Editorial

Abstract

This issue marks a new departure for Past and Present. As subscribers will have noticed, you are receiving the first in our series of Past and Present Supplements with the journal, a volume entitled The Art of Survival: Essays in Honour of Olwen Hufton. This collection is free of charge to all subscribers to the journal. Why have we done this? For many years we have published the Past and Present Publications series alongside the journal, and this has comprised monographs, translations, conference proceedings and collections of essays. These are tough times for publishers, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to publish collections of essays that we wanted to produce. However, rather than cutting back our publications, we have decided to change instead the way we publish. The book series will continue but will focus on book-length studies. With the agreement of Oxford Journals, we decided to set up in addition a Supplements series that will be a new form of publication, combining the best of journal and book publication. We intend to produce one volume every year, which will be sent out free to subscribers but which can also be purchased individually by non-subscribers. This will also be available on line and will be, like the journal, fully searchable.