The Historical Journal is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 published by Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

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. It publishes approximately thirty-five articles per year on all aspects of British

History of the British Isles

The history of the British Isles has witnessed intermittent periods of competition and cooperation between the people that occupy the various parts of Great Britain, Ireland, and the smaller adjacent islands, which together make up the British Isles, as well as with France, Germany, the Low...

, European

History of Europe

History of Europe describes the history of humans inhabiting the European continent since it was first populated in prehistoric times to present, with the first human settlement between 45,000 and 25,000 BC.-Overview:...

, and world history

World History

World History, Global History or Transnational history is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines history from a global perspective...

 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 a debut in the historical profession.

The journal was originally founded in 1923 as The Cambridge Historical Journal and obtained its present title in 1958. 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

University of Cambridge

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, as it does to this day. Its current editors are Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

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) and Julian Hoppit (University College London

University College London

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).