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JICH will now award two annual prizes: The Stockwell-Burroughs Prize for Best Article; & the Murphy-Howe Prize for Best Postgrad Article. Winners will be announced each Feb & receive £200 in book vouchers from @tandfonline. Winning articles will become free access for 12 months.

Just published and #OpenAccess, check out 'Decolonisation and Environmentalism: Bringing the Winds of Change to Global Environmental History' by Brett M. Bennett: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

New book review published advance access. Shubham Pathak and Vinita Chandra review 'Empire and Leprosy in Colonial Bengal' by Apalak Das (Routledge India, 2025). @RoutledgeHist @routledgebooks doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, see 'White Australia’s Student Exception: Asians and the Selective Logic of Immigration Restriction' by Tandee Wang: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

New book review published advance access. Felipe Souza Melo reviews 'Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500-2000', edited by Carlos Marichal & David Pretel (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024): doi.org/10.1080/030865…

New book review published advance access. Ryan Hall reviews 'Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States' by Emilie Connolly (Princeton University Press, 2025): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New book review published advance access. Matthew L. McDowell reviews "The Global Spread of Football from the 1860s to the 1880s" by Thomas Adam (Anthem Press, 2025) @AnthemPress doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, see the article 'Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments: The British Occupation of Java 1811–1815' by Gareth Knapman: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

See Benjamin T. Jones' review of the book 'Looking from the North: Australian History from the Top Down' by Henry Reynolds, NewSouth, 2025: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Check out the book review by John L. Hennessey of 'Neutrality’s Empire: Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age' by Per Högselius, David Nilsson and Hanna Vikström, Berghahn Books, 2026: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, see the article 'Great Historical Document or Just Propaganda? The Atlantic Charter and Global Africa in the Era of World War II' by Michael O. West: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Check out Joshua R. Goodman's review of the book 'Misfire: British Empire Special Forces and Defeat in Malaya in World War II' by Brian P. Farrell, University Press of Kansas, 2025: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Recently published! See the article 'Speaking of the Unspeakable: The Debate on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in Colonial Bengal, India' by Nilanjana Ray: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Check out the latest article 'Military Justice in the Field: Law, Order and Violence in the Prosecutors’ Archives of Belgian Colonial Troops at ‘War’' by Reinout Vander Hulst: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

5k views/downloads on my EOKA essay in less than 10 months. Are people ready to understand the nature of EOKA? @JICHist ://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2025.2493311

See the recent article 'Saving as a ‘Civilising’ Measure in the British Empire: The Case of the Jamaican Trustee Savings Banks, 1834–1870' by Karl Watts: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

See Mona Rudolph & Nina Kleinöder's introduction to the upcoming special issue 'Business and Labour in German Colonialism', currently #FreeAccess : doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Have a read of the recent article 'No Trace: ASIO and the End of the White Australia Policy' by Sean Brawley: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Check out the recent article 'Laboratory of Empire: Calcutta, Opium, and the Wartime Invention of Regulation' by Benjamin R. Siegel: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Fresh and #OpenAccess, check out 'Intra-Caribbean Diplomacy and Imperial Negotiation; Edward Trelawny, the Marquis de Larnage, and Anglo-French relations in the West Indies, 1720–1748' by Christos Giannatos: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Have a read of Patrick Cacicedo's review of the book 'Imperial Crime and Punishment: Approaches from Historical Criminology', by Emma D. Watkins & Eleanor Bland (eds.) (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025): doi.org/10.1080/030865…