Modern Humanities Research Association
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The Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) is a British
-based international organization that aims to encourage and promote advanced study and research of humanities
. It is most notable for producing the MHRA Style Guide
.
The MHRA was founded in 1918 in Christ’s College
, Cambridge
. After an early change of name to MHRA in 1918, the unincorporated charity became an incorporated company with the same name on 2 October 1997. Its declared aim is to encourage and promote advanced study and research in the field of the modern humanities
, which include the modern and medieval European languages, literatures and cultures.The current President is Dame Gillian Beer of Cambridge University.
As well as the MHRA Style Guide, the MHRA publishes seven scholarly journals:
and book series:
Great Britain
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-based international organization that aims to encourage and promote advanced study and research of humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
. It is most notable for producing the MHRA Style Guide
MHRA Style Guide
The MHRA Style Guide: A Handbook for Authors, Editors, and Writers of Theses is an academic style guide published by the Modern Humanities Research Association and most widely used in the arts and humanities in the United Kingdom, where the MHRA is based...
.
The MHRA was founded in 1918 in Christ’s College
Christ's College, Cambridge
Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.With a reputation for high academic standards, Christ's College averaged top place in the Tompkins Table from 1980-2000 . In 2011, Christ's was placed sixth.-College history:...
, Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
. After an early change of name to MHRA in 1918, the unincorporated charity became an incorporated company with the same name on 2 October 1997. Its declared aim is to encourage and promote advanced study and research in the field of the modern humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
, which include the modern and medieval European languages, literatures and cultures.The current President is Dame Gillian Beer of Cambridge University.
As well as the MHRA Style Guide, the MHRA publishes seven scholarly journals:
- The Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature
- Modern Language ReviewModern Language ReviewModern Language Review is the journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association . It is one of the oldest journals in the field of modern languages. Founded in 1905, it has published more than 3,000 articles and 20,000 book reviews....
- Austrian Studies
- Portuguese Studies
- The Slavonic and East European ReviewThe Slavonic and East European ReviewThe Slavonic and East European Review , the journal of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, is an international peer-reviewed multidisciplinary academic journal in the fields of social sciences and humanities founded in...
- The Yearbook of English Studies
- The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies
and book series:
- Publications of the MHRA
- MHRA Texts & Dissertations
- MHRA Bibliographies
- MHRA Critical Texts
- MHRA European Translations
- MHRA New Translations
- MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations