History and Technology is a world-leading international forum for research on technology in history. Technology – as knowledge, practice, and material resource – has been a key site for constituting the human experience. It has been central to the making and transformation of societies and cultures, on a local and transnational scale, in the pre-modern and modern eras. The journal publishes historical contributions on any aspect of technology in any period in history but encourages research that critically analyses the concept of technology while emphasizing its importance for a better understanding of history.
The journal is also engaged in a reflexive encounter with the ways in which history of technology is written, regarding choices of theory, scale, register, and whose voices may count as authoritative. History and Technology seeks to stimulate dialogue between history of technology and allied fields in history and the humanities, with the aim of exploring common issues in explanation, interpretation, and methodology. Truly international in scope, the journal places a high value on high-quality contributions from scholars who would not normally publish in the English language.
In addition to individual research articles, History and Technology features four types of analytic reflections. These are:
• Special Issue: the journal intermittently publishes issues with three or more articles by different authors organized by a guest editor. Special issues expose groundbreaking opportunities in historiography. Special Issues should be discussed with the Editors for approval.
• Forum: these contributions bring together several scholars, from different disciplinary vantage points, to assess an individual work of scholarship. The goal of a forum is to have a critical exchange, bringing together the author and diverse respondents to constructively examine common concerns in explanation or intellectual framing within history of technology and other scholarly fields.
• Historiographic, Field, or Thematic Essay: Reviews or intellectual histories of literatures, disciplines, fields, themes, or guiding constructs in scholarship. These offer critical reflection on a broad sweep of intellectual activity and engage common concerns in explanation within history of technology and other scholarly fields. Contributions are encouraged from scholars in all disciplines.
• Images, Technology, and History: Focuses on images as historical evidence. These papers analyze images relating to technology, with two aims: To integrate more fully our understanding of technology into broader historical accounts and to reflect on historical method.
(Please consult the editors for guidance on length and format for each of these special features).
Peer Review Policy
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous and rapid peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized. The journal uses Editorial Manager to manage the peer-review process while submissions can be made online on Submission Portal.
Publishing Ethics The Journal adheres to the highest standards of publishing ethics, with rigorous processes in place to ensure this is achieved. Taylor & Francis is a member of
Committee of Publications Ethics (COPE) and utilises
CrossCheck for all Journals. More information on our ethical standards and policies can be found here:
http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/ethics-for-authors/ The Journal has an appeals and complaints policy which can be viewed here:
https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/peer-review-appeals-and-complaints-from-authors/. Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
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