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The Historical Journal continues to publish papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century. The best contemporary scholarship is represented. Contributions come from all parts of the world. The journal aims to publish some thirty-five articles and communications each year and to review recent historical literature, mainly in the form of historiographical reviews and review articles. The journal provides a forum for early career scholars making a distinguished debut as well as publishing the work of historians of established reputation.
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- ‘I had enough last war’: Remembering the First World War during the Second World War
- 03 April 2019,
- My article for the Historical Journal examines how the memory of the First World War shaped morale at the start of the Second World War.
- Women Investors and the Virginia Company in the Early Seventeenth Century
- 26 March 2019,
- Unfolding the histories of women who invested in the Virginia Company was the starting-point of this research, but as I began tracing Romney and Hueriblock...
- On Not Recognizing Kadu: Russian place naming in the Pacific Islands, 1804–1830
- 25 March 2019,
- Our umbrella theme is the poorly known contributions of early nineteenth-century Russian navigators and mapmakers to global cartographic knowledge of the far-flung...
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- Mobile armed mobs in deadly riots
- 16 April 2019,
- Experts on ethnic riots agree that the ethnic composition of localities affects their susceptibility to violence. They are however divided on which are more...
- ‘I had enough last war’: Remembering the First World War during the Second World War
- 03 April 2019,
- My article for the Historical Journal examines how the memory of the First World War shaped morale at the start of the Second World War.
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