JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY

The Journal of Historical Sociology (JHS) was founded in 1988 on the conviction that historical and social studies have a common subject-matter. We welcome articles that contribute to the historically-grounded understanding of social and cultural phenomena, whatever their disciplinary provenance or theoretical standpoint. We are particularly interested in topics that are historically relevant to contemporary social, cultural, political and economic urgencies. We are open as to topic, period, and place, and seek to be as international as possible in both the content and the authorship of articles. Alongside articles, we carry occasional essays on Schools and Scholars and of Review and Commentary, and shorter pieces in our Issues and Agendas section which are deliberately designed to provoke. We are also open to non-conventional creative academic writing. A typical JHS article will contain little by way of extended literature review (which we are prone to edit out), will say something substantial and new about its empirical subject-matter, will be aware of the theoretical implications of its topic without turning into an abstruse discussion of pure theory, and will be of interest to readers beyond a specialist geographical or disciplinary audience.