Our Journal

Editor-in-Chief: John C. Mitcham

Britain and the World, published bi-annually by Edinburgh University Press on behalf of our organization, invites research articles, review essays, and book reviews from historians of all ranks on the ways in which Britain has interacted with other societies since the sixteenth century. This focus on Britain’s global history is unique amongst all journals concerned with British history.

Each issue of Britain and the World contains research articles, book reviews, and our featured "Witness to History" section, where we focus on the testimonies of people who were first-hand witnesses to Britain’s global interactions. The Journal occassionally hosts a round-table discussion on important topics dealing with Britain's interactions with the world.

For Potential Authors

We invite scholars at all ranks to submit their articles, book reviews, or ideas for our "Witness to History" section. All submissions are subject to our rigourous double-blind peer review process.

Journal Board

  • John C. Mitcham

    Editor-in-Chief

    Dr. John C. Mitcham is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Duquesne University. His first book, Race and Imperial Defence in the British World, 1870-1914 was published in 2016 and was a finalist for the Templer Medal. He is currently finishing a new book on settler colonialism, white supremacy, and the origins of the Commonwealth.

  • Martin Farr

    General Editor

    Dr Martin Farr is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Newcastle University, UK. His most recent publications concern Parliament in the 1920s, popular culture in the 1960s, tourism in the 1970s, and the Labour Party in the 1980s, and he will publish in 2020 on the 1970 general election, the death of Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama and David Cameron, and Donald Trump and Theresa May and Boris Johnson.

  • Brandon Marsh

    Managing Editor

    Associate Professor of History at Bridgewater College in Virginia. Professor Marsh specializes in British Imperialism in the Indian Subcontinent and the Indian Ocean Basin.

  • Arunima Datta

    Associate Editor

    Dr. Arunima Datta is an Assistant Professor of South and Southeast Asian history at Idaho State University. Her book “Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya” explores issues of gender and migration. It was awarded the NWSA Whaley Book Award (2021) and the WAWH Chaudhuri Prize (2022).

  • Xavier Guégan

    Book Reviews Editor

    Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at University of Winchester (UK). General research interests are in the history of British and French imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a specific focus on British India and French Algeria; European countries' 'race' to govern the world in modern history and the construction of colonial cultures.

  • Michael Kandiah

    Witness to History Editor

    Director of the ICBH Witness Seminar Programme at King's College, London, which seeks to capture oral testimony of British politicians, diplomats, civil servants and other key individuals involved in significant events in recent British history.

  • Linda Colley

    Chair of Advisory Board

    Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. An expert on Britain since 1700. She favors cross-disciplinary history, and in both her writing and teaching examines Britain’s past in broader European, imperial, and global contexts.