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Presenting your work

Mary Vincent writes:

A history PhD establishes expertise. The focus is on knowledge, interpreting that knowledge and situating it within a published literature. This is careful, detailed work, referenced with full scholarly apparatus. But none of that knowledge actually matters if it stays locked up inside the researcher’s own head. Presenting your work is about communicating that knowledge, often to different audiences.This is a skill in its own right and, ironically, the scholarly skills learnt over the course of a PhD are poor preparation for it.

Historians in our own field or subfield are in some ways the least intimidating audience. They understand and appreciate the detail and subtle debates you are engaging with and will need far less in the way of context or introduction. But such audiences are rare. Even at an academic conference you are likely to be speaking to people with different specialist interests, whether of period, place or theme. Making what you are saying accessible and intelligible is key.

Preparing and presenting a seminar paper

There is a lot of advice available on the internet; some of it is extremely detailed and not all of it is good. UK and US university websites are a reliable source of sensible advice but this can be prescriptive, and not all of it will work for you. READ MORE

Preparing and presenting a conference paper

Conference papers are shorter than seminar papers—commonly twenty minutes—and run more tightly to time. You will present as part of a panel, and you should determine the kind of audience you are speaking to—whether specialist or general, historical or interdisciplinary—and be clear as to how long you have to speak. READ MORE

Intervening in academic discussion

Questions after a seminar or conference paper provide an important opportunity to participate in academic debate. This can be nerve-racking. Some university cultures have a robust style of questioning, which can lead to a critique, for example from the panel chair, to which you are expected to reply. In others, questions are much longer than the repartee style of question and answer than is common in Britain. Try to find out as much as you can in advance about what to expect. READ MORE

What happens in a viva?

A PhD viva is a unique opportunity to discuss your research with two experts. They will have read every word of your thesis and all their attention will be on you and your work. Though any examination is nerve-racking, you should try to enjoy the viva; this detailed, thoughtful consideration of your work doesn’t happen very often. READ MORE

Further information can be found at these useful websites:

RHS Race Work: A Review and Look Ahead

Over the past five years, the Royal Historical Society (RHS) has become a prominent and important voice for equality in the discipline and profession. This is particularly so on the subject of race and ethnicity, due in large part to the impact of the Society’s 2018 Report, ‘Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History’.

Between 2019 and 2022 the Society’s race work was co-ordinated by an RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality in History Fellowship, generously funded by the Past & Present Society.

The Fellowship—held by two early career historians, Dr Shahmima Akhtar (2019-20) and Dr Diya Gupta (2020-22)—enabled the Society’s equalities programme to develop in the wake of the 2018 Report and its follow-up papers.

Both Fellows have now gained permanent academic posts, with Diya’s move to a Lectureship coinciding with the Fellowship coming to a close in October 2022. The Society wishes Shahmima and Diya well in their academic careers, and is very grateful to all those who’ve contributed to the programme in recent years.

To mark the end of this phase, ‘Race, Ethnicity and Equality in History. A Review and Look Ahead’ (released on 3 November 2022), offers a summary of the Society’s recent race work.

The report also looks forward, with details of the Society’s current and forthcoming activities in the area of race, ethnicity and equality in History.

This current and future work is integral to the Society’s Council, originating both from within the Society and in partnership with external organisations. It’s our intention that in these ways we maintain the Society’s commitment to greater equality in History.

You can learn more about the Society’s current and ongoing Equalities work here. These initiatives include:

Masters’ Scholarships: for early career historians from groups underrepresented in academic history. The programme, seeks to actively address underrepresentation and encourage Black and Asian students to consider academic research in History. By supporting Masters’ students, the programme focuses on a key early stage in the academic training of future researchers.
‘Positive action’ workshops for early career historians of colour: these workshops offer one-to-one guidance and group discussion. Sessions cover CV writing, applications, and proposals for funded research, among other topics, for up to 30 historians at a time. This workshop runs annually, with a report from the first meeting (2021) available here.
‘Writing Race’, featuring new research on histories of research from guest contributors.
Funding for external projects including grants and prizes offered by the British Association for Nineteenth-Century American Historians and the Social History Society.

