The Journal of British Studies
Founded in 1961, the Journal of British Studies is the official publication of the North American Conference on British Studies. All members of NACBS automatically receive a subscription to the quarterly Journal of British Studies, which is published by Cambridge University Press. Many of its articles are now open access.
The Journal of British Studies publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles by both established and emerging scholars from around the world that explore diverse perspectives on the past and that place the long history of Britain in a range of global contexts. The journal provides a forum for innovative approaches to the study of Britain and its empire and welcomes research that is comparative, transnational, and global in scope. The journal also publishes book reviews, highlighting new multidisciplinary work in British Studies for its international readership.
Forum: 1776: Views from the British World
Timed to coincide with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the United States of America, this series of articles complicates traditional narratives of this transformative event by situating it within a larger British world context.
Latest Articles
"Captured at Sea": Maritime Conflict and the Circulation of Art in Early Modern Britain
Rebecca Earle
June 15, 2026
The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain
Saima Nasar
June 11, 2026
Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England
Hazley, Crangle, Dawson, Harte, and Roulston
April 30, 2026
The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780–1850
Rosemary Helen Sweet
June 11, 2026
Imperium in Imperio: The Peacetime Commander in Chief as a Linchpin of Colonial Reform
Rachel Banke
May 11, 2026
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JBS Series
One British Archive
This series explores little-known archives of interest to scholars of British Studies. Essays might feature a rare archive, describe a repository not usually understood as an archive for scholars of British Studies, or highlight a set of sources not often considered an archive at all. Authors present the creative ways in which sources are being used, archived, and interpreted by diverse scholars in the twenty-first century. We hope that this series will significantly expand what counts as “British” and what counts as an “archive” at a moment when the field should be adapting and expanding.
Debating the Field
In this series, the JBS highlights critical debates in the field. These essays are intended to serve as gateways to ongoing and urgent conversations within the discipline and to foreground the relevance of British Studies scholarship to pressing global concerns.
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Unfinished Business
In this series, the journal’s editors invite scholars to revisit their earlier work in light of new scholarship and from a fresh perspective. The exercise reminds us that history writing is a process that, because it serves the needs of the present, can never be complete. We are always rethinking, revising, reassessing what we think we can know about the past and what these attempts to understand and to make meaning tell us about our current predicament. Our profession values the ongoing conversation and debate that constitutes scholarship. We all have unfinished business to work through. We thank the scholars in this series for being brave enough to do this publicly.
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Tammy Proctor
Editor, Journal of British Studies
Utah State University
Carol Herringer
Book Review Editor, Journal of British Studies
Georgia Southern University
Nadja Durbach
Editor, Journal of British Studies
University of Utah
Kenneth Shonk
Book Review Editor, Journal of British Studies
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Chelsea Reutcke
Assistant Editor, Journal of British Studies
Susannah Ottaway
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