Historical Research

First published in 1923, Historical Research (formerly the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research) is a leading journal for history. It was relaunched in 2009 in a larger format with more pages per volume to meet the demand for space.

• Historical Research publishes the work of established scholars and assists new researchers with their first articles.
• Its articles cover a wide geographical and temporal span: from Britain to the Far East; from the early middle ages to the 20th century.
• It encourages the submission of articles from a variety of approaches, including social, political, urban, intellectual and cultural history.
• The journal reserves space for the publication of important short notes and documents.
• Articles are usually up to 14,000 words including references, but longer articles are published in exceptional circumstances.
• Online production tracking is now available for authors through Wiley-Blackwell's Author Services.

Historical Research is edited by Professor Miles Taylor, director of the IHR, and published by Wiley-Blackwell. See the Wiley-Blackwell website for information about pricing and subscription, to view individual articles or to search the journal's archives.

Early View – fast-track publication

Historical Research was one of the first history journals to offer publication online with our Early View facility. This allows us to publish fully edited and proofed articles within a year of acceptance. The articles are then available to all our journal subscribers and to one-off purchasers and are fully searchable, citeable and admissible for formal research evaluation processes. These pages are lively, active and constantly being updated. RSS feeds are available and notice of abstracts is given on the IHR digital blog and our Twitter feed.

Online archive

The entire run of back issues has been digitised and is now available online on the Historical Research/Wiley-Blackwell web pages.

Free content

Sample issues, articles of special interest and selected highlights are made freely available from time to time. 

New researchers/First time authors

If you are studying for a PhD, or have just completed one, and you are thinking of publishing your first article, we would be delighted to hear from you. The IHR is committed to helping new researchers at the start of their careers, and the journal's editors will ensure that your first experience of submitting an article for peer review is a happy and productive one.

This commitment to developing the skills and careers of new researchers is enshrined in the IHR's Pollard Prize. The prize, for the best paper delivered at an IHR seminar, is awarded annually in July and is open to postgraduates or those within one year of completing a doctorate. In addition to £200 of Blackwell books, the winner is offered the chance to publish his or her paper in Historical Research. Runners up also receive a selection of Blackwell books, and may be offered publication in the journal (at the discretion of the editor).

Historical Research also publishes winners of The Julian Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History and The Sir John Neale Prize in Tudor History.

Historical Research news

Alex Watson's and Patrick Porter's article  'Bereaved and aggrieved: combat motivation and the ideology of sacrifice in the First World War' (Historical Research, vol. lxxxiii, no. 219) is one of the scholarly articles presented for debate in Wiley-Blackwell's virtual conference on The Changing Face of War (14-20 Nov. 2011).

The winner of the 2011 Pollard Prize is Siobhan Talbott with 'British commercial interests on the French Atlantic coast, c.1560-1713 (a paper originally given at the Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, 1500-1800 seminar). The article will appear in Historical Research in 2012.

Virtual issues

Historical Research has produced a special multimedia virtual issue in conjunction with the Anglo-American Conference of Historians 2011, based on the theme of Health in History. The issue features podcasts of lectures from the conference, along with key articles from past issues of Historical Research.