The Historical Association is pleased to announce a new editorial team of the journal History. The Humanities Department of Northumbria University will be hosting an outstanding group of academics and scholars as the new commissioners and editors of the journal which was founded in 1912.

Becky Sullivan, CEO of the Historical Association: “The journal History is one of the most respected elements of the HA’s output and one of the oldest. We are our excited to see the new developments that the team from Northumbria University are planning to make to reflect the changes and challenges that are present in academia today, while continuing to grow the journal’s reputation and readership.”

Daniel Laqua (incoming editor-in-chief and the academic leading the Northumbria team): “We are excited about taking on the editorship of History and of developing its content, in a way that combines publishing specialist research with a commitment to providing a forum for debate on history and its different roles. We are enthusiastic about the connection with the HA and the potential to engage with a wider audience through this link. 

Our approach to preparing our editorship of History has been highly collaborative, involving colleagues from different specialisms and career stages. We believe that this will enable us to meet our aim of maintaining and developing the thematic, chronological and geographical range of the journal.” 

The Historical Association is committed to working with a broad range of experts, academics researchers, practitioners, students and lovers of history to ensure that the absolute best of historical scholarship is able to reach the widest possible audiences, ensuring a continuation of top-quality history education at all levels for all abilities. The team at Northumbria University are now part of the key aim and ambitions. 

Charlotte Alston, Head of Humanities (the host department): “We are really delighted to be hosting History, one of the longest running English-language history journals, in the Department of Humanities. We are looking forward to seeing all the exciting developments that the editorial team has planned for the journal, and to strengthening our relationship with the Historical Association.” 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our previous editorial teams for all their work.