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.
New Transactions articles are published continuously online, on the journal’s FirstView pages. All articles accepted for publication in Transactions appear Open Access, with no charge to the author, ensuring the widest possible circulation and readership for new work.
New Transactions volumes are published once a year, in December, in print and online editions. The latest volume of Transactions (Seventh Series, Volume 3) is available online from Cambridge University Press.
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 co-editors and editorial board are interested in articles that cover entirely new ground, thematically or methodologically, as well as those engaging critically on established themes in existing literatures.
To submit a research article or commentary piece for review, please use the journal’s ScholarOne submissions portal. Potential authors with an enquiry may contact the journal’s co-editors in advance of a submission: [email protected].
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, Transactions engages 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, archives and public history and — of course — as independent researchers.
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 3) was published in December 2025.
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.
Selected articles recently published in Transactions (August 2026)
- ‘On Detail in Historical Writing’, by Joe Moran (July 2026)
- ‘Men, Emotions and the Sickbed in a Sorcery Trial from Seventeenth-Century Germany’, by Alison Rowlands (July 2026)
- ‘The ‘Refugee World’: A Twentieth-Century Retrospective’, by Peter Gatrell (May 2026)
- ‘Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources’, by Ruth Ahnert, Katherine McDonough and Daniel C. S. Wilson (February 2026)
- ‘Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West’, by Mark Stoyle (February 2026)
- ‘Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment’, by Quinn Slobodian, Priya Lal, Gary Gerstle and Tehila Sasson (January 2026)
- ‘The Historian in the Age of AI’, by Chris Campbell (December 2025)
A full listing of content published since the last print volume (December 2025) is available on FirstView.
What authors say about publishing with Transactions
Transactions, 1872-2025: accessing earlier content
Transactions was first published in 1872 and is today one of the UK’s longest published academic journals for historians.
- The full collection of Transactions articles is available via Cambridge University Press, 1872-2025 (requires an institutional login, aside from volumes published from 2024 which are fully Open Access)
- You can also read Transactions via JSTOR which offers free access to articles published up to and including the past 5 years’ worth of content.
More on accessing Transactions content, 1872-2025.