We also welcome ideas and proposal for new partnerships, allowing us to work collaboratively and pragmatically to address areas of need. If you would like to propose ideas for activities or partnerships please contact president@royalhistsoc.org.

‘Race, Ethnicity & Equality in History. A Review and Look Ahead’ (2022)

Released in November 2022, this ‘Review and Look Ahead’ offers an overview of the Society’s recent race work, including that of the RHS Race, Ethnicity & Equality in History Fellows (2019-22).

Building on these achievements, the Society continues its work to enhance representation and understanding of Black, Asian and ethnic minority historians and histories. Please see here for more on the Society’s Equalities work.

History in the News

Dr Susan Cohen ‘Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees’

2016 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of the independent MP, Eleanor Rathbone. Known as ‘the MP for refugees’ her campaigns on behalf of refugees in the Interwar and 2WW period have a strong resonance with the current crisis, carrying a powerful message as pertinent today as it was then.

Dr Susan Cohen’s monograph Rescue the Perishing: Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees was published in 2010. She is currently researching the role of women within refugee organisations in Britain before and during the Second World War. Susan is co-founder of the Remembering Eleanor Rathbone group.

The theme of Holocaust Memorial Day this year was ‘Don’t stand by’, a salutary reminder of the duty we all have, as responsible citizens, to speak out on behalf of people who are being oppressed or persecuted. Following the family motto ’what ought to be done, can be done’ Eleanor Rathbone, Independent MP for the Combined English Universities from 1929, embraced this obligation, devoting her working life to the needs of the under-represented in society, regardless of race, religion or gender. She never had a plan in her mind, but instead took up causes that came to her attention and which called for a strong advocate, moving seamlessly from national social and welfare concerns, equality for women, eliminating child poverty, improving housing and a host of other injustices. As a parliamentarian, only one of fourteen women returned in the 1929 election, she put her skills to good use, becoming the most powerful backbencher of the time.

Portrait of Eleanor Rathbone by Sir James Gunn, NPG

She extended the scope of her activism to Britain’s colonies, and to Palestine, then ruled under a British mandate, with feminist issues at the heart of her work. But it was the refugee cause, precipitated by Hitler’s accession to power in Germany in January 1933 that set her on a path that was to literally exhaust her, hastening her untimely death in January 1946. An anti-Fascist, anti-Nazi and anti-appeaser, she was the only female politician to denounce the new Nazi regime when the House of Commons met on 13 April 1933, warning of the dangers the regime posed to world peace. Presciently, she spoke of how the Nazis were “inflicting cruelties and crushing disabilities on large numbers of law-abiding peaceful German citizens, whose only offence is that they belong to a particular race or religion or profess certain political beliefs.” These were the very people whom she came to support, and for whom she became the most outspoken critic of government policy.

by Howard Coster, half-plate film negative, 1938

Duchess of Atholl, 1938, NPG

In 1937 she and her fellow MP, Katherine, Duchess of Atholl, organised the rescue of some 4,000 children from the Basque combat zone during the Spanish Civil War and when Eleanor and her allies found out, in early 1939, that more Republicans were at risk of summary executions and reprisals, and that the British government was unwilling to help rescue them or offer protection for rescue vessels, they simply circumvented officialdom. Ships were organised to run the blockade and the National Joint Committee succeeded in getting several boatloads of refugees out, and to safety. But it was the fateful events of 1938 that completely altered the landscape – from the annexation of Austria in March; the orchestrated anti-Jewish pogroms across Germany and Austria, ‘Kristallnacht’, of 9/10 November; and the intervening signing of the Munich agreement in September, which gave the Nazis carte blanche to occupy the Sudetenland in West Czechoslovakia. The latter in particular created an unprecedented refugee crisis as thousands of people, including but not exclusively Jews, sought safety in, and then escape from Prague.

