'A Sacred Band': 100 Years of EHR
A look back over a century of The English Historical Review.
'It is not insular’, there is no preference for certain topics and no secret leaning towards any opinions. At least half the great names are there, and I discern the makings of a Scared band of University Workers'. With this modest encomium the celebrated nineteenth- century historian Lord Acton summed up the first issue of the English Historical Review, which celebrated its centenary this year. The proliferation of specialist history journals since Mandell Creighton and York Poewll persuaded C.J.Longman to publish the first volume in 1886. - in particular those breaking new ground in social and cultural history since the Second World War (notably Past and Present and the French Annales)- has tended to obscure how innovative a step the launch of EHR was.
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