The Society’s academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, publishes a wide range of content from historians of all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages, worldwide. This includes, in addition to research articles, regular new content on the practice of history teaching and historical research.
New work on practice and approach appears in ‘The Common Room’ section of the journal, which features commentary pieces by historians within and outside higher education.
A selection of 16 recent commentaries on teaching and research are listed below – with all content published free Open Access for TRHS by Cambridge University Press.
- ‘Transcription and Recognition in the Oral History Interview’, by Lucy Newby and Fearghus Roulston (August 2026)
- ‘On Detail in Historical Writing’, by Joe Moran (July 2026)
- ‘Positionality in Oral History Research: Proximities and Paradoxes of “Insider” Status’, by Nilakshi Das (July 2026)
- ‘Apprentice to the Trade: Reflections on the Craft of Writing History’, by Robert Colls (May 2026)
- ‘Rethinking Engagement: Insights from UK History Departments’, by Sarah Jones and Simon Peplow (May 2026)
- ‘Bede or Beowulf? Reflecting on the Constructed Narratives of Teaching Medieval History in Schools in England’, by Toby Purser (April 2026)
- ‘Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources’, by Ruth Ahnert, Katherine McDonough and Daniel C. S. Wilson (February 2026)
- ‘Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment’, by Quinn Slobodian, Priya Lal, Gary Gerstle and Tehila Sasson (January 2026)
- ‘Teaching History Inclusively: A Pedagogical Case Study from an Institution Shaped by Empire’, by Eleanor Newbigin and Sarah Tucker (December 2025)
- ‘The Historian in the Age of AI’, by Chris Campbell (December 2025)
- ‘Russian History without Russia: Archive Encounters in an Era of Restricted Access’, by Jamie Bryson (October 2025)
- ‘Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography’, by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison (September 2025)
- ‘Digitised Sources, Materiality and “Interim Archives”: Archive Encounters in Asia and the United Kingdom’, by Jeremy Goh (April 2025)
- ‘”Pity the poor independent scholar!”: The Lament of a Latecomer Historian’, by John Sanders (October 2024)
- ‘Material and Digital Archives: The Case of Wills’, by Harry Smith and Emily Vine (September 2024)
- ‘Promoting Well-being through History Teaching’, by David Stack (September 2024)
The journal’s Co-editors and Editorial Board warmly welcome submission of commentary articles on practice and debate, as well as new writing based on archival research. All recent TRHS content is available here here, and published Open Access at no charge to the author.
For more on Transactions, and how to submit an article for review, please see here.
HEADER IMAGE: ‘Smid aan het werk in zijn smidse’ (‘Blacksmith at work in his forge’), detail, by Willem Witsen (Dutch, 1860-1923), Rijksmuseum, public domain