Aims & Scope

HPJ publishes historical research that offers a clear empirical, interpretive, historiographical or methodological contribution.

Scope

• Political, social, economic and cultural history
• Intellectual, religious and legal history
• Gender, labour, family and everyday life
• Environmental, medical and scientific history
• Local, regional, national and global history
• Colonial, postcolonial and transnational studies
• Oral history, memory and public history
• Archives, manuscripts and material culture
• Historiography and historical theory
• Digital history, historical GIS and quantitative methods
• Heritage, museums and the uses of the past
• Interdisciplinary historical research

Uncritical source summaries, commemorative pieces without a research argument and unsupported claims about the past are outside scope.