Economic History Review
M. M. Postan © The Master and Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge
The Economic History Review (EHR) was founded in 1927 under the auspices of the Economic History Society (EHS), and flourished under the editorship of M. M. Postan, providing a broad coverage of themes in both economic and social history. By the 1970s, in line with the general growth of the subject, it had over 5,000 individual and institutional subscribers, but with the closure and merger of economic history departments (despite the increasing acceptance of many of the ideas of economic history into the mainstream of the discipline) its circulation has subsequently declined.
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- Publisher:
- Blackwell Publishing
- Website:
- http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp
- Historians:
- Lipson, Ephraim
Postan, Michael Moissey
Power, Eileen
Tawney, Richard Henry - Institutions:
- Economic History Society
- Themes:
- Economic history
Social history
Other Articles
- The Study of Economic History: Collected Inaugural Lectures 1893–1970, ed. N. B. Harte (London, 1971)
- Roger E. Backhouse, 'The future of the history of economic thought in Britain', History of Political Economy, 34, Annual supplement (2002), 79–97
- Roger E. Backhouse, 'History of economics, economics and economic history in Britain 1824–2000', History of Economic Thought, 11, 1 (2004), 107–27
- Maxine Berg, 'The first women economic historians', Economic History Review, 45, 2 (1992), 308–29
- D. C. Coleman, 'History, economic history and the numbers game', Historical Journal, 38, 3 (1995), 635–46
