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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
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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
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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‘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...
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The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)
- 05 August 2025
- Helen Newsome-Chandler introduces her new volume in the Society’s Camden Series, 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)', published...
Royal Historical Society blog
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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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Peter J. Marshall and the Royal Historical Society: an appreciation
- 02 September 2025,
- The Society was very sorry to learn of the death, in July, of the historian Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025). Peter’s association with the Royal Historical Society...
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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...
History blog
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Revising An Economic History of Europe for a Rapidly Changing World
- 05 August 2025,
- How we updated the classic textbook An Economic History of Europe to reflect changes both in the world and in how we teach and learn economic history.
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A conversation with the historian of science Lorraine Daston
- 24 July 2025,
- Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science whose work spans a broad range of topics in the early modern and modern history of science.…
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Cuerpo, mestizaje y colonialidad: La alteridad de las mujeres trans en las muestras fotográficas Padre Patria y Vírgenes de la Puerta/
- 23 July 2025,
- The photographic series “Padre Patria” (2014) and “Vírgenes de la Puerta” (2014), by Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Andrew Mroczek, offer a visual narrative of...