The Historical Journal

The Historical Journal, formerly known as The Cambridge Historical Journal, is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. It publishes approximately thirty-five articles per year on all aspects of British, European, and world history 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.

The Historical Journal
DisciplineHistory
LanguageEnglish
Edited byRachel Leow, John Gallagher
Publication details
Former name(s)
The Cambridge Historical Journal
History1958–present
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (United Kingdom)
FrequencyQuarterly
0.8 (2022)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Hist. J.
Indexing
ISSN0018-246X (print)
1469-5103 (web)
LCCN62052664
JSTOR0018246X
OCLC no.301165981
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History

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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.[1] 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, as it does to this day.

Its current editors are Dr. Rachel Leow (Faculty of History, Cambridge University) and Dr John Gallagher (University of Leeds).

Scope

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The journal aims to publish around thirty-five articles and book reviews each year.

Abstracting

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The Historical Journal is abstracted by Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Historical Abstracts, Periodicals Index Online, Scopus, and ABELL, among others.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Historical Journal". CLIONAUTA: BLOG DE HISTORIA. 23 November 2007.

Further reading

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  • Clark, G. Kitson. "A Hundred Years of the Teaching of History at Cambridge, 1873–1973." Historical Journal 16#3 (1973): 535–53. online.
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