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30 Oct. 2026
Dead serious: 7 books for your Halloween reading (and watching) list
BFI Film Classics that prove horror deserves critical attention
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Philip Bowring on The Invention of Asia

Dethroning "Asia": Why a monolithic continent is a myth

Your book argues that "Asia" is a 19th-century European invention. Why is this monolithic label inaccurate, and how did the region's inhabitants historically view themselves instead?Philip Bowring [PB…

06 Nov. 2026

BFI Film Classics that prove horror deserves critical attention

Dead serious: 7 books for your Halloween reading (and watching) list

Here, we round up seven BFI Film Classics that tell the stories behind the films they cover and deserve a place on every horror fan's shelf this Halloween.

30 Oct. 2026
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Sang Duffy on a Day Working at Bloomsbury

Day in the Life of an Author Relations Associate

The office is dark as I’m the first to arrive. The air feels oppressive, as if resenting my presence. The harsh fluorescent lights strike on overhead one by one as I approach my desk, the silence scre…

23 Oct. 2026
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Marina Cano and Rosa García-Periago on OA, diversity and inclusivity in academia

Beyond the paywall: How open access amplifies precarious voices

Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia examines a wide array of academic failures, such as the failure to get academic employment, get promotion, complete research projects and, especially, make it as a woman…

16 Oct. 2026

Stephen Parnell on Concrete (Object Lessons)

Can we build a more sustainable world with concrete?

Perhaps concrete’s most poignant paradox is that it is not only the most constructive of materials but also the most destructive. It is responsible for about 8% of global CO2 emissions, more than avia…

09 Oct. 2026
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Sofie Logan on books that celebrate Black heritage and culture in the UK

A Black History Month reading list

In celebration, we have curated a special reading list of essential Black History books. You can explore these titles either open access on Bloomsbury Collections or with selected chapters made a…

02 Oct. 2026

Josh Thorpe on AI for Students

AI in higher education: Two fun ways to get students thinking

Here's a simple thing to try: Write a sentence about today's weather without using the letter E (and without using AI). This writing exercise is called a lipogram. It was popularized by the French exp…

25 Sep. 2026
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Josh Lubarr and Rebecca Goodheart on Shakespeare's World

Duty and disorder: Seeing Shakespeare through Elizabethan eyes

Forget what you know about psychology, astronomy, anatomy, and how the universe works. To enter Shakespeare’s plays on their own terms, you need to enter a world governed by humors and heavenly sphere…

18 Sep. 2026

Mary McAuliffe on Paris

Iconic iron: How Paris was built by modular construction and daring design

The uncontested star of the 1889 Paris universal exposition (celebrating the centennial of the French Revolution) was the Eiffel Tower, the outcome of a desire to feature something truly spectacular—a…

11 Sep. 2026

Robert M. Ewers on Project Management for Academic Researchers

7 tips for successful academic research projects

Academics are often far better at coming up with bright ideas than they are at finishing research projects. Most of us have seen our projects grind to an all too familiar endpoint: grants end before t…

04 Sep. 2026

Jeff Jarvis on discovering the joys of research

The inadvertent academic: A love letter to the library

I go to pains to inform anyone I work with that though I carry the title of “professor,” I am not an authentic academic, having snuck into the academy through the side door marked “journalism.”Among t…

28 Aug. 2026

Susan Farrell on The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five

Vonnegut’s War: From a Dresden slaughterhouse to the Planet Tralfamadore

February of 1945 was the coldest winter that Dresdeners could remember. Yet, in the waning days of the Second World War, the city had survived remarkably unscathed.To a small group of bedraggled and s…

21 Aug. 2026

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