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Editorial, The English Historical Review, Volume 138, Issue 592, June 2023, Pages 377–378, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead155
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‘It is not insular, there is no preference for certain topics and no secret leaning towards any opinions’.1 When Lord Acton wrote this about The English Historical Review in January 1886, the journal’s first issue had just come out. Much has changed since then, but the principles according to which the EHR, the oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world, was founded still apply. Indeed, what is English about the EHR is first and foremost the language in which it is written. We are committed to publishing the best work in the field of history—work that is of interest to a wide range of readers because of its quality, scope and significance.
We publish original and exciting research relating to all parts of the world and all forms of historical inquiry from the late classical era onwards. We do not specialise in any area and do not focus on any particular approach. We do, however, require our authors to combine in-depth analysis of primary sources with a wide-ranging appreciation of the secondary literature. EHR articles, then, aim to relate their specific conclusions to broader questions that matter across different historiographical fields, periods or methodologies.
