To celebrate Open Access week, Alison Oliver from the Voltaire Foundation discusses Open Voltaire, a new open access resource that complements Oxford University Voltaire, offering a suite of freely available digital tools to support research into Voltaire's life, works, and legacy.
Celebrating International Open Access Week 2026
“The Cost of Knowledge” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week, running from 19th - 25th October 2026. Read on to find out the latest #oa news from LUP.
Florescence of power: Benvenuto Cellini’s Narcissus as a botanical allegory in the court of Cosimo I de’ Medici | Sculpture Journal 35.3 Featured Article
The editors of Sculpture Journal have selected 'Florescence of power: Benvenuto Cellini’s Narcissus as a botanical allegory in the court of Cosimo I de’ Medici' by Alexandra Dvorkin as the Featured Article in Sculpture Journal 35.3. The article reconsiders Narcissus (1548–65), Benvenuto Cellini’s marble sculpture, as a sophisticated botanical-political statement rather than merely a mythological rendering. Free to read for a limited time.
Huguenot memory, 1689-1757: Narratives of imprisonment, enslavement and exile
Drawing on the memoirs of French Protestant prisoner Jean Marteilhe, Nora Baker explores a dramatic maritime incident that turns social hierarchies upside down. The story offers a fascinating glimpse into how Huguenots remembered experiences of persecution, imprisonment, and survival.
World Mental Health Day 2026: How was mental health visualised?
Making Madness Visible explores how societies have pictured insanity, from medieval fools to modern brain scans. Alvise Sforza Tarabochia shows how these images not only reflect but also shape ideas of madness, defining boundaries between sanity and insanity while questioning their stability across history and culture. For World Mental Health Day 2026, the author guides the reader through five images from their monograph, exploring how madness and mental health have been depicted historically.
