('Historical Journal for Finland') is a

Swedish-language Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic language spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, the fourth most spoken Germanic language and the first among any other of its type in the Nordic countr ...

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

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, ...

which has been published by the ('Historical society') since 1916. It was founded in 1916 by , who had founded the ('Swedish students' historical society', which later became ) two years earlier. He served as the journal's editor until 1924. With support for translation from the Delegation for the Promotion of Swedish Literature, managed by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, the journal is now also a forum for Finnish-speaking historians. The journal is published four times a year and has approximately 550 subscribers, primarily from Finland, the

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, and the

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. Each paper is reviewed by two external

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. is available on the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies' website as an Open Access publication () as of the 1990 issues. New editions are published on HTF DIGITALT with a one-year delay.

Editors-in-chief

* 1916–1924 * 1925–1969 * 1970–1981

Jarl Gallén Jarl Wilhelm Erik Gallén (23 May 1908 – 27 March 1990) was a Finland, Finnish historian and Swedish-speaking professor in history at Helsinki University from 1964 to 1975. Biography Gallén was born in Helsinki in 1908. He had an interest ...

* 1982–2000 Max Engman * 2001–2016 Lars-Folke Landgrén * 2017– Jennica Thylin-Klaus

References

External links

* History of Finland Swedish-language journals Quarterly journals Delayed open access journals European history journals {{hist-journal-stub