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President of the Royal Historical Society, 2024-2028 Open Call for Nominations from RHS Fellows

Presidents of the Royal Historical Society serve a four-year term. That of the current President, Professor Emma Griffin, will end in November 2024. The Council of the Royal Historical Society is now beginning the search for its next President to serve from November 2024 to November 2028.

In addition to its own search, the Society’s Council here issues an open call for nominations for the Presidency, 2024-28. Fellows of the Society are invited to nominate potential candidates. Nominees for the RHS Presidency must be current Fellows of the Society, resident in the UK.This email provides further information on the position of RHS President and the required specifications and attributes of this role.

Nominations of potential candidates may be sent to the Council’s Presidential Selection Committee via president.selection.panel@royalhistsoc.org, and should arrive on or before 27 August 2023.

Questions about the role and the process, from either nominators or potential nominees, may be directed to the Selection Committee: president.selection.panel@royalhistsoc.org.

About the role

The President of the Royal Historical Society has two distinct responsibilities: to work with trustees to support and enable the direction, vision and values of the charity; and to work with the Society’s professional staff to oversee good governance, financial management, compliance with charity law etc., and to implement the trustees’ broader vision for the Society. For the first, the President requires stature, dynamism and eloquence sufficient to hold the trust and respect of Council, and in turn to inspire confidence from the membership and wider profession. For the second, the President needs an active, hands-on, collaborative stance in order to work effectively with a small team of professional staff.

The President is a leadership role for a broad profession. The incumbent needs to be able and willing to speak in ways that demonstrate leadership, while remaining within the boundaries and role of a charity and respectful of the wide diversity of opinions and values amongst our membership.  S/he requires the confidence and willingness to speak with policy makers within and beyond HE, as well as to establish new partnerships and relationships as required. Recent Presidents have effectively developed, in collaboration with Council and other stakeholders, new strategic initiatives for the Society. We are looking for someone with a coherent and realistic ambition for the Society of their own, which is realisable over the four-year term of their Presidency and through working with Council and staff.

The President is also the face of the Society. The RHS delivers a wide range of events both online and in-person – at its UCL premises and elsewhere in the UK. The President is the host/chair of the majority of its events and needs to be a confident chair of academic and public events. The President represents the Society at various external events, conferences and other outward facing contexts. S/he needs to be willing to speak on behalf of the Society and to network in a variety of professional and academic settings, both national and international. The President will join a Society with a recently restructured Office and staff and be committed to the following:

  • advocacy for the discipline and profession;
  • innovation (new activities in line with the Society’s charitable purpose, and activities);
  • expansion (in terms of membership, activities and audiences);
  • equality and opportunity for all practitioners of the discipline/profession;
  • balance, appreciating and sustaining the Society’s socially and intellectually diverse membership;
  • professionalisation, of the Office, communications with members, operations.

Within this broad current framework, and working with Councillors and staff, the role affords considerable scope for the new President to develop their own vision and distinctive strands of activity.

Nominees and nominators for the President role must be current Fellows of the Society.  The successful candidate will likely have some prior experience of a leadership or management position within the RHS or within a historical society or organisation with similar structure and values.

Management responsibilities

Considerable people-management is required for the role, and we are looking for an individual with the tact and diplomacy to manage multiple relationships and (potentially) conflicting demands effectively. The new President will have the confidence to support committed and energetic Councillors and staff within their roles and remits and to champion the respective requirements / contributions of both the Office and Council. They will have the personality and skills to work professionally with both academics and staff and a willingness to delegate to others in the organisation. The President works closely with, and line-manages, two senior members of RHS staff, and with them shares responsibility for the smooth running of the Office.

Personal and professional qualities

  • Capacity to create, maintain and lead a sufficiently representative Council body to ensure Society activities reflect the needs and profile of the profession and membership;
  • Proactivity to create new initiatives, partnerships and opportunities;
  • Tolerance of a wide range of opinions for the sake of the Society;
  • Understanding and generosity to handle enquiries and requests for support from Fellows and Members;
  • Appreciation of the diversity of the profession and membership within and beyond Higher Education;
  • Readiness to engage with the oversight of the day-to-day management of the charity, supporting and enabling the work of the CEO and Academic Director, and chairing the Council in its responsibilities for overseeing the Society’s financial management, audit and compliance with charitable regulation;
  • Patience for line-management responsibilities and resilience for handling any interpersonal conflicts that may arise.