Eleanor Rathbone felt a personal responsibility for Britain’s part in this human disaster, and in response set up, and led her purely voluntary Parliamentary Committee on Refugees in November 1938, quickly gathering more than 200 supporting MPs. The remit of the PCR was:

to influence the Government and public opinion in favour of a generous yet carefully safeguarded refugee policy, including large-scale schemes of permanent settlement inside or outside of Empire; also, since thousands of refugees would perish while awaiting such schemes – temporary reception homes in this country where refugees can be maintained, sorted out and eventually migrated, except in cases where their abilities can be profitably utilised here without injustice to our own workers.”

Jewish refugees cross from Czechoslovakia to Bratislava. Photo: Getty Images

The remit has an uncanny resonance with the current refugee crisis. With some minor alterations, it could have been written in 2016. The Czech refugees were now at the heart of Eleanor Rathbone’s campaigning activities as she urged the government to issue more visa, relax entry restrictions and make good their promise of a loan to Czechoslovakia. The outbreak of war meant the cancellation of any outstanding visas, and dashed hopes of escape, so she now turned her attention to refugees at home, as she championed their fair and humane treatment. Now considered enemy aliens, and classified by a tribunal system, there were some 55,000 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria amongst the approximatly 80,000 refugees living here at the time. Some 6,782 in Category B, had mobility restrictions imposed upon them, affecting their ability to work and to be financially independent. Employers were desperate to take on suitable refugee workers, but permits were taking forever to be issued. This treatment, she argued, was counter-productive . It struck at the heart of her sense of justice and she did everything in her power to ameliorate the situation. But she was always patriotic, and never lost sight of the priority, which was the safety of the country and its citizens.

21st May 1940: A British soldier guarding an internment camp for 'enemy aliens', at Huyton housing estate in Liverpool. (Photo by Marshall/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Internment camp in Liverpool, May 1940. Photo: Getty images

Deputations, questions, letters, phone calls, liaising with every refugee committee and activist, and enlisting the support of other MPs were all part of her armoury. The mass internment of around 27,600 enemy aliens in May 1940 served only to exacerbate an already challenging situation and to plunge Eleanor Rathbone and her committee into a maelstrom of activity as they sought the release of thousands of refugees. She put over 80 parliamentary questions on internment alone; the issues pursued including the importance of separating Nazi internees from non-Nazis; the shocking living conditions in many of the camps; the food shortages and lack of medical care. Once again the parallels with refugee camps and detention centres for asylum seekers cannot be ignored. The response to Rathbone’s urgent requests for a more generous immigration policy followed a pattern, including claims that it would fuel domestic anti-Semitism. In a desperate effort at countering this assertion, in late 1942 she established the National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror. The remit was to disseminate information at home about the mass extermination of Jews in Europe (information that the BBC in particular was unwilling to broadcast) and to promote small scale rescue missions. Despite the lack of success, the fact that Eleanor doggedly pursued these goals in the face of government intransigence and kept the subject in the public eye, is testimony to her humanity and determination.

Poignant words, written in 1943, highlight the struggle she envisaged people would have to expiate their shame:

If peace came tomorrow, we could not forget the millions for whom it would come too late, nor wash our hands of the stain of blood.’”

Nor was she able to hide her shame at Britain’s myopia, for she was convinced that with:

…greater foresight, courage (sic) there would have been no war, and if our policy towards refugees had been less miserably cautious, selfish and unimaginative, thousands of those already dead or in danger of death, might now be free and happy, contributing from their rich store of talent and industry to the welfare of mankind.” [i]

Today’s political situation is not the same as that which prevailed during the Second World War. But Eleanor Rathbone’s assessment of the official response to the humanitarian disaster then resonates with the current crisis now. Calls for an imaginative and generous response reflect her belief that Britain’s tradition of liberty, generosity and asylum were of profound importance, even in wartime.

