While concentrating on the English-speaking world and Europe, the journal is not limited in geographical coverage. Subject areas include: agricultural history; historical ecology; folklore; popular culture and religion; rural literature; landscape history, archaeology and material culture; vernacular architecture; ethnography, anthropology and rural sociology; the study of women in rural societies; relationships between the urban and the rural; and the politics of rural societies.
The journal accommodates varying disciplinary reference systems, and publishes book reviews and review articles.
Please see the Preparing your materials and Submitting your materials pages for further guidelines.
ARTICLE TYPES
Rural History accepts the following types of article:
- Research Article*
- Classics in Rural History Revisited*
- Where Next in Rural History?*
* If publishing Gold Open Access, all or part of the publication costs for these article types may be covered by one of the agreements Cambridge University Press has made to support open access.