Journal of Contemporary History
20th Century History | British History | Historiography/Research and Writing about History
"An excellent international publication" International Herald Tribune
"The Journal of Contemporary History is one of the outstanding learned journals of history in the English-speaking world." Times Literary Supplement
The Journal of Contemporary History is an international forum for the analysis of twentieth-century history. Now over fifty years old, the journal has long been established as essential reading for all scholars in contemporary European and international history.
The Journal of Contemporary History publishes articles covering a broad range of historical approaches including social, economic, political, diplomatic, intellectual and cultural. It is noted both for its intellectual rigour and the accessible style of its contributions.
To learn more about the journal, please see co-editor Richard J. Evans' 50th anniversary issue article The Journal of History contemporary History and its Editors, which explores the history of the journal and its founding editors.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
INDIVIDUAL BOOK REVIEWS
JCH includes reviews of individual books, in addition to review articles covering a range of books within the compass of a single critical essay. The Review Editors are Dr Luc-Andre Brunet, of The Open University, UK, and Dr Emma Lundin, of the Malmö University, Sweden, as Joint Review Editors. They commission review articles and individual reviews individual reviews as well as review articles.
Publishers please send books for review and postal marketing material to:
Journal of Contemporary History Book Reviews,
Toynbee Editorial Services Ltd,
Lings,
Great Easton,
Essex
CM6 2HH,
UK
E-marketing materials by email to: reviews@jch.org.uk.
Potential reviewers please email the Joint Reviews Editors directly: reviews@jch.org.uk.
All issues of the Journal of Contemporary History are available to browse online.
The Journal of Contemporary History (JCH) is a quarterly peer-reviewed international journal publishing articles and book reviews on twentieth-century history (post-1930), covering a broad range of historical approaches including social, economic, political, diplomatic, intellectual and cultural. Now over forty years old, the journal has long been established as essential reading for all scholars in contemporary European and international history. It is noted both for its intellectual rigour and the accessible style of its contributions.
Publishers please send books for review and postal marketing material to:
Journal of Contemporary History Book Reviews,
Toynbee Editorial Services Ltd,
Lings,
Great Easton,
Essex
CM6 2HH,
UK
E-marketing materials by email to: reviews@jch.org.uk.
Richard J Evans | University of Cambridge, UK |
Mary Neuburger | University of Texas, USA |
Luc-Andre Brunet | The Open University, UK |
Emma Lundin | Malmö University, Sweden |
Jean Allman | Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
Paul Betts | University of Oxford, UK |
Andrea Chiampan | University of Toronto, Canada |
Celia Donert | University of Cambridge, UK |
Juliane Fürst | University of Bristol, UK |
Simon Hall | University of Leeds, UK |
Violetta Hionidou | Newcastle University, UK |
Marko Hoare | Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Julian Jackson | Queen Mary, University of London, UK |
Claudia Kedar | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
Alexander Keese | Université de Genève, Switzerland |
Rana Mitter | University of Oxford, UK |
Martina Steber | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany |
Mary Vincent | University of Sheffield, UK |
Lori Watt | Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
Walter Laqueur | Institute of Contemporary History, UK |
George L Mosse | University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
Jeremy Toynbee | Freelance Editioral Office, UK |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.