[i] EFR `Speech notes on the Refugee Question’, 16 December 1942. RP XIV. 3.85.

Eleanor Rathbone died 70 years ago in January 1946, and is being commemorated at various events throughout the year. Her refugee work will be remembered at a one-day conference being held in central London on Monday 20 June 2016, World Refugee Day. Welcome to Britain? Refugees Then and Now. A conference in memory of Eleanor Rathbone 1872-1946, the ‘MP for refugees’.

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ECH Publishing: After Publication

Unlike with journal articles, you are almost guaranteed to get some feedback, at least within the first year, in the form of book reviews. Your publisher will ask you for a list of journals that are relevant to your book – you’re entitled to give them a reasonably long list, though make sure that they really are relevant and do publish book reviews. Include online book review sites.

You’re entitled to check up to ensure that the publishers have sent copies of your book to at least a healthy selection of the journals that you have specified. Most book reviews are pretty anodyne. They’ll tell the reader what the book is about and give it a general recommendation. Sometimes they’ll be more, or less, enthusiastic. You may well feel that some reviewers have been unfair, perhaps protecting their turf or their own interpretation. That’s the luck of the draw. You have to hope that across the spread of reviews you get justice.

It is almost never a good idea to write to a negative reviewer (or to the journal) to claim a right-to-reply. There is no such thing, unless you can prove malice, in which case you ought to be in court. The economics of book publishing are not changing as fast as they might. Most academic monographs are now selling under 400 copies each. They will sit in a limited number of libraries, where they will not be read by many (if any) people. This is partly because a lot of monographs are being produced more for hiring and promotion purposes than out of intellectual necessity, and partly because monographs are the part of the publishing landscape least accessible to online users.

It may be that the spread of e-books and the development of open-access options for monographs (still only in their infancy) may address this latter deficiency. Regardless, you can take heart from the knowledge that, as with journal articles, their shelf-life is very long indeed. If anything you write is still read at all 100 years from now, it’s likely to be a book.

RHS Events Programme 2024

New events will be added to this programme as the year progresses; please check back for updates which will also be announced via social media.

Tuesday 23 January 2024 at 5.30 pm

Clare Anderson (Leicester)
‘Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism: Aftermaths of Penal Transportation in the British Empire’
Joint RHS-GHIL Lecture, at the German Historical Institute London and Online

Thursday 1 February 2024 at 6.00 pm

Levi Roach (Exeter)
‘Charting Authority after Empire: Documentary Culture and Political Legitimacy in Post-Carolingian Europe’
RHS Lecture, Mary Ward House, London, and Online

Tuesday 20 February 2024 at 6.00 pm

In Conversation with Greg Jenner: ‘Finding the Funny in Public History’
RHS Event, Mary Ward House, London, and Online

Wednesday 6 March 2024, 10.00 am – 5.00 pm

‘Historical Legacies: collecting history, historical collections and community voices’
History and Archives in Practice, 2024
Annual event in association with The National Archives and the Institute of Historical Research. This year in partnership with Cardiff University
Day Conference, at Cardiff University

Wednesday 13 March 2024 at 5.00 pm

Fay Bound Alberti (King’s College London)
‘Why History Matters to Medicine: The Case of Face Transplants’
RHS Sponsored Lecture, at the University of York. Part of the Society’s Visit to historians at the universities of York and York St John.

