''The Historical Journal'', formerly known as ''The Cambridge Historical Journal'', is a
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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published by
Cambridge University Press
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. It publishes approximately thirty-five articles per year on all aspects of
British
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,
European, and
world history
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since the fifteenth century. In addition, each issue contains numerous review articles covering a wide range of historical literature. Contributing authors include historians of established academic reputation as well as younger scholars making their debut in the historical profession.
History
The journal was founded in 1923 as ''The Cambridge Historical Journal'' by
Harold Temperley. It obtained its present title in 1958 when the journal editors decided to adopt a more global perspective.
Despite choosing to omit the Cambridge label from the latter date, it remained under the editorial leadership of the History Faculty at the
University of Cambridge
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, as it does to this day.
Its current
editors
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are Dr.
Rachel Leow (Faculty of History, Cambridge University) and Dr John Gallagher (University of Leeds).
Scope
The journal aims to publish around thirty-five articles and book reviews each year.
Abstracting
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,
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, Periodicals Index Online,
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, and
ABELL, among others.
See also
*
Historiography
Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline. By extension, the term ":wikt:historiography, historiography" is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiog ...
*
Historiography of the United Kingdom
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References
Further reading
* Clark, G. Kitson. "A Hundred Years of the Teaching of History at Cambridge, 1873–1973." ''Historical Journal'' 16#3 (1973): 535–53
online
External links
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