A reading list for Bentham's birthday

Jeremy Bentham, renowned philosopher, jurist, social reformer and spiritual leader of UCL, would have turned 275 today. We'll definitely be taking a visit to say hello to his auto-icon in UCL's student centre today!

As you'd expect from the home of the Journal of Bentham Studies, we have a reading list's worth of titles for you to delve in to to find out more about his fascinating life and work. 

• Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia

• The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, v1

• The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, v2

• The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, v3

• The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, v4

• The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, v5

Open access books about/related to Bentham

• The Bentham Brothers and Russia

• Jeremy Bentham and Australia: Convicts, utility and empire

• Jeremy Bentham on Police: The unknown story and what it means for criminology

• Bentham and the Arts

• Happiness and Utility: Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen

• Memorandoms by James Martin: An Astonishing Escape from Early New South Wales