Royal Historical Society
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Royal Historical Society
Studies in History Series
The Royal Historical Society's series Studies in History, founded by Sir Geoffrey Elton in 1975 and re-launched in 1995, has established itself as one of the leading outlets for specialist historical monographs. They are almost always based on doctoral dissertations that have been extensively developed and extended so that the wider significance of their findings are brought out, while at the same time they are leaner and fitter so as to come within a rigorous word limit of 90,000 words. The series takes a deliberately inclusive approach, covering all periods from early medieval to the recent history, and while most of the titles have been on British and Continental European History, submissions relating to any part of the world are welcomed. The series also seeks to embrace all approaches to historical research, requiring only that work should be of the highest quality. In conjunction with the publishers, Boydell & Brewer, the series maintains the very highest standard of publication. Work submitted is read by an expert appointed by the Board. Of particular importance is the close guidance and specialist advice given to authors by the relevant member of the editorial board and by the series' Executive Editor, Mrs Christine Linehan, who has held that position since the inception of the series and who has helped over 150 authors, many now very senior members of the profession, to take pride in their first books. All this, together with the work of the publishers, ensures the highest quality of both scholarship and presentation.
Studies in History Editorial Board
Professor John Morrill, University of Cambridge (Convenor) - early modern British and Irish history
Dr Jon Lawrence, University of Cambridge - modern British history
Dr Hannah Barker, University of Manchester - eighteenth and nineteenth-century British history
Professor Arthur Burns, King's College London (Literary Director, Royal Historical Society) - modern British history
Professor Nigel Goose, University of Hertfordshire - economic and social history
Dr Rachel Hammersley, University of Newcastle - seventeenth to nineteenth-century European history (including British history)
Professor Colin Kidd, University of Glasgow - intellectual history
Professor Daniel Power, Swansea University - medieval British and European history
Dr Bernhard Rieger, University College London - nineteenth to twentieth century European history (including British history)
Submission of proposals
The Editorial Board is always willing to advise potential series authors on the submission of proposals. Normally material to be submitted for a proposal would comprise a copy of the author's doctoral dissertation (where this is relevant), a full outline of proposed revisions, and ideally two sample revised chapters; note that the established length for books in the series is no greater than 90,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. Advice from at least one and usually two experts in the field will then be taken in the usual way.
All proposals are submitted to formal meetings of the Editorial Board, which take place at regular intervals throughout the year. Books are normally published within a year of the delivery of the final manuscript to the publisher. Currently seven volumes per year are published.
In the first instance typescripts should be sent to the Executive Secretary at the Royal Historical Society. The Society will not consider any work which is simultaneously being considered by another publisher, in the UK or elsewhere; not does it undertake co-publishing.
Forthcoming Volumes in 2009-2010
Carole Hill, Women and Religion in Late Medieval Norwich
Paul Mulvey, The Political Life of Josiah C Wedgwood: Land, Liberty and Empire, 1872-1943
Jonathan Jarrett, Social Relations and Political Control in Frontier Catalonia before 1000
Forthcoming volumes in 2010-2011
Anna Groundwater, The Middle March of the Scottish Borders, 1573 to 1625
Mark Nixon, Samuel Rawson Gardiner and the Idea of History
Matthew Shaw, Time and the French Revolution: the Republican Calendar, 1789 - Year XI
Studies in History First Series volumes
Studies in History Second Series volumes
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