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- Have your say in The Common Room; our new regular feature containing shorter articles on historiographies, methodologies, and new scholarship.

- Transactions is now seeking proposals for Special Sections. Please click here for more information.

-  We’re delighted to announce that all articles accepted for publication in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society from 21 August 2024 will be ‘open access’; published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online (see the journal’s Open Access Options page for available licence options). We have an OA option for every author: the costs of open access publication will be covered through agreements between the publisher and the author’s institution, payment of APCs from grant or other funds, or else waived entirely, ensuring every author can publish and enjoy the benefits of OA.  

Please see the journal's Open Access Options page for instructions on how to request an APC waiver.

See this FAQ for more information. 

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
  • ISSN: 0080-4401 (Print), 1474-0648 (Online)
  • Editor: Dr Jan Machielsen Cardiff University, 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.

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