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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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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....
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Five things we can learn about current English ‘flag wars’ from Germany in the 1920s and 1930s
- 16 September 2025,
- History Matters: This is the first in a new occasional series of articles on the RHS blog which show how history can help us to understand our present times....
History blog
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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...
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The IVF Pioneers: Who Really Wrote Their Autobiography?
- 26 September 2025,
- This blog post is about the author’s recent paper in Medical History, The ghostwriter and the test-tube baby: a medical breakthrough story For 45 years A Matter of Life has provided the standard account of the science and medicine behind the sensational birth of the first ‘test-tube baby’.…...