September-October 2010


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The Department of History at The UWI, St Augustine is soliciting contributions for the second issue of its Online Journal, History in Action.

The annual journal is available via the UWI institutional repository (UWISpace) and should benefit scholars, students, libraries and members of the public interested in history.

The Journal’s Editorial Committee invites contributions on documentary history, archaeology, personal narratives (based on oral interviews), ethnography, historical geography, historical linguistics and cultural landscapes.

Contributors are encouraged to submit multimedia data in support of their respective papers, should the need arise. To expedite the process of publication, this journal is not being peer-reviewed. However, all submissions will be assessed by the Editorial Committee to determine their suitability for publication. The Editor reserves the right to edit submissions.

Contributors, especially students, are urged to guard against plagiarism and copyright violations. Full paper submissions must be no more than 2,500 words and must each have a bibliography and endnotes.

Paper submissions must adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

Abstracts of no more than 150 words should be submitted to the Editor, Dr Basil Reid, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of History, UWI, St. Augustine no later than October 30, 2010. Once the abstracts are approved, full paper submissions should be made no later than December 31, 2010. Dr Reid’s e-mail contacts are Basil.Reid@sta.uwi.edu and breidster@gmail.com.

The members of the Editorial Committee are:

  • Dr Basil Reid (Editor)
  • Dr Claudius Fergus
  • Professor Bridget Brereton
  • Dr Michael Toussaint and
  • Mr Frank Soodeen (UWI Main Library’s Representative)