Following the ground-breaking Royal Historical Society report on Race, Ethnicity & Equality, one of the Report’s co-authors, Jonathan Saha, responds to criticism and calls for change.
The Practice of History
The crowd-funded book: an eighteenth-century revival
Norma Clarke explores how contemporary models of crowd-funding – allowing authors to by-pass conventional publishers to fund, print and disseminate their books – echo eighteenth-century practices of publishing by subscription, used by Alexander Pope, bluestockings, and ‘scandalous’ women alike
Spaces of #womenhistorians
A year on from their innovative ‘Women Historians’ exhibition at the Institute of Historical Research, Laura Carter and Alana Carter look at how we can recover and generate spaces of #womenhistorians
‘I was a few years back a slave on your property’: a letter from Mary Williamson to her former owner
Thus begins a letter from a Jamaican formerly enslaved woman, Mary Williamson, written to her former owner in 1809…
Local history: a view from the bottom
Local history is a powerful tool that contributes to place making and construction of identity.
Journal ranking for History: necessary and not even evil
We should develop our own ranking of History journals to provide a separate, authoritative standard for judging journal quality in History and to include the full range of History journals, rather than depending on the vagaries of selection and classification by commercial rankers.
Journal ‘Quality’ Rankings harm the Discipline of History
Lists of ‘quality’ rankings for history publications are a threat to academic freedom, to innovative research, and to new fields of scholarship.
Self-publish and be Damned: A call for Radical Publishing Alternatives
Lesley Hulonce advocates a revolution in academic publishing, including radical alternatives like self publishing.
