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Please note that the Open Library of Humanities journal is no longer accepting general submissions. Please only use this page to submit if you are submitting an article to an open call for one of our Special Collections; general submissions will not be considered at this time.
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SectionsPublic Submissions
Peer Reviewed
Indexed
'An Unconventional MP': Nancy Astor, public women and gendered political culture
Representing the Medieval in Popular Culture: Remembering the Angevins
Medieval Minds and Matter
[re]Framing the Arts: Sustainable Strategies in the Age of Climate Action
Cultural Representations of Machine Vision
Colonialities in Dispute: Discourses on Colonialism and Race in the Spanish State
Correction
Editorial
Local and Universal in Irish Literature and Culture
Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action
Production Archives 02: Production Contexts
Production Archives 03: Archival Practices
Scholarly Communications and Higher Education
The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine
The Working-Class Avant-Garde
The Encounter Between Asian and Western Art, 20th-21st Centuries