Announcing a series of blog posts to help academic authors navigate the publishing process.

Brianna Robertson-Kirkland demonstrates the fashionable singing style in 1780s Edinburgh.

7 April 2026 In this post, I explain why you should be claiming your secondary rights payments by joining the ALCS and PLR schemes.

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The History of Parliament is excited to announce a new 8-week internship position for postgraduate-level researchers.

More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 22nd/23rd August 2026 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of An…

We are excited to announce the publication of a new collection of essays by WSG members, Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange, 1550–1850, edited by Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland and Louise Duc…

Our final in-person seminar is taking place on Saturday 7 February at the Foundling Museum. Esther Villegas de la Torre: Seventeenth-century women scholars: an interdisciplinary, comparative a…

The Tom Fairley Award is presented annually to an exceptional editor who played an important role in the success of a project. Learn more...

12 January 2026 My editorial year: the numbers, subject areas, services provided, and a reflection on overall trends in 2025.

Reading against the grain: sex workers lives in a government archive Vicky Iglikowski-Broad Historically, sex workers lives have been medicalised, criminalised and moralised, and this is reflected …