“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.
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.
The Moment of Trevor Griffiths’ Comedians: When Jokes Became Lead Pellets
Marking fifty years since the premiere of Trevor Griffiths’ Comedians, Stephen Wagg reflects on the changing role of comedy in modern society. He traces the rise of alternative comedy, the decline of a shared national comedy culture, and the growing influence of comedians in shaping political and social conversations.
What Can Translation Do?
In a new blog post to mark International Translation Day 2026, World Writing in French series editors Charles Forsdick and Martin Munro reflect on translation's role in sustaining linguistic and literary diversity, and ask an urgent question: what can translation do?