Thursday 25 April 2024 at 2.00 pm

‘History Podcasting: An Introduction and Guide’
with Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill) and Dave Musgrove (BBC History Magazine)
Online Training Event

Tuesday 30 April 2024 at 2.00 pm

‘Doing History in Public 1: Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums’
with Andrew Smith (QMUL), Olwen Purdue (Queen’s University Belfast) and Caitriona Beaumont (London South Bank)
Online Conversation Series

Friday 3 May 2024 at 6.00 pm

Julia Laite (Birkbeck)
‘Possible Maps: Ways of Knowing and Unknowing at the Edge of Empire (Newfoundland c. 1763-1829)’
RHS Lecture, Mary Ward House, London, and Online

Thursday 23 May 2024

Corinne Fowler (Leicester)
‘Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain’
RHS Sponsored Lecture, at Brunel University London. Part of the Society’s Visit to historians at Brunel University.

Friday 14 June 2024 at 2.00 pm

‘Getting Published: a Guide to Monograph Publishing for Early Career Historians’
with Meredith Carroll (Manchester University Press), Elizabeth Hurren (New Historical Perspectives), Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London) and Jane Winters (V-P for Publications, Royal Historical Society)
Online Training Event for Early Career Historians

Thursday 20 June 2024 at 10.00 am

‘Doing History in Public 2: Print’
with Andrew Smith (QMUL) and Caitriona Beaumont (London South Bank)
Online Conversation Series

Wednesday 3 July 2024 at 6.00 pm

The RHS Prothero Lecture: Peter Frankopan (Oxford)
‘On the Challenges and Purposes of Global History’
At Mary Ward House, London, and Online

followed by the Society’s Summer Party, 2024

Wednesday 17 July 2024 at 2.00 pm

‘AI, History and Historians’
with Helen Hastie (Edinburgh), Matthew L. Jones (Princeton), Anna-Maria Sichani (School of Advanced Study, University of London) and Jane Winters (V-P for Publications, Royal Historical Society)
Online Panel Discussion

Friday 13 September 2024 at 6.00 pm

Caroline Pennock (Sheffield)
‘Catholics or Cannibals? Indigenous Brazilians at the Court of Louis XIII’
RHS Lecture, at Mary Ward House, London, and Online

Wednesday 18 September 2024 at 6.00 pm

‘Doing History in Public 3: Broadcast’
with Andrew Smith (QMUL), Olwen Purdue (Queen’s University Belfast) and Caitriona Beaumont (London South Bank)
Online Conversation Series

Tuesday 5 November 2024 at 6.00 pm

The RHS Public History Lecture: Janina Ramirez (Oxford)
‘Writing Women into History’
In association with Gresham College, London

Friday 22 November 2024 at 6.00pm

RHS Presidential Address
Preceded by the Society’s Anniversary Meeting (AGM)
Mary Ward House, London, and Online

‘Futures for the History Journal: Reflections & Projections’, 6 December 2022

Panel Discussion

17:00 GMT, Tuesday 6 December 2022, Online

Speakers at the event

Dr Kate Smith (Co-editor, Transactions of the RHS / University of Birmingham)
Dr Harshan Kumarasingham (Co-editor, Transactions of the RHS / University of Edinburgh)
Professor Sarah Knott (Indiana University, and former Acting Editor of the American Historical Review)
Georgia Priestley (Publisher, History Journals, at Cambridge University Press)
Professor Karin Wulf (Director, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, USA)
Professor Emma Griffin (RHS President and University of East Anglia, chair)

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About the event

November 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of publication of Volume One of the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Transactions is the longest-running English-language academic history journal, predating first publication of the English Historical Review (1886) and the American Historical Review (1895), among other titles.

November 2022 also sees important changes to the current Transactions. This year’s volume will come with a new design and paperback format. It’s also the first in 150 years to include external submissions not previously read to the Society; the first to be edited by historians who are not members of RHS Council; and the first to engage an editorial board.

This event is an opportunity to take stock at a time that’s both an anniversary and a new departure.

Journals have long been, and remain, central to the communication of historical research. As a publishing form, History journals have proved remarkably durable, with developments typically taking place within an established framework of article types and formats. At the same time, the very recent history of History (and other) journals points to quickening and more disruptive change — most notably in terms of online access and publishing models; but also with reference to innovations of form, tone and purpose.

