A subsequent meeting was called of persons interested in Jamaican history, and they agreed to elect Noël B. Livingston as president.
[1] B. W. Higman has commented that the establishment of the society in 1943 "may be seen as part of the explosion of expressive culture that occurred in the island in the 1930s, associated with the movement towards self-government.
[5] In the years before the University College of the West Indies in 1948, the society was dominated by the local and expatriate middle class of Jamaica.
Although amateur history returned to its pages, the new editor was David Buisseret, an English academic at UWI.
By the 1980s, the amateur contribution had declined yet again, but this "was to some extent balanced by history-writing for the society's Bulletin as well as for newspapers and popular magazines.