After a two-year embargo, past copies are made available free access.Authors were encouraged to make their work available open-access at any stage of the publication process.

During 1945-46, as the war ended, the editors all took new posts, respectively at Cambridge, Birmingham and Sheffield, whereupon 'any chance of refloating Leeds Studies in English with the old crew vanished'.

Print distribution, which had previously been undertaken within Leeds's School of English, was handed over in the same year to Abramis Academic Publishing.

[13] Stanley Ellis (1990) Victoria Cooper (2010-13) Helen Price (2011) N. Kıvılcım Yavuz (2013-16) Guest editors included Derek Pearsall (1983); Marie Collins, Joceyln Price and Andrew Hamer (1985); Thorlac Turville-Petre and Margaret Gelling (1987); Geraldine Barnes, Sonya Jensen, Lee Jobling and David Lawton (1989); Clive Upton and Katie Wales (1999); Sarah Carpenter, Pamela King and Peter Meredith (2001); Mary Swan (2006); Janet Burton, William Marx, and Veronica O'Mara (2010); Carole Biggam (2013); and Hannah Bailey, Karl Kinsella, and Daniel Thomas (2017).

Some special issues were Festschriften, honouring Harold Orton (1968, 1999), Arthur C. Cawley (1980-81), Elizabeth Salter (1983), J. E. Cross (1985), Kenneth Cameron (1987), H. Leslie Rogers (1989), Peter Meredith (1998), Meg Twycross (2001), Joyce Hill (2006), and Oliver Pickering (2010).