In this panel, UK and US historians associated with leading journals (as editors, publishers, innovators, authors and readers) consider the extent, impact and possible outcomes of these recent changes. At an important time for Transactions, we’ll also explore how far journal publishing fits with current research and pedagogical priorities; and what innovations our panellists — and you — propose as ‘Futures for the History Journal’.

About the panellists

Kate Smith is Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century History at the University of Birmingham. In January 2022 she was appointed co-editor of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. With her co-editor Dr Harshan Kumarasingham, Kate is responsible for the journal’s creative development in terms of academic content and format. Kate’s publications include Material Goods, Moving Hands: Perceiving Production in England, 1700-1830 (2014) and The East India Company at Home (co-edited with Margot Finn, 2018). Her current project is a monograph provisionally entitled Losing Possession in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Harshan Kumarasingham is Senior Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Edinburgh. With Kate Smith, he is co-editor from 2022 of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, and jointly responsible for this new phase in the journal’s contribution to scholarly debate. Harshan’s research interests include constitutional history and decolonisation. His publications include A Political Legacy of the British Empire. Power and the Parliamentary System in Post-Colonial India and Sri Lanka (2013) and the edited collections Viceregalism. The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth and Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation (both 2020).
Professor Sarah Knott is Sally M. Reahard Professor of History at Indiana University. She has served as both Associate and Acting Editor of the American Historical Review, the American historical profession’s flagship journal. In 2013, she was elected to the Editorial Board of the UK’s journal Past & Present. Sarah’s most recent publications include Mother. An Unconventional History (Penguin, 2019) and Mothering’s Many Labours (a 2020 special issue of Past & Present, co-edited with Emma Griffin).
Georgia Priestley is Publisher, History Journals for Cambridge University Press, with responsibility for a wide range of titles, including Contemporary European History, Historical Journal, Journal of Global Studies, Modern Intellectual History and Urban History.
Professor Karin Wulf is Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian, John Carter Brown Library, and Professor of History at Brown University, Rhode Island. A historian of gender, family and politics in eighteenth-century British America, Karin’s forthcoming book is Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America with Oxford University Press. Prior to joining Brown in 2021, Karin was Executive Directive of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, which includes the journal William & Mary Quarterly among its titles. Karin is well-known for her innovations in journal (and wider) publishing, and as a leading commentator on scholarly communications for historians through her regular contributions to The Scholarly Kitchen.
Professor Emma Griffin (chair) is President of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of Modern British History at the University of East Anglia. A specialist in nineteenth-century economic and social history, Emma has extensive experience of journal publishing, having served as Editor for the journals History (2012-16) and Historical Journal (2017-21).

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Call for Editors: Transactions of the RHS

The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint two academic Editors to lead on the scholarly oversight and development of its journal, the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (TRHS), published by Cambridge University Press. The two new appointments take effect from 1 January 2022 and coincide with the journal’s move, in 2021, to accepting external submissions of articles, for peer review and publication.

We are looking for editors with complementary research expertise, one in medieval or early modern, the other in any field of modern history, with at least one specialising in European or Global History. Given the nature of this dual appointment, and the need for collaborative working, we welcome joint applications from two potential editors to work together; however, individual applications are equally encouraged. Applicants must be Fellows of the Royal Historical Society.

A full editorial board will be appointed from early 2022 to assist the two Editors in developing the Transactions to reflect the research interests and priorities of the Society’s membership. Those interested in joining the new editorial team but currently lacking the experience or time required to take on an editorial role are invited to use the RHS application portal (see below) to submit an expression of interest in joining the Transactions editorial board.

This is an exciting new phase for the journal as we extend its scale and scope. If you wish to discuss the journal or the Editor posts in advance of an application, please contact Professor Emma Griffin, RHS President (president@royalhistsoc.org) or Professor Andrew Spicer, RHS Literary Director (aspicer@brookes.ac.uk).

