. Read through the list here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...
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Find out more about what the practice of breaking everyday objects tells us about the lives of ordinary people in ancient Egypt. Come explore our display. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
August 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Find out more about what the practice of breaking everyday objects tells us about the lives of ordinary people in ancient Egypt. Come explore our display. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
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🎬 UCL Press Play presents The Greatest Good — a powerful series exploring Jeremy Bentham’s radical legacy & UCL’s founding ethos. Watch Bentham’s Defence of Sexual Liberty and tune into podcasts on queerness, history & ideas. 🎧 uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-pl... #UCLPressPlay #TheGreatestGood
UCL Press Play
UCL Press Play is a new initiative presenting documentary videos and podcasts featuring aspects of UCL’s sector-leading research, and casting light on the contribution UCL makes to society.
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July 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🎬 UCL Press Play presents The Greatest Good — a powerful series exploring Jeremy Bentham’s radical legacy & UCL’s founding ethos. Watch Bentham’s Defence of Sexual Liberty and tune into podcasts on queerness, history & ideas. 🎧 uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-pl... #UCLPressPlay #TheGreatestGood
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This year's theme for South Asian Heritage Month is Roots to Routes, exploring the rich journey of growth, and the evolving connections we make through generations. Share your book recommendations here: ucl-global.libwizard.com/f/SouthAsian...
July 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This year's theme for South Asian Heritage Month is Roots to Routes, exploring the rich journey of growth, and the evolving connections we make through generations. Share your book recommendations here: ucl-global.libwizard.com/f/SouthAsian...