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- ISSN: 0080-4401 (Print), 1474-0648 (Online)
- Editors: Dr Jan Machielsen Cardiff University, UK, and Professor Paul Readman King's College London, UK
- Editorial board
The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is the flagship journal of the Royal Historical Society, the UK's leading membership organisation for professional historians of all kinds. Founded in 1872, Transactions has been publishing the highest quality scholarship for 150 years. Today, this open access journal welcomes submissions dealing with any geographical area from the early middle ages to the very recent past. The Editors are also interested in content, in a range of formats, that covers entirely new ground, thematically or methodologically, as well as articles engaging critically with established themes in existing literatures. For more on Transactions, please see the Royal Historical Society website.
Latest Content
Ahead of this year’s November publication, the editors are pleased to offer a sneak preview of the issue’s first eight articles, presented in order of appearance.
RHS Publications | Historical Transactions
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Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940
- 30 October 2025,
- In this post, Gareth Roddy introduces his new book — 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940' — which is published in...
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‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England
- 03 September 2025,
- In this post, Jonathan Willis introduces his new article, ‘“your poore distressed suppliant”: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England’, recently...
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Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales
- 28 August 2025,
- The building of reservoirs in England and Wales was key to urban growth across the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In this post, Andrew McTominey...
Royal Historical Society blog
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Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940
- 30 October 2025,
- In this post, Gareth Roddy introduces his new book — 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940' — which is published in...
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The value and provision of history and the humanities: it’s time for a political response
- 02 October 2025,
- This week the government's Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, announced the return of maintenance grants for students in greatest need. While we welcome...
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Generative AI, History and Historians, a reading guide
- 02 October 2025,
- There are few bigger, and more pressing, topics today than the current and future impact of Generative AI. Nowhere is this more evident than in Higher Education....
History blog
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Empire in the Soil: Superphosphate and the British and French Imperial Manufacture, 1914-1937
- 27 October 2025,
- The history of European imperial agriculture has often been told through the lens of technological innovation, such as the development of the agricultural automotive...
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The Franco-German Brigade: A Mirror of Integration—and Its Limits
- 30 September 2025,
- When the Franco-German Brigade (FGB) was established in 1989, it was hailed as a unique experiment in postwar Europe. Never before had soldiers from two former...
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Political Disinformation on the Eve of Reform
- 26 September 2025,
- The ‘Vote Leave’ or ‘Brexit’ bus which toured the UK in 2016 plastered with the blunt assertion ‘We send the EU £350 million a week’ is an infamous recent example...