''The English Historical Review'' is a bimonthly

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that was established in 1886 and published by

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(formerly

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). It publishes articles on all aspects of history – British, European, and world history – since the classical era. It is the oldest surviving

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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

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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 John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He is best remembered for the remark he w ...

, Regius professor of modern history at

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, and a

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. The first editor was

Mandell Creighton Mandell Creighton (; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Di ...

. The current editors are Nandini Chatterjee, Stephen Conway,

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, Jan Rüger, Hannah Skoda, and Alice Taylor.

List of editors

Editors of ''The English Historical Review'': * 1886–1891:

* 1891–1894:

Samuel Rawson Gardiner Samuel Rawson Gardiner (4 March 1829 – 24 February 1902) was an English historian, who specialized in 17th-century English history as a prominent foundational historian of the Puritan revolution and the English Civil War. Life The son of ...

, 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 Sir George Norman Clark, (27 February 1890 – 6 February 1979) was an English historian, academic and British Army officer. He was the Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford from 1931 to 1943 and the Regius Profes ...

* 1921–1925: G. N. Clark assisted (1924-5) by E. Stanley Cohn * 1926: G. N. Clark and

Charles William Previté-Orton Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...

* 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 John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, (29 September 1916 – 3 November 1985) was a senior academic and one of the foremost historians of the early Merovingian period. Wallace-Hadrill was born on 29 September 1916 in Bromsgrove, where his father ...

* 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 Robert John Weston Evans (born 7 October 1943) is a British historian, whose speciality is the post-medieval history of Central and Eastern Europe. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and later at Jesus College, Cambridge.''Who's ...

* 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 George W. Bernard is a British historian who specializes in the reign of King Henry VIII, specifically the English Reformation of the 1530s – both in England and globally – and the "reign" of Anne Boleyn. He is most famous for his argumen ...

* 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

* 2017–?: Catherine Holmes,

, Stephen Conway, and Hannah Skoda

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:English Historical Review, The 1886 establishments in England English-language journals History journals Bimonthly journals Oxford University Press academic journals Publications established in 1886

List of editors

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