''Northern History'' is an

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of the history of the northern counties of England. It was first published in 1966 under the auspices of the School of History,

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. It is indexed by

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. The journal's founding editor was G. C. F. Forster, and the first issue was 'facilitated by a guarantee from the publications fund of the University of Leeds, and by donations from local firms and individuals'. Forster retired from the journal after the publication of issue 53.2.Malcolm Chase, 'Gordon Colin Fawcett Forster (1928–2017)', ''Yorkshire Archaeological Journal'', 90 (2018), 223-24, . In 1997, S. J. D. Green (Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds) joined as co-editor. In 2016, the Editorial team changed to: Green,

Julia Barrow Julia Steuart Barrow, (born 5 December 1956) is an English historian and academic, who specialises in medieval and ecclesiastical history. Since 2012, she has been Professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds and previously served (2 ...

FBA (Professor in Medieval Studies) and Stephen Alford (Professor of Early Modern British History). From September 2022 to March 2024, the editor was Julia Barrow. From March 2024, the editors are Julia Barrow and Peter Maw (Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century History at the University of Leeds). The journal is currently published by Routledge. The journal's purpose is to publish scholarly work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England:

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish ...

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Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

Northumberland Northumberland ( ) is a ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North East England, on the Anglo-Scottish border, border with Scotland. It is bordered by the North Sea to the east, Tyne and Wear and County Durham to the south, Cumb ...

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and

Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ) is an area of Northern England which was History of Yorkshire, historically a county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its county town, the ...

. Since it was launched it has always been a refereed journal, attracting articles on Northern subjects from historians in many parts of the world. The journal runs the annual 'Gordon Forster Essay Prize'.

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