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- Editors: Professor Emma Griffin University of East Anglia, UK and Dr Sujit Sivasundaram University of Cambridge, UK
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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 younger scholars making a distinguished debut as well as publishing the work of historians of established reputation.
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- Women of Discord – the power of women in Aztec society
- 01 March 2018,
- Women held an extraordinary position in Aztec society. Through their connection to the earth through childbirth, they were believed to wield primal forces...
- The House of Lords as Scotland’s high court, 1707-1875
- 18 January 2018,
- Philip Loft, ‘Litigation, the Anglo-Scottish union and the House of Lords as high court, 1660-1875’, Historical Journal Much ink has been spilled in debates over the union of the Edinburgh and Westminster parliaments in 1707.…...
- Gift giving to guilds in sixteenth and seventeenth century London
- 15 August 2017,
- In this blog Dr Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin discusses her article Gifting cultures and artisanal guilds in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century London which...
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- 2017 Dorothy Ross Award winning article
- 01 Jun 2017,
- Dr Nick Witham's article published in the Historical Journal entitled “Popular History, Postwar Liberalism, and the Role of the Public Intellectual in Richard Hofstadter’s The American Political Tradition,” has won the 2017 Dorothy Ross Award.
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- Mutual Tolerance, Vivid Intellectual Intercourse, and Accountable Decision Making: The Mission of the Central European University
- 20 April 2018,
- Part 3 from the introduction to the virtual special issue from Contemporary European History. We are accustomed to viewing 1989 as the end of state socialism.…...
- Common Beginnings with a Common Purpose: Contemporary European History and the Central European University
- 20 April 2018,
- Part 2 from the introduction to the virtual special issue from Contemporary European History. In 1989 it seemed clear that glasnost in the Soviet Union had set in train unknown but certainly far-reaching changes in the Soviet Union and East Central Europe.…...
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