The Presidency requires a considerable time commitment.  It is an active, hands-on role, not an honorary position.  The role is unpaid, but, where feasible and/or necessary, the Society can offer a stipend paid to the incumbent’s employing institution to help free them from institutional commitments.

The current President, who is not part of the selection committee, is happy to talk to interested candidates about the role. To do so, please email: president@royalhistsoc.org.

 

RHS Workshop Grants – 2025 call now open to fund day event on historical projects

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the next call for its RHS Workshop Grants for projects to take place in 2025. This scheme provides funding of £1,000 per Grant to enable historians to undertake activities, broadly defined, to pursue historical research, study and discussion. In this round, the Society will make up to six awards for Workshops to be held in 2025.

Applications are now invited via the Society’s online application portal, before the closing date: 23:59 on Friday 24 January 2025. Applicants / lead organisers of a Workshop must be current Fellows or Members of the Society.

This is the third round of RHS Workshops Grants since the scheme began in 2023; further details of the projects awarded funding in 2024 are listed below.

About the Call

RHS Workshop Grants enable historians to come together to pursue projects of shared interest. Projects are purposefully and broadly defined, and may focus not only on academic research but also on a wider range of activities relating to historical work. These may include but are not limited to:  

  • discussion of a research topic or project by collaborators;  
  • evaluation of historical methodologies, theories or practice; 
  • workshopping and manuscript review of a proposed edited collection; 
  • beginning and testing a research idea, leading to a future project;  
  • piloting work relating to the teaching, research or the communication of history; 
  • planning and writing a funding proposal;  
  • undertaking networking and building of academic communities; 
  • activities that combine, where appropriate, historians from a range of professional and other backgrounds, including higher education, related sectors of the historical professional, and community history groups. 
  • Workshops may be open to an audience or closed to invited attendees according to the organisers’ preference.

The Society is particularly keen to support activities for which alternative sources of funding are very limited, or do not exist. The Society seeks to provide grants to those in greatest need of funding, where options for institutional support are minimal or not available.  

Each Workshop receives £1,000 from the Royal Historical Society to cover attendance and the costs of a day meeting. In this round the Society looks to provide up to six projects with Grant funding.

Workshops will be supported by the Royal Historical Society, with updates on outcomes reported via the RHS blog and social media. Projects leading to publishable work are warmly encouraged to submit content to the Society’s journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, for consideration.

Applicants are welcome to consider hosting Workshops at the Society’s offices at University College London, if desirable.

Eligibility

The Society looks to award up to six Grants to projects in this latest round. Eligible applications will be for projects that: 

  • have applicants / lead organisers who are current Fellows or members of the Society. For more on how to join the Society, please see here;
  • request funds to support travel, venue hire, hospitality and overnight accommodation when required, as well as travel bursaries for public events; grants will not be awarded to support paid work; 
  • may include participants travelling from Europe in line with the Society’s carbon policy; attendance by participants from further afield will not be supported by the grant; 
  • remain in contact with the Society before and after the Workshop and agree to contribute an article on their project to the RHS blog, where appropriate. 

How to apply

If you have an idea for a workshop and would like to submit a proposal, please provide a 750 to 1,000 word statement. This should outline:

  • the academic focus of the Workshop and the topic / activity under consideration
  • the purpose and proposed outcome from the Workshop
  • costings for holding a one-day event
  • the location of the proposed Workshop, and whether this may be the RHS Office at University College London
  • the lead organiser(s) and proposed participants who would be involved in the Workshop
  • the proposed date of the Workshop, to be held in 2025

Proposals should be submitted via the Society’s online application platform by the deadline of 23:59 on Friday 24 January 2025.

Recipients of RHS Workshops Grants, 2024

The following six projects were awarded funding in the second round of Workshops announced in 2024:

  • Arunima Datta (University of North Texas) for ‘(Re)Visioning London through “Black” Dialogues’
  • Helen Glew (University of Westminster) for ‘Pat Thane: Reflections on History, Policy and Action’
  • Elizabeth Goodwin (York St John University) for a ‘Network Building Symposium for Historians in Post 92 Institutions’
  • Claire Kennan (King’s College, London) for ‘A Workshop in Ruins’
  • Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (University of Kent) for ‘Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire’
  • Jamie Wood and Graham Barrett (University of Lincoln) for ‘Present and Precedent in the Church Councils of Late Antique Iberia’

 

Research Funding

Allocation of research funding is central to the Society’s work of supporting historians and historical research.

