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British Scholar is a journal of British history. The editors invite research articles, review essays, and book reviews from historians of all ages and ranks, including graduate students, on the ways in which Britain has interacted with other societies since 1688. The journal is sponsored by the British Scholar Society and the British Studies program at the University of Texas. 

The journal will accept submissions that cover any topic in British history on the ways in which Britain has interacted with other societies since 1688. Submissions for publication should be made electronically to the Editor, Gregory Barton, at editor@britishscholar.org. Submissions should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words, including citations, for research articles. There is no stipulated limit for review essays. The British Scholar Journal will be launched in September 2008. Submissions for publication in the British Scholar Journal are currently being accepted.  

Books:

Single Author: Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), p. 327.

Two Authors: Christopher Bayly, and Tim Harper, Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 25-38.

Three or More Authors: Please use “et al.” after listing the names of the first two authors.

Edition other than the First: Martin J. Wiener, English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980, 2d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 14-18.

Work in an Anthology: Vernon Bogdanor, “Constitutional Reform,” in The Blair Effect: The Blair Government 1997-2001, ed. Anthony Seldon (London: Little, Brown and Company, 2001), p. 145.

Articles:

Article in a Journal: Jennifer Pitts, “Legislator of the World?: A Rereading of Bentham and Colonies,” Political Theory, 31:2 (2003): 201-2.

Article in a Newspaper: Simon Heffer, “These are no swivel-eyed xenophobes,” The Guardian, 18 June 2004.

For primary sources provide as much information as possible. Please see the examples below:

Lister’s minute of 13 March 1884, FO 84/1683.

Memorandum by Macmillan, Top Secret, 7 August 1956, EC (56) 8, CAB 134/1217.

Thompson to Peck, Secret and Guard, 22 April 1964, FO 371/175496.