The English Historical Review is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1886 and published by Oxford University Press (formerly Longman). It publishes articles on all aspects of history – British, European, and world history – since the classical era. It is the oldest surviving English language academic journal in the discipline of history.
Six issues are published each year, and typically include four articles from a broad chronological range (roughly, medieval, early modern, modern and twentieth century) and around sixty book reviews. Review Articles are commissioned by the editors. A summary of international periodical literature published in the previous twelve months is also provided, and an annual summary of editions, reference works and other materials of interest to scholars is also produced.
The journal was established in 1886 by John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Regius professor of modern history at Cambridge, and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. The first editor was Mandell Creighton. The current editors are Nandini Chatterjee, Stephen Conway, Peter Marshall, Jan Rüger, Hannah Skoda, and Alice Taylor.
List of editors
Editors of The English Historical Review: 1886–1891: Mandell Creighton 1891–1894: Samuel Rawson Gardiner, assisted by Reginald Lane Poole 1895–1901: S. R. Gardiner and Reginald Lane Poole 1902–1920: Reginald Lane Poole, assisted (1920) by George Norman Clark 1921–1925: G. N. Clark assisted (1924-5) by E. Stanley Cohn 1926: G. N. Clark and Charles William Previté-Orton 1927–1938: C. W. Previté-Orton 1938–1939: C. W. Previté-Orton and G. N. Clark 1939–1958: John Goronwy Edwards and Richard Pares 1958–1959: J. G. Edwards and Denys Hay 1959–1965: Denys Hay 1965–1967: John Michael Wallace-Hadrill 1967–1974: J. M. Wallace-Hadrill and John Morris Roberts 1974–1978: J. M. Roberts and George Arthur Holmes 1978–1981: G. A. Holmes and Angus Donald Macintyre 1982–1986: A. D. Macintyre and Penry Herbert Williams 1986–1990: P. H. Williams and Robert John Weston Evans 1991–1995: R. J. W. Evans and John Maddicott 1996–1999: J. H. Maddicott and John Stevenson 1999–2001: J. H. Maddicott and Jean Dunbabin 2001: Jean Dunbabin and John Rowlatt 2001–2004: Jean Dunbabin and George W. Bernard 2004–2006: G. W. Bernard and Philip Waller 2007–2012: G. W Bernard and Martin Conway 2012–2013: Martin Conway and Catherine Holmes 2013–2016: Martin Conway, Catherine Holmes, and Peter Marshall 2017–?: Catherine Holmes, Peter Marshall, Stephen Conway, and Hannah Skoda