The deadline for applications, via the RHS Applications Portal, is 11:59PM, Friday 15 October 2021

About the Transactions

The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is the flagship journal of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). It has been publishing the highest quality scholarship in history for over 150 years. The journal publishes articles dealing with any geographical area from the early middle ages to the very recent past, and is interested in articles that cover entirely new ground, thematically or methodologically, as well as those that engage critically on established themes in existing literatures. Alongside research articles, contributions that engage with pedagogy and key issues facing the profession are welcomed. In line with the RHS’s commitment to supporting postgraduate and early career historians, the journal encourages submissions from younger scholars and seeks to engage constructively and positively with new authors.

Traditionally edited by the trustees of the RHS, and confined to publishing articles based on lectures presented at RHS events, the Transactions has recently opened its pages to external submissions. The Society is now seeking two external editors to take on the work of editing the journal. We are looking for editors with complementary research expertise, one in medieval or early modern, the other in any field of modern history, with at least one specialising in European or Global History. Applicants must be Fellows of the Royal Historical Society. Given the nature of this dual appointment, and the need for collaborative working, we welcome joint applications from two potential editors to work together; however, individual applications are equally encouraged.

The Transactions is currently published once per year by Cambridge University Press, and we have plans to increase the size and scope of the journal. As a member of the new editorial team, you will have a strong commitment to helping us realise that ambition. It is vital that the successful candidates have genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for the broad, interdisciplinary scope of the journal and creative, imaginative and sustainable ideas for its further development. Applicants must be able to demonstrate an interest in taking part in methodologically diverse historical debates, in connecting with new authors and new audiences, and in actively promoting the Transactions as a home for research articles that are novel and accessible in equal measure.

The position attracts an annual honorarium linked to the volume of submissions and currently set at £500. Ideally, the successful candidates will be able to take up the position on 1 January 2022. They will be fully supported by the outgoing editors, by trustees, the RHS’s Academic Director and other staff at the Society, as well as, in due course, an editorial board. The successful candidates will have a six-month trial period before committing to take on their positions.

TRHS Editorial Board: expressions of interest

As part of our redevelopment plans, we will also be establishing an active editorial board to assist the editors in their work. This too is a new development for the journal. The new editors will, in collaboration with the RHS, help to define and appoint this editorial board. We expect to have at least the first set of editorial members in post by early 2022, with remaining members appointed later in the year.

Those interested in joining the new editorial team but currently lacking the experience or time required to take on an editorial role are invited to use the same ‘Editors, TRHS’ application form via the RHS portal (see below) to submit an expression of interest in joining the Transactions editorial board.

About the two Editorship roles

Responsibilities of the editors include:

Developing and implementing a strategy to grow the journal, further enhance the position of the journal both in the academic community and in relation to other leading journals
Reading submissions in a timely fashion and deciding whether the article should be rejected or continue to external peer review
Organising the peer-review process, all conducted through the online system, Scholar One, including identifying appropriate reviewers and ensuring that reports are received in a reasonable timeframe
Making timely decisions, based on peer-review reports, as to whether an article should be accepted for publication
Commissioning and overseeing the production of occasional alternative formats, such as Special Issues, relevant to the journal’s aims and scope
Reporting to the RHS President and trustees (principally the Society’s Publication Committee as well as Council) on editorial strategy, progress, and proposed developments; attending Publication Committee meetings held 2-3 times / year
Taking initial responsibility for any authorial disputes or concerns as the lead figures for the Society’s journal, and on behalf of trustees
Collaborating with the social media team at the RHS to help promote the journal and its authors
Building the journal’s community of contributors and reviewers, including establishing the Editorial Board and periodically reviewing it
Attending editorial team meetings
Acting as a liaison between the journal and the broader academic community, including identifying promising contributors and/or commissioning articles
Participating in conversations and negotiations with the journal’s publisher
Representing the journal and promoting it when possible, with the support of the RHS and the publisher

