At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector about research culture, what this means for the humanities, the potential benefits of open access, the role of publishing and our own role as a publisher.
In this series of blog posts, recent UoL Press authors share their own publishing experiences and words of advice and support for new authors, along with their views on open access and what more publishers can do to work with the research community to help build supportive, collaborative and open research and publishing cultures.
In our next post in the series, we talk to Laura Carter and Freddy Foks, two of the editors of Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out. Laura Carter is an historian of modern Britain whose work focuses on histories of education, gender, and social change. Her first book, Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (2021) was nominated for the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Book Prize, 2022. She is now working on a project about secondary education and social change in the United Kingdom since 1945. Freddy Foks is an historian of modern Britain and the British Empire with research interests in migration history and the history of the social sciences. His book Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development and the Reinvention of Society in Britain (2023) was awarded the Constance Blackwell Prize by the International Society for Intellectual History. He is currently working on a book about emigration and thinking about a new project about ships.