Cultural and Social History

Cultural and Social History was launched in 2004 as the journal of the Social History Society. Its title is designed to reflect recent shifts in the discipline of history in the wake of the cultural turn. It seeks to move the discipline beyond the limits of both cultural and social history as traditionally approached by emphasising the ways in which the ‘social’ and the ‘cultural’ are mutually informing and constitutive in the belief that approaching society and culture as extricably linked enables a fuller understanding of both. An appreciation of the constellation of cultural forces that confer meaning on the lives of historical actors is necessary if we are more fully to understand the social experience of individuals and groups in the past. Similarly, ‘culture’ is understood not as an entity distinct from ‘society’, but as a product of social practice, and therefore at the heart of society itself.

The journal seeks to make connections across the broad territory of cultural and social history and across chronological and geographical boundaries. It also aims to make links across the neighbouring sub-disciplines of History (economic, social, cultural and political) and between History and closely related disciplines which concern themselves with the history of culture (primarily Literature, History of Art, Anthropology, Cultural/Media Studies) and between History and the Social Sciences. The journal is also intended as a forum for methodological debate of broad relevance to historians of any field in which the future directions of the discipline can be discussed and, it is hoped, initiated.

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Editors
Padma Anagol, Cardiff University, UK
Sean O'Connell, Queen’s University, Belfast
David Hopkin, Hertford College, University of Oxford, UK

Book Reviews
Louise Jackson, University of Edinburgh, UK

Editorial Board
Jocelyn Alexander, Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK
John Arnold, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Kelly Boyd, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK
Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Anthony McElligott, University of Limerick, Ireland
Hermann Roodenburg, Meertens Instituut, Netherlands
Judith Rowbotham, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Alexandra Shepard, University of Glasgow, UK
Pat Thane, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK
Chris Waters, Williams College, USA

Advisory Board
Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University, IsraelClare Anderson, University of Leicester, UK
Clare Anderson, University of Warwick, UK
Guy Beiner, Ben Gurion University of the Negrev, Israel
Judith Bennett, University of Southern California, USA
John Brewer, California Institute of Technology, USA
Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Franz Brueggemeier, Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK
Craig Clunas, University of Oxford, UK
Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University, USA
James W. Cook, University of Michigan, USA
Prasenjit Duara, University of Chicago, USA
Laura Lee Downs, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, France
Margot Finn, University of Warwick, UK
Irene Guenther, Marquette University, USA
Cynthia Herrup, University of Southern California, USA
Carla Hesse, University of Southern Berkeley, USA
Eugene Irschick, University of Berkeley, USA
Orvar Löfgren, Lund University, Sweden
Sarah Knott, Indiana University, USA
Iain McCalman, Australian National University, Australia
Timothy Mitchell, New York University
Frank Mort, University of Manchester, UK
Miri Rubin, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK
Steve Smith, University of Essex, UK
Megan Vaughan, King's College, University of Cambridge, UK
Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Andy Wood, University of East Anglia, UK