In the financial year 2023/24, the Society awarded more than £130,000 in funding to historians through open competitions, generously assisted by partner organisations and donors. Details of current open calls for funding applications are provided below.

Funding is available to historians at three career stages. Please follow the links for further information on:

In 2025 the Society is running five additional funding programmes open to historians at all career stages. Please follow the links for more on our annual:

Current calls for research funding

The following programmes currently invite applications before the deadlines:

July to September 2025

  • Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships providing funding of between £500 and £1250 to support innovations in the teaching of history in higher education, with projects to take place in the academic year 2025-26. Applicants must also be members of the Royal Historical Society. Next closing date: Friday 11 July 2025.
  • Funded Book Workshops providing funding of £2000 per workshop to host an in-person day seminar for historians who are currently writing a second or third monograph. Workshops bring together six specialist readers to discuss a book manuscript in detail prior to submission to the publisher. Applicants must also be members of the Royal Historical Society. Next closing date: Friday 11 July 2025.

Applicants for Royal Historical Society funding must be members of the Society, with exceptions for several Postgraduate grants. To find out how to become a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or Postgraduate Member, please see our Join Us page.

Details of current holders of Research Fellowships and recipients of Research Funding are available here.

All enquiries about Research Funding should be sent to the Society’s Membership and Grants Officer at: membership@royalhistsoc.org.

HEADER IMAGE: Bowl with a scholar, anon, c.1575-99, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, public domain.

 

2024 Prothero Lecture, with Peter Frankopan: booking now open

The 2024 RHS Prothero Lecture will reflect ‘On the Challenges and Purposes of Global History’ with Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford. Booking for the lecture, which takes place at 6.30pm BST on Wednesday 3 July in central London and online, is now open for in-person and online attendance. All are welcome.

The Prothero Lecture is one of the high points of the Society’s annual events programme. It is followed by our annual summer party to which all attendees are very welcome. The party is an opportunity to meet fellow historians and members of the Society’s governing Council.

In this year’s Prothero Lecture, Peter Frankopan will ask what is global history; should historians think globally – and is it even possible to do so? How does macro-history fit alongside microhistories and regional and periodic specialisations; and what do these questions mean for the teaching of history at school and university? Professor Frankopan’s lecture will consider problems of traditional periodisation and regionalisation and show how global history can be instructive and helpful from teaching at primary school level to high-level academic research to public history.

About this year’s Prothero Lecturer

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is also Professor of Silk Roads Studies and a Bye-Fellow at King’s College, Cambridge.

His publications includeThe Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Bloomsbury, 2015), The New Silk Roads: The Future and Present of the World (2018) and The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story (2023). Silk Roads was named The Daily Telegraph‘s History Book of the Year 2015 and was lauded as one of the ‘Books of the Decade’ 2010-20 by the Sunday Times. His latest book, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, was named History Book of the Year by The Times in 2023. His books have have been translated into forty languages.

About the RHS Prothero Lecture

First given in 1968, the Prothero Lecture — named after George W. Prothero (President of the Society, 1901-05) — has featured some of the world’s leading historians. Former Prothero Lecturers include Joanna Bourke, Linda Colley, Roy Foster, Olwen Hufton, Sujit Sivasundaram, Brenda E. Stevenson and Keith Thomas.

For more on the Society’s events programme in May, June and July, please see here. Forthcoming events include lectures, training workshops and panels discussions.

 

Precarious Professionals: New Historical Perspectives on Gender & Professional Identity in Modern Britain

 

**PLEASE NOTE: this event has been postponed and will now take place later in the year, date tbc**

 

Book Launch and Panel Discussion

14.00 GMT, Tuesday 22 March 2022, Live online via Zoom

 

 

Published in October 2021, Precarious Professionals is an edited collection of essays which use gender to explore a range of professional careers, from those of pioneering women lawyers and scientists to ballet dancers, secretaries, historians, and social researchers.

The book reveals how professional identities could flourish on the margins of the traditional professions, with far-reaching implications for the study of power, privilege, and expertise in 19th and 20th century Britain.

Precarious Professionals appears in the RHS ‘New Historical Perspectives’ series and is is now available free, Open Access, to read ahead of the event.

