The Journal for the History of Knowledge is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the history of knowledge in its broadest sense.

The JHoK Blog serves as a platform to increase the outreach of research by publishing supplementary content related to the journal’s articles.

The editors of the blog encourage journal authors to reflect on their own research practices. The short essays posted here provide complementary perspectives on research approaches, intriguing details that could not be included in the journal articles and anecdotes about the authors’ work as scholars.

If the topic of a post interests you, make sure to check out the author’s article.

Happy reading!

The Team Behind the Blog

The JHoK Blog is currently managed and edited by Hannah Booth. Hannah has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Manchester, where she examined language change across nine centuries of Icelandic. Since gaining her PhD, Hannah has worked as a lecturer and researcher in the UK, Germany and Belgium, and now lives in the Netherlands, where she is a freelance editor and communication coach. In her spare time, she writes a Substack about historical connections between Britain and its North Sea neighbours.

Previous editors of the JHoK Blog were Anna Simon-Stickley (January 2024-January 2025) and Monica Klasing Chen (until December 2023).

To get in touch with the blog’s team, please write to us at jhokjournal@gmail.com

Sharing and Citing Blog Posts

Readers are encouraged to post comments and refer to the JHoK Blog on other social media. However, the blog publishes materials with the consent of authors, who retain the rights to their essays. We thus discourage reposting or appropriating content without consulting the individual authors.

To cite blog posts:

[Author], “[Post title],” Journal for the History of Knowledge Blog, Journal for the History of Knowledge, [Post date], [Link].

The JHoK Blog posts are written by independent contributors. We strive to feature diverse opinions expressed by individual authors, but these are not necessarily shared by the editors of the blog or journal.