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- Editors: Dr Jan Machielsen Cardiff University, UK, and Professor Paul Readman King's College London, UK
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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
The following are the eight most recently published research and comment articles, which are also available on FirstView.
RHS Publications | Historical Transactions
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Lord Palmerston and Tiverton: Politics, Celebrity and Memory in Victorian Britain
- 11 February 2026,
- In this post, Frederick Hyde introduces his new article, 'Lord Palmerston and Tiverton: Politics, Celebrity and Memory in Victorian Britain', published this...
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A Collector Collected: the Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823
- 18 November 2025,
- In this post Mark Philp, Aysuda Aykan and Curtis Leung introduce their new volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series, 'A Collector Collected: The...
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Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society
- 06 November 2025,
- In this post, Rachael Harkes introduces her new book — 'Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow' — which is published in the...
Royal Historical Society blog
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New resources for teaching slavery: connecting academic history and the classroom
- 17 February 2026,
- In this post we hear from historians involved in the creation of two new resources, launched in late 2025, to support the teaching of slavery in schools. In...
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Lord Palmerston and Tiverton: Politics, Celebrity and Memory in Victorian Britain
- 11 February 2026,
- In this post, Frederick Hyde introduces his new article, 'Lord Palmerston and Tiverton: Politics, Celebrity and Memory in Victorian Britain', published this...
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With December’s restart, what next for REF2029 and for History?
- 02 February 2026,
- On 10 December 2025, Research England announced the ‘unpausing’ of REF2029 and, with it, completion of a three-month review of the terms and principles of the...
History blog
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Far-Right Extremism in Post-1945 Europe
- 13 February 2026,
- As far-right extremism surges across Europe, the editors of Contemporary European History have been searching through the journal’s archives to see what we...
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Framing Corruption: The Discourse in Operation Lava Jato and the Judicial Activism in Brazil
- 04 February 2026,
- For years, Operation Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash) was the “spectacle” of Latin American politics. From 2014 to 2021, the world watched as a group...
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From Mycenaean Frescoes to Hellenistic Sculpture: Women’s Research in the Early Years of the ABSA
- 06 January 2026,
- The first volume of the Annual of the British School at Athens was published in 1895, almost a decade after the foundation of the School in 1886.…