 

Contributors to the panel

  • Professor Christina de Bellaigue (University of Oxford)
  • Dr Laura Carter (Université de Paris / LARCA)
  • Professor Leslie Howsam (University of Windsor / Ryerson University)
  • Dr Claire G. Jones (University of Liverpool)
  • Professor Helen McCarthy (University of Cambridge)
  • Professor Susan Pedersen (Columbia University)
  • Dr Laura Quinton (New York University)
  • Professor Emma Griffin (RHS President and University of East Anglia) (chair)

This event brings together seven of the book’s contributors to discuss the relationship between gender and professional identities in historical perspective, and to reflect on researching and writing histories of professional work in precarious times. 

About our panel

Christina de Bellaigue is Associate Professor of History at Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College. She is a social and cultural historian of nineteenth century France and Britain, with research interests in the history of reading and of education, and of childhood and adolescence. Christina’s current project concerns middle class family strategies and social mobility. Her publications include  Home Education in Historical Perspective (2016) and Educating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France, 1800–1867 (2007).

Laura Carter is Lecturer in British History at the Université de Paris, LARCA, CNRS, F-75013 Paris, France. She has published articles on popular history, education, and social change in twentieth-century Britain in the journals Cultural and Social History, History Workshop Journal, and Twentieth Century British History. Her first book, Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979, was published by Oxford University Press in the Past & Present book series in 2021.

Leslie Howsam is Emerita Distinguished University Professor at the University of Windsor (Canada) and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Digital Humanities at Ryerson University. She is editor of the 2015 Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book and author of Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book & Print Culture (Toronto University Press, 2006).    

Claire G. Jones is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests focus on the cultural and social history of science, from the late-eighteenth century through to the early-twentieth, with special emphasis on femininity, masculinity, inclusion and representation. She has published widely in these areas and co-edited the Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science (2022).

Helen McCarthy is Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College. She is a historian of modern Britain and author of three books: The British People and the League of Nations (Manchester University Press, 2011); Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat (Bloomsbury, 2014); and Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Susan Pedersen is Gouverneur Morris Professor of British History at Columbia University, where she teaches British and International History. Her most recent book is The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford, 2015). She is now writing a book about marriage and politics in the Balfour family. She writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

Laura Quinton is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at New York University and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. Her current book project, Ballet Imperial: Dance and the New British Empire, explores the unexpected entanglements of ballet and British politics in the twentieth century. Her writing has appeared in The Historical Journal, Twentieth Century British History, and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.

Emma Griffin is President of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of Modern British History at the University of East Anglia.

 

HEADER IMAGE, clockwise from top left: politician, Mary Agnes Hamilton, at her desk in Carlton House Terrace, c.1948; sociologist Viola Klein, 1965; historian Dame Lillian Penson running her seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, 1957; Marie Stopes in her laboratory, Manchester, c.1904–6; mathematician and engineer, Hertha Ayrton, in her Laboratory; lawyer and political reformer, Eliza Orme, 1889.

 

RHS Lecture and Events: Full Programme for 2022 >

 

The Papers of Admiral George Grey (1809-1891): new Camden Series volume

The latest volume of the Society’s Camden series makes available The Papers of Admiral George Grey. Edited by Michael Taylor, this new volume brings together the memoir, journal, and correspondence of the naval officer George Grey (1809-1891), son of the Whig prime minister Earl Grey.

The volume documents the Grey family’s experience of the Whig ministry of 1830–1834, and George Grey’s own naval career which took him from the Battle of Navarino during the Greek War of Independence, to a decisive survey of the Falkland Islands, and then to the capital cities of South America during their pivotal early decades of independence.

In doing so, Michael’s volume sheds new light on the political, diplomatic, naval, and imperial histories of the early and mid-nineteenth century. To accompany publication, Michael has also written on George Grey and his work to collect the papers for the Society’s blog.

The full text of The Papers of Admiral George Grey is now available Open Access via Cambridge University Press, following a subvention by the Royal Historical Society.

The Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is one of the most prestigious and important collections of primary source material relating to British history, including the British empire and Britons’ influence overseas.

The Series makes important, previously unpublished, texts available to researchers. Each volume is edited by a specialist historian who provides an expert introduction and commentary. The complete Camden Series now comprises over 380 volumes of primary source material, published by Cambridge University Press, ranging from the early medieval to late-twentieth century Britain.

