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August 19, 2026
Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market has received an honourable mention in the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Amaury Talbot Prize.
UCL Press Joins the Open Book Collective
July 20, 2026
UCL Press is now part of the Open Book Collective’s University Presses package, a collective funding initiative supporting a more equitable and sustainable future for open access book publishing.
Staying vigilant: recognising promotional scams targeting authors
July 17, 2026
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