... though I'm a bit worried about the current situation if it's really true that the proportion of women authors in Transactions of #RoyalHistSoc was at its highest in the 1920s.

If true, then this starkly demonstrates the implicit bias (and preference for 'people like us') operating in closed-community journal systems (as #RoyalHistSoc had until allowing direct submissions in 2021)

#histodons #bookhistodon

#histodons interested in the history of #journal publishing in our discipline might enjoy these thoughts on 150 years of Transactions of the #RoyalHistSoc
https://blog.royalhistsoc.org/2022/11/17/150-years-of-transactions-of-the-royal-historical-society-1872-2022/