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welcome to the online home of the Past & Present Society

welcome to the online home of the Past & Present Society

About P&P

Founded in 1952, the Past and Present Society runs a journal, Past and Present, has its own book series, sponsors conferences, and appoints up to four postdoctoral fellows every year.

Past and Present is widely acknowledged to be the liveliest and most stimulating historical journal in the English-speaking world. The journal’s contents reflect the Society’s

belief that history should be accessible and interesting to a wide range of readers, and its articles are intended to appeal to non-specialists as well as to experts. Since its inception in 1952, the mark of a P&P article was that it should be a properly researched study which showed an awareness of the wider implications of that research. Its remit is worldwide, and across all time periods.

Blog

CFP: "How Sciences End"

By Josh Allen - November 29, 2024 (0 comments)

recevied from Dr. Michelle Aroney (Magdalen College, Oxford) Dates: 11–13 July 2025 Location: University of Oxford, UK Submission deadline: 31 January 2025 Conference Theme and Goals Historians have studied extensively…

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CFP: Oaths and Oath-taking in Historical Perspective, Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1700 to the present

By Josh Allen - November 20, 2024 (0 comments)

Received from Dr. Henry Miller (Northumbria) Event Overview This one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held on Friday 7 March 2025 at Northumbria University in Newcastle seeks to bring together early…

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2024's Supplement "Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World" Published

By Josh Allen - November 8, 2024 (0 comments)

by the Past & Present editorial team Edited by Prof. Renaud Morieux (Pembroke, University of Cambridge) and Jeppe Mulich (City, University of London) 2024’s Past & Present supplement “Ordering the…

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