Volume 5, number 1 of the Journal of Maltese History (JMH) [ISSN 2077-4338], the annual journal of the Department of History, has just been published. 

JMH is edited by Prof. John Chircop and supported by a high-powered international advisory board. The current issue, the ninth in the series, includes original papers on the Anglo-Maltese community in Monastir (Tunis); theft in 19th century Malta; the rock-cut church of Bormla; medical history on Brucellosis; and a research note entitled 'J.H. Newman’s The Dream of Gerontius and Karm Scerri '.

The Journal of Maltese History is the only fully-refereed, peer-reviewed history journal which provides historians and other scholars with a platform to publish interdisciplinary research on Maltese history, and to facilitate critical debate on issues of a historiographical, theoretical and pedagogical nature.