Subscriptions
Existing members Renew your subscriptions here.
There is a range of subscription types from which to select.
Standard membership includes on-line access to the peer-reviewed journal Historical Metallurgy and the news magazine, The Crucible, each published twice a year. The Crucible is not peer reviewed.
Concessionary members are persons under 18 years or over 65 years of age, and pay a reduced annual subscription fee. They have full access to on-line publications and may include hard copy publications in their subscription at extra cost.
Students are people of any age who are bona fide students to the satisfaction of the HMS Council. They pay the same subscription rates as concessionary members, have full access to on-line publications and may include hard copy publications in their subscription at extra cost.
A patron is a member who pays extra to support the Open Access project. This project provides a fully accessible on-line publication platform without charge to authors. Patron membership automatically includes hard-copy newsletter and journal.
HMS believes research should be free to write about and free to read and the subscriptions contribute to supporting this. It supports high quality publications with full colour images in both the journal and The Crucible.
Where a member opts to receive hard copy of either the journal or the newsletter, or both, the subscription includes a contribution towards the cost of printing and postage. In view of the bank charges incurred for money transfers, a three-year subscription rate is available at three times the annual rate.
Anyone making tax payments to the UK Revenue & Customs (HMRC) can claim 25% of the net value of subscriptions and donations purchased and gift the amount to the Historical Metallurgy Society (at no personal cost). HMS claims it back from HMRC. There is an option for doing this.
You can select your preferred type of subscription by clicking on the appropriate tab below:
Renewing Standard Membership
Period: 365New standard member
Period: 365The standard membership annual subscription fee is £20. It includes access online to the peer-reviewed journal Historical Metallurgy and the news magazine The Crucible, each published twice a year. The Crucible is not peer reviewed.
Where a member opts to receive hard copy version of both the journal and the news magazine, the annual subscription fee is £35.
Where a member opts to receive either the journal or the magazine as hard copy, the annual subscription is £27.50.
A three-year subscription rate is available at three times the annual rate.
Three year membership
Period: 1095A standard subscription lasting 3 years equal to 3 one-year subscription
Renewing Student membership
Period: 365New student member
Period: 365This is for people of any age who are bona fide students to the satisfaction of the Council.
The £10 basic subscription includes access to electronic editions of the peer reviewed HMS Journal and the magazine/newsletter, The Crucible, which is not peer-reviewed.
Where a member opts to receive hard copy versions of both the journal and the newsletter, the annual subscription fee is £30/year.
Where a member opts to receive either the journal or the newsletter in hard copy the annual subscription fee is £20/ year.
A three-year subscription rate is available at three times the annual rate.
Three year student membership
Period: 1095Three years of student membership payable at once.
Renewing Concessionary membership
Period: 365Concessionary members are persons under 18 years or over 65 years of age, and pay the reduced annual subscription fee of £10/year. They have full access to on-line publications which includes the peer-reviewed journal Historical Metallurgy and the news magazine The Crucible, each published twice a year. The Crucible is not peer reviewed.
Where the member opts to receive hard copy versions of both the journal and the newsletter, the annual subscription fee is £30/year.
Where the member opts to receive either the journal or the newsletter in hard copy the annual subscription fee is £20/ year.
A three-year subscription rate is available at three times the annual rate.
New concessionary membership
Period: 365Three year concessionary membership
Period: 1095A concessionary subscription lasting 3 years and equal to 3 one-year subscriptions.
Renewing Patron
Period: 365A patron is a member who pays extra to support the Open Access project. This project provides a full accessible on-line publication platform without charge to authors.
Patron membership automatically includes hard-copy newsletter and journal.
New Patron membership
Period: 365A patron is a member who pays extra to support the Open Access project. This project provides a full accessible on-line publication platform without charge to authors.
Patron membership automatically includes hard-copy newsletter and journal.
Three year patron membership
Period: 1095Donations
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