 

In 2025, the Society will publish three new Camden volumes.

Forthcoming titles are: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler, which will appear in August 2025 and A Collector Collected: The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823, edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Aykan and Curtis Leung (November).

 

New Publications from the Royal Historical Society

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the publication of its latest two titles as part of the Camden and New Historical Perspectives book series.

Both titles are published, online and in print, by Cambridge University Press and University of London Press respectively.

 

Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z, edited by Maria Cannon and Laura Tisdall (New Historical Perspectives, published by University of London Press, November 2024).

Adulthood has a history. This collection, edited by Maria Cannon and Laura Tisdall, explores how concepts of adulthood have changed over time in Britain and the United States with reference to eleven case studies. Expectations for adults have altered over time, just as other age-categories such as childhood, adolescence and old age have been shaped by their cultural and social context.

In historicising adulthood, this collection is the first to employ adulthood as a category of historical analysis, arguing that consideration of age is crucial for all scholarship that addresses power and inequality.

Collectively, the authors explore four key ideas: adulthood as both burden and benefit; adulthood as a relational category; collective versus individual definitions of adulthood; and adulthood as a static definition.

Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z is the 20th volume in the Society’s New Historical Perspective series for early career historians within 10 years of completion of a PhD at a UK or Irish university.

All 20 titles are available for free Open Access download from University of London Press, as well as in paperback print. For more on this volume, please see Maria and Laura’s post for the RHS blog.

 

 

The Household Accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville, Lord and Lady Brooke, at Holborn and Warwick, 1640-1649, edited by Stewart Beale, Andrew Hopper and Ann Hughes (RHS Camden Series, November 2024).

Robert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke, was a prominent figure amongst the opposition to Charles I, a religious radical and intellectual who emerged as a successful popular leader in the early months of the English Civil War. This volume publishes the richly detailed household accounts kept for Brooke and his widow, Katherine, on an annual basis between 1640 and 1649.

These texts have scarcely been studied by historians. They are an illuminating source for Brooke’s capacious intellectual, religious, and political networks, and for his mobilisation of support for Parliament in 1642. They also uncover the administration of his estates and households in London, Warwickshire, and the Midlands before and after his premature death.

These accounts are crucial sources for political, economic, and military historians, and equally important for social and cultural historians interested in the history of the family, childhood, and widowhood, as well as consumption and material culture.

The Household Accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville, Lord and Lady Brooke is published online and in print by Cambridge University Press (November 2024). Fellows and members of the Society may purchase print copies of this, and other available Camden titles, for £16 per volume by emailing: administration@royalhistsoc.org.

 

 

Transactions: the Society’s journal

Transactions is the flagship academic journal of the Royal Historical Society. First published in 1872, Transactions has been publishing the highest quality scholarship in History for more than 150 years.

January 2025: Paul Readman, Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London, appointed co-editor of Transactions.

December 2024: this year’s volume of Transactions (Seventh Series, Volume 2) is now available online from Cambridge University Press. Full details of the 2024 volume.

From August 2024: all articles accepted for publication in Transactions will automatically appear Open Access, with no charge to the author, ensuring the widest possible circulation and readership for new work.

What we publish in Transactions

Today’s journal publishes a wide range of research articles and commentaries on historical approaches, practice and debate. In addition to traditional 10-12,000 word research articles, Transactions also welcomes shorter, innovative commentary articles.

In 2023, we introduced the ‘Common Room’ — a section of the journal dedicated to commentaries and think pieces by academic historians and historical practitioners.

The journal welcomes submissions dealing with any geographical area from the early middle ages to the very recent past. The journal’s editor and editorial boards are interested in articles that cover entirely new ground, thematically or methodologically, as well as those engaging critically on established themes in existing literatures.

Who publishes in Transactions

The journal invites articles from authors at every career stage. In line with the Society’s commitment to supporting postgraduate and early career historians, the journal seeks to engage constructively and positively with first-time authors. We also publish, and invite, articles and commentaries from historians working outside Higher Education in related sectors such as heritage.

The journal’s editorial team provides prompt responses and peer review. Articles are published with Cambridge University Press, online via CUP’s FirstView, and in an annual volume.

If you’re currently researching an article or a think piece, please consider Transactions as the journal in which to publish your work.

