''The Economic History Review'' is a peer-reviewed

history journal A history journal is an academic serial publication designed to present new scholarship on a historical subject, usually a subfield of history, with articles generally being subjected to peer review. History and development The historical journal, ...

published quarterly by

Wiley-Blackwell Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...

on behalf of the

Economic History Society The Economic History Society (EHS) is a learned society that was established at the London School of Economics in 1926 to support the research and teaching of economic history in the United Kingdom and internationally. The society also acts as a ...

. It was established in 1927 by

Eileen Power Eileen Edna Le Poer Power (9 January 18898 August 1940) was a British economic historian and medievalist. Early life and education Eileen Power was the eldest daughter of a stockbroker and was born at Altrincham, Cheshire (now part of Great ...

and is currently edited by Sara Horrell, Jaime Reis and Patrick Wallis. Its first editors were E. Lipson and R. H. Tawney and other previous editors include M. M. Postan, H. J. Habbakuk, Max Hartwell (1960–1968),

Christopher Dyer Christopher Charles Dyer CBE FBA (born 1944) is Leverhulme Emeritus Professor of Regional and Local History and director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester, England. He was appointed Commander of the Order ...

, Nicholas Crafts, John Hatcher, Richard Smith,

Jane Humphries Katherine Jane Humphries, CBE FBA (born 9 November 1948), is a Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford with the Title of Distinction of professor of economic history. Her research interest has been in economic growth and development ...

, Steve Hindle and Phillipp Schofield.

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The lead editors are John Turner, Giovanni Federico and Tirthankar Roy and the editorial board counts 21 other editors including Jane Humphries and Debin Ma from the University of Oxford, Sara Horrell, Max-Stephan Schulze and Patrick Wallis from the London School of Economics. The journal has published 75 volumes usually composed of 4 annual issues.

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It is considered one of the best economic history journals along with the

Journal of Economic History ''The Journal of Economic History'' is an academic journal of economic history which has been published since 1941. Many of its articles are quantitative, often following the formal approaches that have been called cliometrics or the new econo ...

Explorations in Economic History ''Explorations in Economic History'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of quantitative economic history. It follows the quantitative or formal approaches that have been called cliometrics or the new economic history, applied to any place and ti ...

and the

European Review of Economic History The ''European Review of Economic History'' is an international peer-reviewed academic journal published three times per year. It was formerly edited by Cambridge University Press and is currently edited by Oxford University Press. It is edited i ...

. RePEc has ranked the journal 383rd out of 2982 economics journals. Its 2021 impact factor was 2.487.

Notable articles

The Imperialism of Free Trade "The Imperialism of Free Trade" is an academic article by John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson first published in '' The Economic History Review'' in 1953. The article was influential in the debate concerning the causes of British imperial expansi ...

" by

Ronald Robinson Ronald "Robbie" Edward Robinson, FBA (3 September 1920 – 19 June 1999) was a distinguished historian of the British Empire who between 1971 and 1987 held the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford. After schoo ...

and John Gallagher, published in the August 1953 edition.

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