Specifications

In appointing the two Editors, the RHS seeks applicants who have:

Experience of academic editorial work, broadly defined
Expertise in some field of interest in the journal’s scope, as well as a willingness to work beyond their own specific expertise
Existing scholarly networks and experience of academic collaboration and/or organisation
Flexibility to be able to support the journal’s editorial process throughout the calendar year
Has knowledge and experience of academic publishing and editing processes
Has a PhD or similar in a relevant field. We anticipate that this position might be of interest to both early and mid-career academics; we are happy to receive applications from individuals at different career stages.
Can attend regular editorial and RHS Publication Committee meetings (potentially online).

How to apply

Submission must be made via the Society’s applications platform.

Two Editors posts

Those interested in making an application for one of the two Editors posts should send:

a CV (no more than 3 pages)
a letter / statement outlining their ability to perform the role and relevant experience
a summary of no more than 500 words outlining their plans for developing the journal in terms of extent and intellectual ambition
The name of two referees. We will not contact referees without prior permission

Expressions of interest for the Editorial Board

Those expressing interest in joining the new editorial board (also from January 2022), should use the same application link and form. In this case please provide us with:

a CV (no more than 3 pages)
a statement of no more than 500 words setting out your interest in the board, your suitability, and what you would bring to the role and development of the journal

Applicants are very welcome both to apply for the Editor roles and express an interest in the editorial board. Please make this clear in you application and you will be considered for both positions.

Informal enquiries about the role may be made to: Professor Emma Griffin (president@royalhistsoc.org) or Professor Andrew Spicer (aspicer@brookes.ac.uk).

Questions about the application process may be sent to: administration@royalhistsoc.org.

Deadline for applications: 11:59PM, Friday 15th October 2021

ECH Publishing: Chapters in Books

Books and a Bookcase, 19th century, Keisai Eisen, Japanese, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain,

Unlike the practice of many other disciplines, historians publish a lot in collections of essays – normally not all their own essays, but collections ‘from divers hands’ edited by one or two colleagues. These collections often arise from a conference on a focused topic. (Sometimes a conference can also materialise as a special issue of a journal.)

Sometimes they have been put together as a Festschrift for a senior or retiring academic by their students. Sometimes they just flow from the conviction of the editor that there is a topic that a lot of people are working on independently, and which would benefit from being brought together in one package. In many respects chapters in books function just like journal articles. You’ll get asked to submit your paper to the editor, who will decide whether it does indeed fit into the theme of the volume. You may have been supplied in advance with a proposal for the volume, which sets out a minimum common programme, to which your chapter should seek to conform.

Some degree of peer review will be applied. It may be that the editor has had the proposal for the volume peer-reviewed by the publisher (in which only an abstract of your chapter has been included); more rarely, the publisher will want to peer-review the whole volume, once all the manuscripts have been submitted. Once the editor and the publisher have accepted the final text, your chapter will be copy-edited and proofread much as a journal article is. When it’s published, you will probably receive one free copy of the book. But chapters in books have additional pluses – and minuses.

Put plainly, standards are not so high for edited collections, so it’s easier to get into them, especially as an early-career scholar. It can be gratifying to be solicited for publication, rather than having to undergo gruelling anonymous peer-review on a competitive basis for a journal. It seems like an easy way to build a publication record from scratch. But that’s why standards are not so high – the peer-review tends to be light and non-competitive, a pretty basic minimum standard only being applied. Collections of essays tend also not to get wide readerships.

They’re not (at present) much available online, and they will likely sell only 150-350 copies at very high prices to a select group of libraries. Of course, we all know chapters in books that have revolutionized our fields, and collections on specialist topics can be very innovative, even pioneering.

On average, though, they’re not. So by all means be flattered by a solicitation – take the opportunity to publish – but tread carefully, and don’t make a habit of publishing exclusively through these outlets.