is a French

academic journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the ...

covering

social history Social history, often called history from below, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history are called social historians. Social history came to prominence in the 1960s, spreading f ...

that was established in 1929 by

Marc Bloch Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch ( ; ; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on France in the Middle ...

and

Lucien Febvre Lucien Paul Victor Febvre ( ; ; 22 July 1878 – 11 September 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the ''Encyclopédie française'' together wit ...

. The journal gave rise to an approach to history known as the ''Annales'' School. The journal began in

Strasbourg Strasbourg ( , ; ; ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est Regions of France, region of Geography of France, eastern France, in the historic region of Alsace. It is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin Departmen ...

as ''Annales d'histoire économique et sociale'', but moved to

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in 1929 and kept the same name from 1929 to 1939. It was successively renamed ''Annales d'histoire sociale'' (1939–1942, 1945), ''Mélanges d'histoire sociale'' (1942–1944), ''Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations'' (1946–1994), and, finally, in 1994.P. Burke, ''The French Historical Revolution. The Annales School 1929–89'', p. 116 n. 2.Hunt, Lynn. "French History in the Last Twenty Years: the Rise and Fall of the Annales Paradigm." Journal of Contemporary History 1986 21(2): 209–224. In 2013 it began publication of an English language edition, with all the articles translated. The scope of topics covered by the journal is wide, but the emphasis is on social history and long-term trends ('' longue durée''), often using quantification and paying special attention to

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and to the intellectual world view of common people, or "mentality" (''mentalité''). Less attention is paid to political, diplomatic, or military history, or to biographies of famous men. Instead, the ''Annales'' focused attention on the synthesizing of historical patterns identified from social, economic, and cultural history, statistics, medical reports, family studies, and even psychoanalysis. It is one of the main French outlets for research in historical anthropology. In 2017 the EHESS formed a partnership with

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to publish both the French and English editions of the ''Annales''. English articles are now published in Firstviews.

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