Submitting your article to Transactions

We warmly welcome submissions of research articles and Common Room commentaries for editorial review. In advance, please consult our guide to Preparing your Article, which provides information on presenting and formatting your article.

In addition, we have a guide to Submitting your Article which explains how to use the journal’s online submission system.

When ready, please submit your completed article for review here >

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: latest volume

 

Transactions articles are published first online and then as an annual print volume. The latest volume of Transactions (Seventh Series, Volume 2) was published in December 2024.

TRHS includes research articles, covering a wide range of chronologies and geographies, alongside ‘Common Room’ articles offering commentaries and debates on historical methodologies, pedagogies, policy debates and roundtable discussions.

Recently published Transactions articles are available on Cambridge First View. New print volumes of the journal are published annually, with a listing of all previous volumes available from the CUP website.

 

 

What authors say about publishing with Transactions

 

Now published by Cambridge University Press, the collection of Transactions from 1872 is available on Cambridge Journals Online and JSTOR (with a five year moving wall).

More on accessing Transactions content, 1872-2023.

 

Co-Editor, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Call for Applications

The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Co-Editor for its academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, published by Cambridge University Press.

The new Co-Editor will work alongside Dr Jan Machielsen (Cardiff University) who has edited the journal since January 2024. The new appointment will take effect from 1 January 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. Following an initial probationary period, the appointment will run for a minimum of two years (to January 2027) with the option to extend for a further two years (January 2029).

Applicants for this role must be Fellows of the Royal Historical Society.

This is an exciting phase for the journal as we extend its scale and scope. The new Co-Editor will support, and work closely with the current Editor, Dr Machielsen, in developing the journal’s scope and scale, and further enhancing its profile and intellectual reputation.

We are looking for a Co-Editor with research expertise that complements that of Dr Machielsen, a historian of early modern Europe, and befits a wide-ranging generalist journal. Applications from those working in the modern period and/or non-European or world history are especially welcome. Given the nature of this role, the capacity for effective collaborative working is another essential requirement.

In addition to experience of academic editorial work, broadly defined, the successful candidate will have genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for the broad, interdisciplinary scope of the journal and creative, imaginative and sustainable ideas for its further development.

Further details of this role, including specifications and how to apply, are available here.

The deadline for applications, via the RHS Applications Portal, is 11:59PM, Friday 22 November 2024.

About the journal

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is the flagship journal of the Society. It has been publishing the highest quality scholarship in history for over 150 years.

Today’s journal, published by Cambridge University Press, offers a wide range of research articles and commentaries on historical approaches, practice and debate. In addition to traditional 10-12,000 word research articles, Transactions also welcomes shorter, innovative commentary articles. In 2023, we introduced the ‘Common Room’ — a section of the journal dedicated to commentaries and think pieces by academic historians and historical practitioners.

All articles are published on CUP’s FirstView and in print. From August 2024, articles accepted for publication in Transactions automatically appear Open Access, with no charge to the author, ensuring the widest possible circulation and readership for new work.

The journal invites articles from authors at every career stage. We also publish, and invite, articles and commentaries from historians working outside Higher Education in related sectors such as heritage.

The journal’s editorial team provides prompt responses and peer review. Articles are published with Cambridge University Press, online via CUP’s FirstView, and in an annual print volume. The Editors are supported in their work by the journal’s UK Editorial and International Advisory boards. Further support is provided by the Office of the Royal Historical Society and the journal’s publisher, Cambridge University Press.

 

New Historical Perspectives passes 100,000 book downloads

The Royal Historical Society’s book series, New Historical Perspectives, publishes monographs and edited collections by early career historians within 10 years of a PhD.

Launched in late 2019, 18 titles are now available or forthcoming, with University of London Press. Earlier this month, the series reached its 100,000 book download.

All books in the series are available in paperback print and free Open Access, funded by NHP’s partners: the Society, the Institute of Historical Research and University of London Press. Contracted authors receive mentoring when writing their books and are offered an author workshop, with subject specialists, prior to submission of the final manuscript.

Recent titles in the series include Matthew Gerth’s Anti-Communism in Britain During the Early Cold War, A Very British Witch Hunt, and Hannah Parker and Josh Doble’s edited collection, Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750–2020.

 

Coming soon is Jon Winder’s monograph, Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010. Designed for Play is an original and accessible contribution to modern British history, urban and environmental history, and histories and geographies of childhood.