The MHRA has been a membership organization since its founding in 1918, and while numbers have gone up and down over the years, our members have always come from across the globe, forming a valued international community of scholars. As of 2026, we’re pleased to announce a range of benefits available both to new and current members at no extra cost.

Alongside these is a brand-new online membership platform, which will make the process of taking up and renewing membership much more straightforward. It also means we can now accept debit/credit card payment for membership fees and benefits. (Those who prefer paying the offline way can still do so.) Visit our sign-up page here.

Key benefits at a glance

• Members can request a free print copy of the MHRA Style Guide, that essential companion for students, scholars, and anyone writing or editing academic work (or indeed writing more generally).

• Members can take up to 50% off a selection of recent books published by the MHRA in our annual member sale. The range includes titles across both our monograph imprint, Legenda, and our scholarly edition imprint, Texts and Translations. View the list and the discounts here. To purchase any of these titles at the discounted rate, complete the form and attach it to your membership application or renewal, adding the total cost to the final amount.

• We now offer free online access to an MHRA journal of your choice as part of your membership: Austrian Studies; The Modern Language Review; Portuguese Studies; Slavonic and East European Review; The Yearbook of English Studies. The discounted rate for individual online access to all five MHRA subscription journals still applies. This includes current content via Project Muse; access to archive content via JSTOR is now also available on request.

• Substantial discounts on individual print journal subscriptions are also still available, as is a discounted individual subscription to the print volumes of the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, which celebrates its centenary in 2026.

• Finally, we’ve arranged special discount codes for MHRA members on books published by a selection of other scholarly publishers. We hope to add more to these in future.

Membership costs £15.00 or $25.00 US annually. Postgraduate students are eligible for up to three years’ free membership; please see our membership page for more information.

Full details of all of this can be found on our membership page, and the application form allows you to select your chosen options from the benefits on offer.

Community focus

Joining the MHRA supports the work we do in promoting study and research in the modern humanities through our publishing programme and our various funding schemes. We hope that, as well as enjoying the more tangible benefits on offer, members will also find value in being part of an international community of scholars.

We look forward to welcoming new members, and are happy to receive feedback on how you’d like to see membership work, or other benefits you’d like us to provide. Feel free to send us an email.

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