Historical Periodicals in Britain and the United States Available to Purchase

The change in editorial direction of the English Historical Review consequent on the death of Richard Pares a year ago, offers a vantage point from which to consider the present situation of historical periodicals in Britain and the United States of America. There are, of course, many periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic that contain articles on historical themes, and many of them of professional standard—often indeed by professional historians. One has only to think of G. P. Gooch's articles on Marie Antoinette in The Contemporary Review two or three years ago, brilliant vignettes by the doyen of British historians. And what is true of The Contemporary Review is also true of The Fortnightly, of The Twentieth Century (the old Nineteenth Century) and of many other British and American periodicals.