''Financial History Review'' is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

academic journal published three times a year by

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...

on behalf of European Association for Banking and Financial History (''eabh''). Established in 1994, the journal covers the historical development of banking, finance, and monetary matters. Articles address a broad range of issues of

financial Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and Academic discipline, discipline of money, currency, assets and Liability (financial accounting), liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business administration, Business Admin ...

and monetary history, including technical and theoretical approaches, those derived from cultural and social perspectives, and the interrelations between politics and finance. The European University Institute library together with Cambridge University Press have created a bibliography database for the journal.

History

The academic field of financial and banking history began in the 1930s with early research on British institutions, such as Sir John Clapham's study on the

Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the Kingdom of England, English Government's banker and debt manager, and still one ...

and W. F. Crick and J. E. Wadsworth's research on joint-stock banking. Subsequent research on the early-modern period began in the 1950s/1960s, covering topics such as

bills of exchange A negotiable instrument is a document guaranteeing the payment of a specific amount of money, either on demand, or at a set time, whose payer is usually named on the document. More specifically, it is a document contemplated by or consisting of a ...

, the English financial revolution, and Italian merchant bankers. One challenge to its further development was the growing split between academics in history and in economic history. From the late 1950s, economic history increasingly became a sub-field of economics, rather than a sub-field of history. This change also coincided with the growing use of

quantitative Quantitative may refer to: * Quantitative research, scientific investigation of quantitative properties * Quantitative analysis (disambiguation) * Quantitative verse, a metrical system in poetry * Statistics, also known as quantitative analysis ...

and cliometric analysis. Meanwhile, historians began to combine the study of economic and social phenomena through the methodologies founded by the

Annales School The ''Annales'' school () is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century to stress long-term social history. It is named after its scholarly journal '' Annales. Histoire, S ...

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. This new discipline paved the way for Economic and Social History programs, common at universities in the

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and

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. As such, financial history, since the 1980s, remains a comparatively small sub-field compared to other sub-disciplines, like

economic history Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the Applied economics ...

and

business history Business history is a historiographical field which examines the history of firms, business methods, government regulation and the effects of business on society. It also includes biographies of individual firms, executives, and entrepreneurs ...

. The European Association for Banking and Financial History (''eabh''), founded in 1990, created the ''Financial History Review'' in 1994. The journal's co-founders were Youssef Cassis (Professor of Economic History,

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral research-intensive university and an intergovernmental organisation with juridical personality, established by its founding member states to contribu ...

) and Philip Cottrell (Emeritus Professor of Financial History,

University of Leicester The University of Leicester ( ) is a public university, public research university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park, Leicester, Victoria Park. The university's predecessor, Univ ...

). According to Cassis, the field of financial history has seen rapid development in the past two decades: "Financial history has managed to remain a fairly homogenous discipline." In recent issues, the ''FHR'' has also strived to be international in scope. Financial institutions and multinational banking require significant research into the role of cross-border or transnational histories. Cassis and Cottrell defined financial history broadly, noting overlapping themes between

social history Social history, often called history from below, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history are called social historians. Social history came to prominence in the 1960s, spreading f ...

cultural history Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) helped found cultural history ...

, and

area studies Area studies, also known as regional studies, is an interdisciplinary field of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geographical, national/ federal, or cultural regions. The term exists primarily as a general description for what a ...

: "The present purpose has not been to give voice to some particular sectarian view, but to try and indicate that this journal represents a broad church, within both financial history and history". The journal publishes articles on the interrelations of

finance Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and Academic discipline, discipline of money, currency, assets and Liability (financial accounting), liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business administration, Business Admin ...

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

public policy Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a Group decision-making, decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to Problem solving, solve or address relevant and problematic social issues, guided by a conceptio ...

culture Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...

and

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. The ''eabh'' describes the journal as its official publication. Each volume contains research articles, a reviews section ("The Past Mirror"), and an annual bibliography. According to its inaugural publication, the journal aims to promote closer collaboration between "academic practitioners and the practical world of banking and finance". The articles rely predominantly on descriptive, analytical, and a mix of qualitative and quantitative evidence. The findings have been referenced in media news outlets, such as ''

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''.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal has been indexed by EBSCO,

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, and

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