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Lucinda Cole's latest book The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities is now available from Palgrave Macmillan! 

Mikki Brock's Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and covenanting in a seventeenth-century Scottish town has been shortlisted for Scotland's research book of the year! 

Matthew Mason's book Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World was recently published by University of Virginia Press.

Charmian Mansell's book Female Servants in Early Modern England was recently awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485 from the American Historical Association.

Robert Yee's book The City's Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance, 1914-1939 was recently published by Cambridge University Press. 

British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Melissa Ganz, is now available from Cambridge University Press. The volume shows how legal developments of the period shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing while shedding light on legal and ethical questions that remain of concern to this day.

Daniel Waqar (@daniel_waqar) was named a 2025 Emerging Scholar by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, which supports the final year of writing a dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence. Currently a Ph.D candidate in History at Tufts University, Waqar's research examines British colonial-era unlawful assembly laws in colonial and postcolonial South Asia, and their continued use by governments around the world today. 

Salvatore Cipriano published his book The University of Scotland, Ireland, and New England: Contested Seminaries in December 2024 with Boydell Press. 

Antoinette Burton recently wrote an op-ed, "History is the Front Line in the Struggle for Democracy," for Common Dreams

David Harris Sacks recently published an essay entitled “The Religious Beliefs of Richard, Oliver and Edmond Hakluyt: The Word of the Cross,” in the Journal of the Hakluyt Society.

Sascha Auerbach recently published The Overseer State: Slavery, Indenture, and Governance in the British Empire, 1812-1916, in Cambridge University Press's "Critical Perspectives on Empire" Series.

Chana Revell Kotzin recently published “My Brother’s Keeper? Church of England responses to Jewish Refugees from Europe, 1933-1939,” in Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1810s-1940s.