Ahead of the 40-year anniversary of Continuity and Change, the journal’s editors share a special call for papers.
About the journal: Continuity and Change aims to define a field of historical sociology concerned with long-term continuities and discontinuities in the structures of past societies. Emphasis is upon studies whose agenda or methodology combines elements from traditional fields such as history, sociology, law, demography, economics or anthropology, or ranges freely between them. There is a strong commitment to comparative studies over a broad range of cultures and time spans.
Call for Papers
To celebrate the 40-year anniversary since the founding of the journal Continuity and Change (C&C), we are circulating a new call for papers. Providing a ‘state of the field’ overview, these articles are intended to highlight how social and economic history has developed in recent decades as well as proposing potential future directions. Papers can be on traditional topics, such as the household economy, or on still emerging areas of research, such as environmental history. Although developments in some of these fields might be geographically or chronologically specific, preference will be given to articles that range widely, tackling the chosen theme across periods and/or countries. We especially encourage proposals from geographies less represented in C&C over the last decade, such as Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
How to Submit
Articles will be shorter than our usual length – no more than 5,000 words (notes not included) – and will be subject to peer review. We are seeking initial expressions of interest from colleagues who wish to author one of these pieces, with a short overview of the potential scope of the proposed article (such as title and 200-word summary) to be sent to the Editors by 20 December 2025. We will then invite selected papers for full submission by 1 April 2026 for potential publication later that year.
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