The Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) is a United Kingdom–based international organisation that aims to encourage and promote advanced study and research of humanities. It is most notable for producing the MHRA Style Guide.
History The MHRA was founded in 1918 in Christ's College, Cambridge. 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 chair of the MHRA is Professor Derek Connon of Swansea University.
Publications As well as the MHRA Style Guide, and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, the MHRA publishes six scholarly journals: The Modern Language Review Austrian Studies Portuguese Studies The Slavonic and East European Review The Yearbook of English Studies Working Papers in the Humanities
and a number of book series: Legenda MHRA Critical Texts MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations MHRA Jewelled Tortoise MHRA European Translations MHRA New Translations MHRA Texts & Dissertations Publications of the MHRA MHRA Bibliographies
Further reading Wells, David A. 2003. "The Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA)". Diogenes 50 (2): 130–135.
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