The Southern African Historical Society is an active network for communication among professional historians located throughout the subcontinental region and for the larger community of scholars whose research interests are located here.  It is organisational home for the accredited South African Historical Journal published four times each year.

Since 1967, the Society has held biennial conferences that have served as regular benchmarks for the quality and scope of academic historical scholarship in the region. In 2009, it was held at the Sunnyside campus of Unisa in Tshwane/Pretoria; in 2011, it will be held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The Council of SAHS is seeking to create new opportunities and exchanges for young and emerging historians and more active inter-regional collaborations.

We welcome members from allied disciplines and professions, postr-graduate students for 2010.

The South African Historical Journal has appeared regularly since 1969 and has become a permanent record of developments in professional southern African historiography. Some subjects have been enduring, such as the social role of historians, the decline of history in universities and schools, the identification of 'trends', censorship and 'relevance'. Other themes - such as pre-colonial African societies, radical historiography, culture and ideology, visual and environmental history - have reflected more closely the broader changes and challenges of South African society over the years.

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