An award-winning crowdsourcing initiative led by the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London, engaging people in the transcription of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for a new edition of his Collected Works.
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Publication Day 📖🍾🪩🎉:
'The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 14: Supplementary Letters', ed. P. Schofield, T. Causer, and C. Riley, is now available in open access from UCL Press (@uclpress.bsky.social).
Available in hard/paperback, or free .pdf: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-cor...
On the journal blog, author Steven Sverdlik discusses his two articles:
Bentham’s Utilitarian Penal Code
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We were honoured to gather to celebrate the life and work of Dr Paul Ayris, Pro-Vice Provost, @ucllccos.bsky.social, and UCL Press founder, and to mark the launch of his book Thomas Cranmer’s Register.
Read more about the event and Paul’s extraordinary contributions: uclpress.co.uk/celebrating-...
As @ucl.ac.uk celebrates its bicentennial this year, UCL Press explores the life and legacy of its spiritual founder, Jeremy Bentham. Explore the legacy of Jeremy Bentham on the Journal of Bentham Studies blog:
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Three new boxes of Bentham manuscripts are now available to read and transcribe on Transcribe Bentham, namely Box 40, 46, and 53, containing some of Bentham's Constitutional Code and some of his writings on judicial evidence and procedure 📜🖋️
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The second part of Steven Sverdlik's article on Bentham and punishment, entitled 'Bentham’s Project of Applied Ethics, c. 1780: A Penal Code. Part 2: Punishment', has now been published in the Journal of Bentham Studies by @uclpressjournals.bsky.social. 📃✍️
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10 new boxes of Bentham manuscripts from the Bentham Papers at UCL have now been uploaded to the Transcription Desk on Transcribe Bentham, namely Boxes 77, 83, 99, 134, 136, 155, 158, 170, 171, and 173, containing a total of 2,880 pages. 📝📣🎉
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Coming soon from UCL Press (@uclpress.bsky.social), 'The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 14: Supplementary Letters', edited by P. Schofield, T. Causer, and C. Riley. ✉️📖
ft. 252 letters written to/from Bentham, and 19 others of biographical interest:
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-cor...
A total of 44,796 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 5 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏
This volume, which supplements the main chronological series of The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, contains 252 letters written to and from Jeremy Bentham, 19 letters written to and from individual...
